Period 4: Global Wars to Globalization (All Dates Reviewer)
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June 28, 1914
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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July 23, 1914
Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia
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July 28, 1914
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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July 29, 1914
Russia begins mobilization
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August 1, 1914
Germany declares war on Russia
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August 3, 1914
Germany declares war on France
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August 26–30, 1914
Germans defeat Russians at Tannenberg
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September 5–10, 1914
First Battle of the Marne
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1914
Completion of the Panama Canal
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April 25, 1915
Gallipoli campaign begins
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May 7, 1915
Sinking of the Lusitania
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February 21, 1915
Germans begin attack on Verdun
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July 1, 1916
British launch attack at the Somme
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January 19, 1917
Zimmermann Telegram
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February 1, 1917
Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
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December 3, 1917
Bolsheviks sign armistice with Germany
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April 6, 1917
United States declares war on Germany
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February 1917
Provisional Government established in Russia
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November 1917
Bolshevik seizure of power
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1918
Worldwide influenza outbreak
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1918
Female suffrage begins in Great Britain
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November 10, 1918
Germany Republic established after abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II
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1918
Armistice brings the war to a close
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1919
Treaty of Versailles
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1919
Mussolini organizes first Fascist party
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1919
Weimar Constitution established
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1920
Formation of Communist International
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1922
Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
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1923
German hyperinflation
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1923
Beer Hall Putsch
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1924
Death of Lenin
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1924
Dawes Plan
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1925
Treaty of Lucarno
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1928
First Soviet Five-Year Plan
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1929
Beginning of collectivized farms in Soviet Union
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1929
Lateran Accord between Mussolini and the Catholic Church
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1929
Young Plan
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1929
Stock market crash
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1930
Nazis make huge electoral gains
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1931
Bank failures
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1932
Hindenburg defeats Hitler for the German presidency
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1932
Nazis become largest party in Reichstag
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1933
Hitler becomes chancellor
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1933
Reichstag fire
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1933
Enabling Act
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1933
Germany withdraws from League of Nations
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1933
German boycott of Jewish businesses
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1934
Beginning of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union
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1934
“Night of the Long Knives”
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1934
Hitler becomes fĂĽhrer after death of Hindenburg
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1935
Germany openly begins rearmament
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1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
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1935
Nuremberg Laws directed against German Jews
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1936
Berlin Olympics
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1936
German remilitarization of the Rhineland
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1936
Beginning of the Spanish Civil War
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1938
Germany absorbs Austria in Anschluss
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1938
Munich Agreement leads to dismemberment of Czechoslovakia
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November 9, 1938
Kristallnacht
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1939
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
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1939
Invasion of Poland
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1939
Britain and France declare war on Germany
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1940
Fall of France
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1940
Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain as prime minister
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July–October 1940
Battle of Britain
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1940 - 1941
Germans begin Blitz on British cities
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1941
Germany launches Operation Barbarossa
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1941
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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1941
30,000 Jews killed at Babi Yar over two days
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1941
Atlantic Charter
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1942
German advance stopped at Stalingrad
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1942
Battle of Midway (June)
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1942
Wansee Conference organizes the Final Solution
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1943
Battle of Kursk
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1943
Allies land in Italy
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1943
Mussolini’s government fails
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1943
Warsaw ghetto uprising
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1944
Percentages Agreement between Churchill and Stalin
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June 6, 1944
D-Day
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December 16, 1944
Germans launch Battle of the Bulge
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February 4–11, 1945
Yalta Conference
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April 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide
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May 8, 1945
V-E Day
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July 1945
Victory of British Labour Party over Conservatives
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July 17–August 2, 1945
Potsdam Conference
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August 6, 1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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August 14, 1945
V-J Day
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October 1945
United Nations’ charter is ratified
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November 1945
Nuremberg Trials for crimes against humanity begin
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1946
Establishment of French Fourth Republic
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1946
Referendum establishes the Italian Republic
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1946
Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College
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1947
George Kennan writes the “Long Telegram”
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1947
Truman Doctrine
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1947
Introduction of the Marshall Plan
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1947
India and Pakistan become independent states
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1948
Break between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
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1948
Establishment of the State of Israel
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1948
National Health Service established in Great Britain
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1948
Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe solidified
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