History Dates WWI + WWII

WWI in europe + WWII in the pacific

CAUSES

Bosnian Crisis (Austria annex Bosnia)

1908

Bulgarian Crisis (Ferdinand king of Bulgaria + financial mitigations)

1885-1888

Balkan Wars

1912-1913

First Morrocan Crisis + Algeciras Conference

1905-1906, 1906

Blank Cheque

1914

July Crisis

1914

Eastern Crisis

1875-78

Second Morrocan Crisis + Franco German Accord

1911, 1911

Eastern crisis + Congress of Berlin

1878

The New Course

1890-1914

Dual Alliance + triple alliance

1879, 1881

Entente Cordiale, triple entente

1904, 1907

Black Hand and assassination of ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand

1914

Scramble for Africa + conference of Berlin

1880s + 1884

German Naval Laws

1908 and 1912

Schlieffen Plan and War Council

1905 and 1912

Germany invasion of Belgium

1914

Mukden Incident

1931

Invasion of Manchuria

1931

Encroachment into manchura, Jehol, Hebei, inner mongolia

2nd Sino Japanese War + rape of nanjing

1937-1941, 1937

National mobilisation law (Japan)

1938

Soviet Japanese Non-Aggression Pact

April 1941

Invasion of northern indochina

1940

Invasion of southern indochina

1941

Oil embargoes

1941

Tripartite pact

1940

US export controls

1940

Hull ultimatum

1941

Stimson Doctrine

1932

Lytton Commission Reports

1932

Anticomintern Pact

1936

Quarantine speech and 9 power conference

1937

New Order in Asia

1938

Co-prosperity Sphere

1940

PRACTISES

Iwo Jima

1945

Coral sea decryption

1942

Island Hopping

1942

B29 incendiary bombs on cities

1944

atomic bombs

1945

Sommes - Cambrai - Amein

1916-17-18

Artillery at Ypres + Sommes (fails)

1915, 1916

tech and tactics at Passchendaele + Amien (success)

1917, 1918

German blitzkrieg attempt

1918

Hundred day advance

1918

Japan aircraft carriers produced vs US

1934-1944, japan 7, US 90

Japan -% of US industry capacity

10

how much of tokyo destroyed

99%

US controlled — of global —

¾, steel iron and other materials

IJA numbers

7 million across asia

US military numbers

3 million volunteers, 11 million drafted

Japanese women — in agriculture

2.5 million

US women — in uniform (Women’s army auxillary corps, Navy Nurse Corps)

350000

UK defense of Real act

1914

Conscription start in Britian France and Russia

1916, total 30 million

ANZACs at formelles

1916

Spring offensive

1918

EFFECTS

Treaty of San Francisco

1951

US occupation in Japan until

1952, 7 years

Korean War

1950-1953

Decolonisation of south-east asia

1946-1997

IMF, World Bank

1944, 1945

— japanese soldiers killed, — japanese civilians killed

1.7 million, 1 million

— chinese soldiers killed, — chinese civilians killed

1.3 million, 17 million

US — soldiers killed

100,000

Germany industry recovery by

1928

total WWI casualties

10 million

German — dead, — wounded

2 million, 5 million