Modern World History ID's Final

The Manchurian Incident

A Japanese invasion of manchuria

Dean Acheson

Mau Mau Rebellion

The Korean War

Sun Yat-sen

The Suez Crisis

Sukarno

1901-1970 President of Indonesia for life was the son of a Japanese school teacher, multilingual engineer, had photographic memory, thorn in dutch’s side 2 years of prison before Japan invaded. once the war ended Declared independence from Japan in 1945.

Gavrilo Princip

1894-1918 Was a Bosnian Serb student who was part of the Black Hand a Serbian secret service ish and assassinated Archduke Ferdinand which set off the July Crisis and the breakout of world war one. He was 19, and was given a sentence of 20 years in prison.

Nanba Daisuke

1899-1924 was a student and member of the Japanese Communist Party tried to assassinate then crown prince Hirohito. Was proclaimed insane to the public and found guilty of treason and later hanged.

Malayan Emergency

1947-1960 Was categorized by the relocation of Chinese people within Malaysia “New Villages” were established as holding centers and pratically concentration camps to hold people of chinese decent. at least 2,800 people were deported to China. 25,641 Malayans were detained along with approx. 2,000 Chinese. Operation Nassau was carried out and 60,000 tons of artillery shells were dropped. approx. 8,000 soldiers killed.

Lucky Dragon

March 1954 23 men on the fishing boat the Lucky Dragon were contaminated by nuclear fallout as a result of nuclear testing by the United States in the Pacific Proving Grounds.

Fritz Haber

1868-1934 A german chemist that won the nobel prize in chemistry developed the Haber process that synthesises ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Was an important invention for fertilizers and explosives. Also known as the father of chemical warfare.

Global Influenza Pandemic

1918-1920 killed 30-100 million people globally phase one was the three day fever of spring 1918 phase two was a severe stage/mutation in autumn of 1918 hits 25% of US population.

Russo-Japanese War

1904-1905 Russia was getting too close to Japan’s territories was nervous about Russian involvement especially in the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Japan defeated Russia and won the lands of Korea and Manchuria, approx. 90,000 Japanese were killed with Russia suffering even more casualties, it eventually ended with The Treaty of Portsmouth mediated by Theodore Roosevelt.

Great Leap Forward

1958-1962 was an industrialization campaign led by the CCP (Mao) transformed China from an agrarian society to an industrialized society. One of the first initial projects was the construction of waterworks, development of people’s communes, and rural industrialization. It ultimately failed due to famines, floods, and starvation of people.

Fransisco Madero

1873-1913 was a leader of the mexican revolution, appealed to the lower/middle class people while under house arrest declares himself the rightful president. Maduro lead a revolt from his house and was not fond of violence that was taking place. Was assassinated in a coup detat

Zhang Zoulin

1875-1928 nicknamed Warlord of Warlords was the supreme rule of Manchuria had relationships with the Manchurian Railway company and Japanese government, was eventually assassinated by a train bombing by the kwantang army that he was retreating from.

First OPEC Crisis

1973-1974 in 1973 it broke off ties with the 7 sisters, oil barrel prices rose from 2.5 dollars to 12 dollars a barrell. Caused high inflation and gas shortages around the world.

Mao Zedong

1893-1976 established the Great Leap Forward, announced China will surpass the UK in steel production encouraged people to build at home forges, encouraged people to kill flies rats sparrows and mosquitoes, which led to plagues of locusts, his plan ultimately failed, the steel quality was poor and his policies were responsible for at 30-40 million deaths.

Joseph Stalin

1878-1953 Arrested in 1911 for revolutionary acts against the government, was hostile towards nature, religion, and whoever opposed the USSR. Stalin also ruled the Soviet Union as a dictator until 1953, and planned the building of the Zhiguli Hydroelectric station, extracted at least 13 billion dollars from territories and relocated many people to labor camps killed at least 6-20 million people.

Lenin Dates

1870-1924

Siege of Sarajevo Dates

Chernobyl Disaster

Chechen Wars

Ho Chi Minh