Test 2 Dates Flashcards
1914-1918
World War I
1910
The fundamentals begins publication
1917
Bolshevik revolution in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin
1918 (spring)
US forces arrive to fight WWII
1918
Armistice signed on November 11th, ending WWI hostilities.
1918-1921
Russian civil war, eventually won by communists
1922
Soviet Union begins
1928
Joseph Stalin assumes power in Russia
1929-1939
The Great Depression
1934-1935
The long march establishes Mao as leader in the Chinese communist party
1933
Hitler becomes chancellor; the third reich in Germany
1937
Japanese “rape of Nanking” (china) begins- thousands murdered
1938
Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)- “the night of broken glass”- persecution
1939-1945
World War II
1940-1941
Battle of Britain
1941(June)
Germany invades the Soviet Union