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Volume 4: The Modern Age c Flashcards

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Kerensky takes over Russia Provisional Government

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1917

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Bolshevik Revolution

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1917

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Bolsheviks renamed “Communist Party”

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1917

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Ahmad Fu’ad becomes sultan of Egypt

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1917

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Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers

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1918

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Germany signs armistice to end fighting of World War I

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1918

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7
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Romanov family assassinated

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1918

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Great Britain gives women right to vote

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1918

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White Army forms

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1918

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Egyptian delegates visit England in “wafd”

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1918

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Russian Civil War

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1918-1921

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12
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Sinn Fein sets up Irish Assembly

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1919

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Treaty of Versailles is signed

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1919

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14
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League of Nations forms

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1919

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Amritsar massacre in India

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1919

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Fascist Party is formed in Italy

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1919

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U. S. Congress gives women the right to vote

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1920

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Sinn Fein and Great Britain reach peace agreement

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1921

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is elected head of the Congress Party

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1921

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Chinese Communist Party is formed

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1921

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21
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Mussolini marches to Rome

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1922

22
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Michael Collins assassinated during Irish Civil War

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1922

23
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Lenin suffers stroke; Stalin takes control of Russia

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1922

24
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Britain grants Egypt independence

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1922

25
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Chiang Kai-shek starts Kuomintang military academy

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1923

26
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Irish Free State begins to govern itself

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1923

27
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Italy under control of the Fascists

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1923

28
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Lenin dies; Petrograd renamed Leningrad

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1924

29
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Henry Puyi leaves China

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1924

30
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Sun Yixian dies

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1925

31
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Emperor Hirohito ascends the Japanese throne

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1926

32
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Mao Zedong and CCP members rebel against Kuomintang

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1926

33
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Kuomintang takes control of China’s government

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1928

34
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The Wall Street Crash

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1929

35
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Gandhi leads thousands on Salt March

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1930

36
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Russian Gulag in operation

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1930-1960

37
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Japan withdraws from League of Nations

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1931

38
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Famines in Russia kill up to 5 million people

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1932-1933

39
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Franklin Roosevelt becomes President

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1933

40
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Hitler takes power in Germany

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1933

41
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Mao Zedong’s Long March

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1934-1935

42
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Berlin hosts the Olympics; Jesse Owens wins four gold medals

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1936

43
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Spanish Civil War

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1936-1939

44
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Japanese capture Shanghai and Beijing

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1937

45
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Kristallnacht

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1938

46
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Germany invades Poland; World War II begins

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1939

47
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General Franco gains control of Spain

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1939

48
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Japan joins the Axis powers

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1940

49
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The Dunkirk Evacuation

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1940

50
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U. S. enters WWII after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

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1941

51
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The Battle of Midway

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1942

52
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Kerensky takes over Russia Provisional Government

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1917

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