-
Period: to
Bolshevik revolution
On November 6 and 7, 1917 leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Was a peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Period: to
Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allies after the armistice to agree on peace conditions with the countries of the Central Powers. -
Period: to
The Roaring Twenties
It corresponds to the period of economic prosperity that the United States had from 1922 to 1929, as part of the expansive period of an economic cycle. -
Mussolini rises to power
In 1922, Benito Mussolini came to power as the prime minister of Italy and the leader of the National Fascist Party. At first, he ruled democratically and constitutionally, but in 1925, he turned Italy into a one-party, totalitarian state, and ruled as Italy's dictator. -
Period: to
Creation of the USSR
The Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or СССР), was a federal sovereign state in northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple equal national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic -
Black thursday
when prices on the New York Stock Exchange started to lose a lot of their value -
Black thursday
When prices on the New York Stock Exchange started to lose a lot of their value -
Period: to
The Great Deppresion
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
Period: to
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan began on September 19, 1931, immediately after the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II and would lead to the founding of the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Period: to
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party as chancellor of Germany. -
Period: to
Germany annexed the Czech región of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Period: to
Italy annexed Albania
The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Kingdom of Albania. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. -
Period: to
Germany invaded Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a military action by Nazi Germany aimed at annexing Polish territory