Period 4: Global Wars to Globalization (All Dates Reviewer)

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

Russia begins mobilization

Germany declares war on Russia

Germany declares war on France

Germans defeat Russians at Tannenberg

First Battle of the Marne

Completion of the Panama Canal

Gallipoli campaign begins

Sinking of the Lusitania

Germans begin attack on Verdun

British launch attack at the Somme

Zimmermann Telegram

Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare

Bolsheviks sign armistice with Germany

United States declares war on Germany

Provisional Government established in Russia

Bolshevik seizure of power

Worldwide influenza outbreak

Female suffrage begins in Great Britain

Germany Republic established after abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Armistice brings the war to a close

Treaty of Versailles

Mussolini organizes first Fascist party

Weimar Constitution established

Formation of Communist International

Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy

German hyperinflation

Beer Hall Putsch

Death of Lenin

Dawes Plan

Treaty of Lucarno

First Soviet Five-Year Plan

Beginning of collectivized farms in Soviet Union

Lateran Accord between Mussolini and the Catholic Church

Young Plan

Stock market crash

Nazis make huge electoral gains

Bank failures

Hindenburg defeats Hitler for the German presidency

Nazis become largest party in Reichstag

Hitler becomes chancellor

Reichstag fire

Enabling Act

Germany withdraws from League of Nations

German boycott of Jewish businesses

Beginning of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union

“Night of the Long Knives”

Hitler becomes führer after death of Hindenburg

Germany openly begins rearmament

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Nuremberg Laws directed against German Jews

Berlin Olympics

German remilitarization of the Rhineland

Beginning of the Spanish Civil War

Germany absorbs Austria in Anschluss

Munich Agreement leads to dismemberment of Czechoslovakia

Kristallnacht

Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact

Invasion of Poland

Britain and France declare war on Germany

Fall of France

Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain as prime minister

Battle of Britain

Germans begin Blitz on British cities

Germany launches Operation Barbarossa

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

30,000 Jews killed at Babi Yar over two days

Atlantic Charter

German advance stopped at Stalingrad

Battle of Midway (June)

Wansee Conference organizes the Final Solution

Battle of Kursk

Allies land in Italy

Mussolini’s government fails

Warsaw ghetto uprising

Percentages Agreement between Churchill and Stalin

D-Day

Germans launch Battle of the Bulge

Yalta Conference

Hitler commits suicide

V-E Day

Victory of British Labour Party over Conservatives

Potsdam Conference

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

V-J Day

United Nations’ charter is ratified

Nuremberg Trials for crimes against humanity begin

Establishment of French Fourth Republic

Referendum establishes the Italian Republic

Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College

George Kennan writes the “Long Telegram”

Truman Doctrine

Introduction of the Marshall Plan

India and Pakistan become independent states

Break between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia

Establishment of the State of Israel

National Health Service established in Great Britain

Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe solidified