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TIMELINE 1879-MODERN (1935 - Mussolini launches an Italian invasion and…

- - - - August 1939 - Nazi-Soviet pact of nonaggression with plan for division of Poland
        
        May - June 1940 - Nazi conquer the Netherlands, Belgium and France
        
        June 1941 - Germany launches massive invasion of the Soviet Union
        
        Dec 1941- Japan attack Pearl Harbour bringing the US into the war
        
        January 1942 - Nazi's launch plans to build death camps for killings of jews and others leading to the murder of 6 million in the holocaust
        
        Feb 1943- Soviet forces defeat Germans at Stalingrad
        
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        Sept 1940 - German air attacks on Britain are repelled in the battle of Britain
      - Sept 1939 - Nazi invasion of Poland begins WWII
- - - - 1949 - Indonesia wins independence from the Netherlands
        
        1954- France withdraws from Indochina; two govs emerge in north and south Vietnam
        
        1955- Leaders of 29 new nations meet in Indonesia to condemn Western Imperialism
        
        1957 - Ghana is first British colony to gain independence
        
        1960 - Frances' 15 sub saharan countries vote for independence
        
        1963- Keyna wins independence
        
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        1963: Al Assad - Baath Party seize control in Syria
        
        1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium
        
        1954- 1962 - Algerian Nationalists wage war for independence
        
        1952: Coup d'etat by Nasser in Egypt (exit King Faruk)
        
        1951: Libya Independence
- - - - 1905 - Germany challenges French-English relations by calling for Moroccan independence
        
        1912-1913 - Two Balkan wars contribute to Serbian and Russian hostility
        
        June 1914 - Ferdinand assassinated in Serbia by a Bosnian terrorist
        
        August 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia and France; England declares war on Germany
        
        1916 - Battles of Verdun and the Somme confirm military stalemate in France
        
        March 1917 - Revolution of Russia overthrows Nicky II: provisional gov continues the war
        
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        April 1917 - US declares war on Germany
        
        September 1914 - Battle of Marne stops German advances in France and leads to trench warfare on the Western Front
- - - - 1906 - 1911- Stolypin's reforms promote growth for Kulak
        
        1914 - Russia enters war with Germany and suffers crushing defeats
        
        March 1917 - Nicky II abdicates; Russia becomes a republic under a provisional gov and continues war with germany
        
        Nov 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution
        
        January 1918 - Bols dissolve Constituent Assembly and establish Red Army
        
        1918- 1922 - Bolsheviks consolidate power and suppress all opponents in Civil War and Red Terror
        
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        1919-1920 - Creation of third, or Communist, International (Comintern)
        
        April 1917 - Germany provides a safe passage for Bolshevik leaders to enter Russia
- - - - 1922- Germany and the Soviet Union agree to diplomatic relations in Treaty of Rapollo
        
        1923- French Occupation of the Ruhr Valley and ruinous German inflation
        
        1925 - Treaties at Locarno recognise the postwar European national borders
        
        October 1929 - Stock market crash in New York leads to great depression
        
        1932 - 1939 - writers respond to social crisis with new social realism
        
        1932- governments respond to economic crisis with national protectionism
        
        1934-1935- Chinese communists make the 6000 mile long march and claim to lead anti-imperialist movement in china
        
        1925- Death of Sun Yat-sen is followed by conflicts between Nationalists and Communists in China and gradual decline of European influence
        
        1923- Turkish republic is established and aims to modernise
- - - - January 1933- Hitler comes to power in Germany; nazi's take state control and suppress opposition
        
        1934- Right wing and fascist groups in France challenge the Third Republic with riots
        
        1935- Nazi's adopt Nuremberg laws against Jews
        
        1936- Left wing popular front comes to power in France under Leon Blum and enacts notable social reforms
        
        1938 - The Nazi regime encourages violent attacks on Jews and Jewish property during Kristallnacht
      - March 1933 - Roosevelt introduces the new deal
- - - - 1949 - Soviet successfully test an atomic bomb
        
        1950-1953 - Korean War demonstrates new American policy to 'contain' communism
        
        1953 - Death of Stalin
        
        1956- Unsuccessful revolts against Soviet control in Poland and Hungary
        
        1957- Six Western European nations establish a common market for trade
        
        1958 - France establishes the 5th Republic with Charles de Gaulle as president
        
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      - 1949 - Us and Europe create NATO
      - Mao Zedong and the communist party claim the Peoples Republic of China
- - - - 1974: Economic recession due to high oil prices and inflation
        
        1979: Thatcher becomes Prime Minster
        
        1987: Reagan and Gorbachev reach a US Soviet agreement to withdraw intermediate range nuclear weapons from Europe
        
        1990 - German Reunification
        
        1992- Treaty of Maastricht establishes the EU
        
        1999- NATO launch attack on Serbia to stop Serbian assaults on Muslims in Kosovo
        
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        1991 - 1996 - Serbian and Croatian forces pursue ethnic cleansing as yugoslavia breaks apart
        
        1989 - USSR withdraw military from Afghanistan
        
        1989: Berlin Wall is dismantled; communist regime collapses in East Germany
        
        1985: Gorbachev assumes leadership of USSR
        
        1989: Communist regimes dissolved in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czech
- - - - 2002- Euro becomes common currency
        
        2003 - American and British forces invade Iraq and over Hussein but begin long war against insurgents
        
        2011: Troops withdraw from Iraq