Modern World History - Timeline

• Adolf Hitler born in Braunau, Austria

• Plessy vs Ferguson ruling on education for blacks; "Separate but equal" ruling

• Boxer Rebellion begins in China

• Boxer Rebellion ends in China

• Hitler leaves school having failed his exams at age 16. Stayed at home reading & painting for 2 years.
• The "Nearly Revolution" in Russia. Deep unrest & rioting, Tsar nearly overthrown but regains power.
• Tongmenghui, or "Revolutionary Alliance" formed by Sun Yat-Sen

• Hitler rejected from Vienna art academy.

• Hitler gets interested in nationalist and xenophobic political groups.
• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) founded to challenge segregation in the courts and pressurise the public and government

• Russin Prime Minister Peter Stolypin assassinated
• Rebellion in Wuchang, China. Abdication of Puyi.
• NUL (National Urban League) founded to help black who had migrated from the south

• Yuan Shikai becomes President of China
• Guomindang formed.

• Hitler leaves Austria to avoid national service.

• First World War begins.
• Hitler joins Bavarian regiment of the German Army.
• Tannenberg & Masurian Lakes disasters.

• Tsar Nicholas takes control of the Russian army
• Japanese give 21 Demands to Yuan Shikai. He capitulates.

• Assassination of Rasputin
• Death of Yuan Shikai, start of the Warlord era. China divided into Warlord-ruled kingdoms.

• Russian Revolution: Tsar abdicates in favour of Provisional Government
• Lenin returns to Russia, demands "Peace, Bread, and Land!"
• 2nd Russian Revolution: Provisional Government falls to Bolshevik revolutionaries in October.

• First World War ends.
• Hitler believes Jews and Socialists had conspired to "stab Germany in the back" when the should have fought on.
• Russian Civil War begins. War Communism policy begins.

• Hitler finds the German Workers Party, a tiny group of people with 7.5 marks (£2) in funds.
• Treaty of Versailles signed.
• May the 4th movement in China.

• Hitler becomes party leader, name changed to National Socialist German Workers Party - the Nazis.
• Lenin bans non-Bolshevik parties in Russia & intorduces New Economic Policy.
• Chinese Communist Party formed.

• Nationalist support on the increase in Germany.
• End of the Russian civil war.

• Beer Hall Putsch, failed Nazi power-grab in Munich.
• GMD accepts Russian aid. First United Front between GMD and CCP begins.

• Lenin dies.
• Hitler writes Mein Kampf.
• Sun Yat-Sen publishes his 3 principles: National Freedom, Democracy, and the People's Livelihood.

• Sun Yat-Sen dies.

• March to the North begins under Chiang Kaishek

• Stalin comes to power in Russia.
• Nanjing government set up

• End of First United Front between GMD and CCP.

• Second Northern Campaign, Zhang Zuolin defeated.

• Wall Street Crash
• Economic depression hits Germany. Unemployment hits 6mln.
• Nazis become largest party in Germany
• Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan rebel.

• Second Northern Campaign, Zhang Zuolin defeated.

• Start of Kaishek's extermination campaigns against the Jianxi Soviet

• Japan invades Manchuria

• 2 Nazi landslides in elections

• Hitler becomes Chancellor
• Enabling act gives Hitler full control in Germany
• Law against new parties makes opposition to Hitler illegal
• Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the USA.

• Night of the Long Knives. All opposition within Nazi party destroyed.
• Hitler becomes President upon death of Hindenburg. Armed forces swear allegiance to Hitler.
• Long March begins, CCP retreat from Jianxi Soviet

• Long March ends

• Munich Olympics: Nazis host games and take many medals.
• Germany remilitarises the Rhineland
• Xi'an incident: Second United Fron begins.

• Japan declares war on China. Shanghai, Nanjing and Bejing fall.

• Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass, Jewish shops smashed and broken into.
• Germany annexes Austria

• Second World War begins.
• Hitler invades Poland.

• USA enters second world war. Forces desegregate due to lack of manpower.
• GMD attacks CCP. End of Second United Front.

• CORE founded.

• Second World War ends, cold war begins.
• Hitler commists suicide. End of Nazi Germany.
• Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Harry Truman new president.
• USA uses nuclear weapons on Japan.

• Russia tests its first nuclear weapon.
• CCP wins Chinese civil war, communist stae created.

• McCarthy becomes mroe prominent.
• Korean War begins.
• Chinese intercede in Korea.

• First 5 Year Plan begins

• Korean War ends.
• Eisenhower wins presidency.

• McCarthy censured
• Brown I decision

• Emmett Till murdered
• Brown II

• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• The Hundred Flowers

• Little Rock
• Eisenhower's Civil Rights Bill

• Second 5-Year Plan begins

• Mao admits failure of Great Leap Forward
• Liu Shaoqui becomes leader of China

• JFK wins US presidency
• Freedom rides & sit-ins begin

• "New Frontier" begins
• US troop levels in Vietnam increase

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Shaoqui denounces Great Leap Forward, angering Mao

• March on Washington, August 28
• JFK assassinated

• Split between Malcolm X and Nation of Islam
• Civil rights act passed

• Voting rights act passed
• Medicare created
• Malcolm X killed
• Vietnam war escalates

• White members of CORE expelled
• NOW founded
• Cultural Revolution begins

• MLK assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His death sparks riots.

• Nixon becomes president
• Woodstock Festival
• End of the Cultural Revolution

• Watergate Burglary/div>
• Educational Amendment Act, gender discrimination in education banned

• Nixon resigns as President of the United States

• Women allowed to enrol at military academies
• Death of Mao Zedong