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The time between the signing of the treaties that ended WWI in 1918 to the time of the signing of the peace agreements in 1945 is a fascinating period.
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There's a lot of treaty signing going on to end the war, the communist party is getting going, there's a revolution going on and it's the end of the line for the Tsars.
There's a revolution going on and it's the end of the line for the Kaisers.
There's an armistice with Germany going on, France and Turkey start to go at it.
China and Japan try to get together.
Woodrow Wilson gives the Fourteen Points speech to give peace a chance.
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The May Fourth Movement happened.
The March 1st Movement.
The German Workers' Party started, Hitler gives his first arranged public speech, the first 1919 German federal election was held.
The Treaty of Versailles is signed.
Benito Mussolini started the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento and the Squadrismo is going on.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred.
The "Thirsty First" happened.
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The Treaty of Versailles is going into effect. ~ The League of Nations is getting going
The Kapp Putsch is going on ~ Hitler started the Volkischer Beobachter
The non-cooperation movement
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The Sturmabteilung starts
The Washington Naval Conference is going on.
The Pact of Pacification is going on ~ The National Fascist Party is going on.
The Chinese Communist Party is starting.
The Wagon tragedy is going on.
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The Salanga massacre is going on.
The March on Rome.
The Jugendbund is getting going
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The Occupation of the Ruhr ~ The First Party Congress of the nazis ~ The Beer Hall Putsch and Hitler being arrested
The Blackshirts
The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake ~ The Kantō Massacre
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hitler prison and pardon
The National Revolutionary Army
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The nazi party is refounded ~ Hitler is banned from public speaking ~ the Schutzstaffel ~ Mein Kampf and the New Order
The Peace Preservation Law
The Royal Observer Corps
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the 124th emperor of Japan
The Hitler Youth
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The Shōwa Financial Crisis
The public speaking ban on Hitler
The Chinese Civil War
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the March 15 incident
lifting the speaking ban
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The Great Depression
The Lateran Treaty
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The Shōwa Kenkyūkai
The Salt March
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The Sicherheitsdienst
Japanese militarism ~ The October incident
The Great Depression in the United Kingdom
The Mukden Incident ~ The Japanese invasion of Manchuria ~ The Pacification of Manchukuo
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The nazi party ~ The last free election
The January 28 incident
Marian Rejewski
The bomber will always get through
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nazis get the power ~ The Reichstag fire ~ The concentration camps ~ The Enabling Act of 1933 ~ The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring ~ The Haavara Agreement ~ Nazi plunder and book burning
The anti-Nazi boycott
The warning
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The Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich ~ The Death's Head Units ~ The Night of the Long Knives ~ The Allgemeine SS ~ The Punishment Catalogue
The 6 February 1934 crisis
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The Chain Home
The Wehrmacht ~ The Kriegsmarine ~ The Reich Labour Service ~ The Messerschmitt Bf 109 ~ The Nuremberg Laws
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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Edward VIII ~ RAF Fighter Command ~ RAF Bomber Command ~ George VI
February 26 Incident
The Remilitarizion of the Rhineland ~ The Orpo and the SiPo ~ The Anti-Comintern Pact
The Second United Front
The Condor Legion
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The Degenerate Art exhibition
The National Spiritual Mobilization Movement
The New London School explosion ~ The Hindenburg disaster
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the Second Sino-Japanese War ~ The USS Panay incident
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The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ~ The Sudetendeutsches Freikorps ~ The Munich Agreement ~ The Einsatzgruppen ~ Kristallnacht
The May Crisis ~ The Sudeten German uprising ~ The Occupation of Czechoslovakia
The Anschluss
The National Mobilization Law
Bletchley Park
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The Gleiwitz incident ~ Directive 1 ~ The Soviet invasion of Poland ~ The Gas vans
The Pact of Steel ~ child euthanasia in Nazi Germany ~ Aktion T4 ~ The Phoney War ~ the radio speech ~ Hartmann's wolfpack
The Battle of the Atlantic
The RAF Advanced Air Striking Force ~ The British Expeditionary Force ~ The King's Speech ~ Operation Fish
The Battle of Čajánek's barracks
The Italian invasion of Albania
The Albert Einstein letter about nukes
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
The Anglo-French Supreme War Council
The Winter War
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The Northern front, East Africa ~ The East African campaign ~ The Italian invasion of British Somaliland
The North African campaign ~ The Western Desert campaign ~ The Italian invasion of Egypt ~ Operation Compass
The rationing of bacon, butter and sugar ~ The Norway Debate ~ The Battle of Britain ~ The Birmingham Blitz ~ The Battle of Britain Day ~ The The Hardest Day
The Norwegian campaign
The German invasion of Denmark
The British occupation of the Faroe Islands
The Battle of France ~ Fall Rot ~ The Italian invasion of France ~ The Italian occupation of France ~ The French_Resistance
The German invasion of Belgium
The German invasion of the Netherlands
The German invasion of Luxembourg
The Auschwitz concentration camp
The Allied occupation of Iceland
the first RAF raid ~ Directive 16 ~ The Tripartite Pact
The Greco-Italian War
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere ~ The Tonarigumi ~ The Imperial Rule Assistance Association
The Hundred Regiments Offensive
The Japanese invasion of French Indochina ~ The Franco-Thai War
The Greco-Italian War
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The New Fourth Army incident
Operation Excess ~ Operation Substance ~ Operation Halberd
The Afrika Korps ~ The Twin Pimples raid ~ Operation Crusader ~ The Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia ~ The Siege of Tobruk ~ Operation Brevity ~ Operation Skorpion ~ The Syria–Lebanon campaign ~ Operation Battleaxe
Operation Colossus
The Action of 27 February 1941 ~ The Monsun Gruppe
The Lublin Ghetto ~ Wolf's Lair ~ The Schutzmannschaft
Operation Claymore
The Italian spring offensive
The Lend-Lease
The Belfast Blitz
The blockbuster bomb ~ The Rudolf Hess Attempted peace mission ~ The V Fighter Command ~ The Special Operations Executive ~ The Butt Report ~ The II Bomber Command ~ The French National Committee ~ The declaring war on Finland
The Eastern Front ~ The siege of Leningrad ~ Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact ~ The Hunger Plan ~ The Ural Mountains in Nazi planning ~ The Pripyat Marshes massacres ~ The Siege of Odessa ~ The Babi Yar ~ THe Crimean campaign ~ The Siege of Sevastopol ~ The Winter campaign of 1941
The Action of 4 April 1941 ~ The Bismarck ~ The Second Happy Time
The German invasion of Greece ~ The Razing of Kandanos
The Maquis
The Maquis
The Continuation War ~ Operation Silver Fox ~ Operation EF ~ The Soviet evacuation of Tallinn
The Final Solution ~ The gas chambers ~ The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
The Three Alls Policy
The Pacific War
The Niihau incident
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Solomon Islands campaign ~ Invasion of Tulagi ~ Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies ~ New Guinea campaign ~ Invasion of Salamaua ~ Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines ~ Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign ~ Raid on Makin Island ~ Guadalcanal campaign ~ Matanikau Offensive ~ Koli Point action ~ Battle of Oivi–Gorari ~ Carlson's patrol
National Council of the Resistance ~ Operation Biting ~ St Nazaire Raid ~ Service du travail obligatoire ~ Dieppe Raid ~ Case Anton
Channel Dash ~ Operation Donnerkeil ~ Dehousing ~ Baedeker Blitz ~ Operation Pluto
Internment of Japanese Americans ~ Rationing in the United States ~ Aleutian Islands campaign ~ Japanese occupation of Kiska ~ Japanese occupation of Attu ~ United States Office of War Information ~ Fort Stevens ~ Bracero program ~ Lookout Air Raids
Chindits
Action of 27 March 1942 ~ Action of 6 June 1942
Indian Ocean raid ~ Japanese occupation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ~ Easter Sunday Raid
The Augsburg Raid ~ Commando Order
Doolittle Raid
Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
Japanese occupation of Burma ~ Burma campaign ~ Arakan Campaign
Operation Kremlin ~ Case Blue ~ Sinyavino offensive ~ Battle of Stalingrad ~ Operation Nordlicht ~ Operation Braunschweig ~ Operation Uranus ~ Operation Little Saturn ~ Operation Winter Storm ~ Raid on Tatsinskaya ~ Demyansk Pocket
Attack on Sydney Harbour ~ Shelling of Newcastle
Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich ~ Ležáky ~ Lidice massacre
Operation Vigorous ~ Operation Pedestal ~ Operation Harpoon
Anne Frank
Estevan Point lighthouse
Operation Agreement ~ Operation Torch ~ Naval Battle of Casablanca ~ Operation Terminal ~ Tunisian campaign ~ Raid on Algiers
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Operation Iskra ~ Operation Polar Star ~ Koriukivka massacre ~ Operation Büffel ~ Khatyn massacre ~ Operation Citadel
Casablanca Conference ~ Operation Flax ~ Operations Vulcan and Strike
Operation Ke ~ Salamaua–Lae campaign ~ Landing at Nassau Bay ~ New Georgia campaign
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ~ Sochy massacre ~ Michniów massacre ~ Białystok Ghetto uprising ~ Escape from Sobibor
Black May
Raid on Darwin
Republic P-47 Thunderbolts
bouncing bombs ~ Mulberry harbour ~ shuttle bombing
French Committee of National Liberation ~ Operation Stonewall
Operation Pointblank ~ Werfer-Granate 21 ~ Schräge Musik ~ Henschel Hs 293 ~ V-2 rocket ~ Second Raid on Schweinfurt
An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
Allied invasion of Sicily ~ Bombing of Rome ~ Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy ~ Operation Achse ~ Barbara Line
First Quebec Conference
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Kaiten ~ Shin'yō-class suicide motorboat
Burma campaign ~ Siege of Myitkyina
Baby Blitz ~ Exercise Tiger ~ V-1
Argument plan ~ area bombardment ~ Tallboy bombs ~ Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 ~ Operation Valkyrie ~ Messerschmitt Me 262 ~ Führerbunker
Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers ~ Massacre of villages under Kamešnica
Admiralty Islands campaign ~ Landing on Emirau ~ Western New Guinea campaign ~ Mariana and Palau Islands campaign ~ Philippines campaign ~ Kamikaze
Operation U-Go ~ Battle of the Tennis Court
Indian Ocean raid
Kamenets–Podolsky pocket ~ Crimean offensive ~ Minsk offensive ~ Polotsk offensive ~ Moscow Armistice
Operation Margarethe
Operation Ichi-Go
Ploiești mission ~ Soviet occupation of Romania
Provisional Government of the French Republic ~ Liberation of France ~ Operation Overlord ~ Normandy landings ~ Tulle massacre ~ Clearing the Channel Coast ~ Liberation of Paris
Battle of the Bulge ~ Malmedy massacre
20 July plot ~ Warsaw Uprising ~ Wola massacre ~ Destruction of Warsaw
BAT guided bomb
Slovak National Uprising
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ~ Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin ~ Kyūjō incident
Second Guangxi campaign ~ Soviet invasion of Manchuria ~ settlers japanese army-abandoned china
Prague offensive
Liberation of Arnhem
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy
Operation Spring Awakening
Battle of Iwo Jima
Bombing of Dresden ~ Battle of Remagen ~ Operation Clausewitz ~ Western Allied invasion of Germany ~ Ruhr pocket ~ Celle massacre ~ Battle of the Seelow Heights ~ Capture of Hamburg ~ Goebbels cabinet ~ Flensburg Government
Mühlviertler Hasenjagd
Colmar Pocket
Vistula–Oder offensive ~ Siege of Breslau
Operation Bodenplatte
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Joseph Stalin, Secretary-general of the Communist party of Soviet Russia. , 1942. ?. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017871951/.
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Parrino, Nick, photographer. Teheran, Iran. Mrs. Louis Dreyfus, wife of the United States minister to Iran touring the poorer section of the city. Iran, 1943. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017854163/.
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United States Office Of War Information. Three Pacific Fleet airmen who survived the ordeal of thirty-four days in this tiny rubber life-boat are shown shortly after they made safe landfall on a South Pacific Island to which they navigated after their bomber was forced down. Left to right are: Anthony J. Pastula, AMO2c; Aviation Chief Machinist Mate; Harold F. Dixon, pilot; and Gene D. Alrich, RM3c. This picture was made after they had been "fattened up". South Pacific Ocean, 1942. ?. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017695471/.
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United States Office Of War Information. Australia in the war. Australian dispatch riders, equipped with American motorcycles, stage a demonstration during a review at their camp somewhere in Australia. Australia, 1943. Mar. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017696737/.
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