IB History Timeline

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World War I

28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918

Paris 1919 Conference

January 1919

World War II

1 September 1939 - 2 September 1945

Yalta Conference

Feb 4 1945 - Feb 11 1945

Meeting of the Grand Alliance: U.S, U.K and U.S.S.R

Potsdam Conference

17 July 1945 - 2 August 1945

VJ Day

August 1945

NATO Established

April 1949

The Soviet Union

Lenin's Administration

October 1917 - January 1924

Russian Civil War

November 1917 - October 1922

Bolshevik Revolution of 1917

November 7 1917 - November 8 1917

The Bolshevik Communists take power in Russia. Beginning of Cold War.

Stalin's Administration

January 1924 - October 1952

Stalin Anti-Capitalism Speech

February 1946

Soviets Successfully Test First Nuclear Weapon

Aug 1949

Warsaw Pact Established

May 1955

Red Army puts down Hungarian Revolution

October 1956 - November 1956

Suez Crisis

October 1956

The United States

Wilson's Administration

March 1913 - March 1921

Wilson's Fourteen Points Speech

February 8 1918

F.D. Roosevelt Administration

March 1933 - April 1945

Truman's Administration

April 1945 - January 1953

U.S Drops A-Bomb on Japan

Aug 1945

Truman Doctrine Speech

March 1947

The United Kingdom

British Mandate of Palestine

September 1923 - 14 May 1948

Iron Curtain Speech

March 5 1946

The Middle East

Mandate of Palestine

April 1920 - 14 May 1948

1939 White Paper

1939

State of Israel Founded

14 May 1948

Europe

Nazi Germany

January 1933 - May 1945

Munich Agreement

September 1938

VE Day

May 8 1945

Victory over Germany in Europe

Communists Take Power in Poland

Jan. 1947