Final Project-Timeline

World War 1 was the first war to affect almost every part of the world. This war was the first to include mass trench warfare, the concept of total war, and was a war that caused millions of deaths. It was caused by a rigid pair of global treaties that were bound to break at the slightest disturbance. It led to years of war, deaths, and internal struggles within the fighting countries. It also emerged the US as the frontrunner in military dominance and economic strength.
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World War II initially began in East Asia when Japan invaded China. However Germany started the war because it was still bitter about how the WWI turned out and how much the Treaty of Versailles blamed them.It started in Europe when the police of appeasement for Adolf Hitler did not work and he chose to start conquering Europe. It was the Allies against the axis powers and because of the massive industrialization around the world the weaponry had greatly increased. America was brought into the war at the end of 1941 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. But we got the back and ended the war in 1945 by dropping to atom bombs on them! MURICA! http://carienvermaakhistory.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/18574-bigthumbnail1.jpg

After WWII two superpowers emerged, the US and the Soviets, one communist and the other democratic. The two used other countries to fight for them because during the arms race both superpowers had accumulated an arsenal of nuclear weapons. The two were afraid of nuclear fallout which is why they had their allies fight for them. It was called a cold war because no real battle took place the countries had more of a standoff. http://img.talkandroid.com/uploads/2011/08/cold-war.gif

During the Cold War the Soviet Union and The United States had a rivalry between their two space programs sparked by nationalism and the Soviets launching Sputnik to the moon in 1957. President JFK initiated this process and made it possible for Neil Armstrong to be the first person to set foot on the moon. This event is important because it shows the superiority of American technology at the time. http://www.techeye.net/assets/upload/neil-armstrong.jpg

IBM introduced its first personal computer in 1981 at a price of $1,565 which was a huge drop in both size and price form a decade ago. With this invention people around the world were able to access the World Wide Web thus beginning the Age of Information. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Aqx-d1L47g0/S99WxmhqS3I/AAAAAAAAAB0/Cb4ozdDIox4/s1600/THE+FIRST+PC.jpg

Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was murdered. Austria-Hungary, like many in countries around the world, blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the battle of Slav nationalism once and for all. As Russia supported Serbia, and Germany supported Austria-Hungary, World War 1 was kicked off.
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Implemented by Mao Zedong, the goal of this plan was for huge communes to be created to catapult the revolution toward its goal of a true Marxist state. In reality however, the local governments that ran the communes couldn't produce ridiculously high high agricultural quotas demanded by the government. So the government lied about production which led to a famine that killed 30 million Chinese. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/fileadmin/historyLearningSite/glf02.jpg

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and with it the fall of Communism in 1989 the strength of the Soviets greatly deteriorated. The policies of glasnost and perestroika implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev set in motion a wave of change that was irreversible in the Soviet Union. It collapsed in 1991 and its territories broke up into many independent countries. This event is important because it marks the end of the Cold War. http://www.whycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/soviet-union-collapse.gif

This signing ended British neutrality in Europe and set the sides out for WW1, against the triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy) with the signing of the Triple Entente a European conflict was inevitable
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The Bolshevik revolution, also known as the October Revolution, put an end to the Romanov dynasty in Russia. It overthrew the provisional government that wanted to stay in World War I. Vladimir Lenin rose as the leader out of this revolution and he implemented Marxism and mobilized the support of the workers and soldiers.
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