What Major events happened between 1897-1972?

Answer 1

1901: Queen Victoria died

1905: Russo-Japan War

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated causing WW1

1914-1918: WW1

1918: Tsar Nicholas the 2nd and family is executed and a communist revolution led by Vladimir Lenin takes power in Russia. The new Russia is called the USSR (Soviet Union)

1919: Treaty Of Versailles is signed limiting Germany's military power

1922: Joseph Stalin takes control of the USSR

1929: Wall street crash. Stock prices plunge and the world is thrown into economic depression

1934: Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany

1936-1938: Stalin purges Red army of any officers who may oppose him

1939: Molotov-Ribbetrov pact signed (non aggression pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany)

1939 (September) : Hitler invades Poland and WW2 Breaks out

1939 - 1945 : WW2

1946 - 1956: First Indochina War

1953-1953: Korean War

1953: Joseph Stalin is found dead

1957: First sattelite (Sputnik) is put into space by USSR

1957: First living animal (Laika the dog) is put into space by USSR

1961: First Man (Yuri Gagarin) 1961 1961 is put into space by the USSR

1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

1965: First space walk (Yuri Gagarin) is made by the USSR

1959- 1975: Second Indochina war (Vietnam war)

1967: 6 day war

1969: First man on moon (Neil Armstrong) USA