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World War I
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Russian Revolution
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Munich Putsch/Beer Hall Putsch
📌 Munich, Germany
- Hitler fails to seize power in Bavaria. Hitler marches into a beer hall with prominent Bavarian politicians to win their support with 2,000 SA members.
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
📌 Berlin, Germany
- Hindenburg appoints Hitler as chancellor after pressure from companies, businessmen, noblemen and politicians. -
Eišiškės Tragedy
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📌 Eišiškės, Lithuania- Jewish population of town and neighbouring areas rounded up by Einsatzgruppen, imprisoned and then shot.
- Around 4,000 Jews killed.
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Nazi Germany collapses
📌 Berlin, Germany
- Hitler commits suicide.
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Hitler commits suicide
📌 Führerbunker, Berlin, Germany- Hitler tests a cyanide pill on his dog, who dies from the pill.
- Hitler's wife, Eva Braun, kills herself with cyanide.
- Hitler shoots himself.
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Jan Palach Self-immolation
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📌 Prague, Czechia- Jan Palach committed self-immolation in Prague in protest of the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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SALT I
📌 Helsinki, Finland
- Arms treaty between USA and USSR.
- Limited number of ABMs, ICBMs, nuclear warheads and nuclear submarines. -
SALT II
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📌 Vienna, Austria
- Second SALT treaty.