History IGCSE Timeline (1917-1979)

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    World War I

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    Russian Revolution

  • 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.
    - Clashes with police after failed seizure of Beer Hall.
  • 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.
    - Allies reach Berlin.
    - Nazis surrender on 8 May.
  • 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.
  • Jan Palach Self-immolation

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    📌 Prague, Czechia
    • Jan Palach committed self-immolation in Prague in protest of the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
  • 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.