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Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Northern Expedition
1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Salt March
1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
Encirclement Campaigns
1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident
1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power
1933-01-30
Reichstag fire
1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree
1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933
1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives
1934-06-30 - 1934-07-02
Long March
1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference
1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
Nuremberg Laws enacted
1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936-03-07
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine
1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge
1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Xi'an Incident
1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Bombing of Guernica
1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Shanghai
1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Battle of Wuhan
1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro
1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
1939-08-23
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Battle of the Atlantic
1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung
1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of France
1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk
1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain
1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass
1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk
1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete
1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad
1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre
1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow
1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign
1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign
1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan
1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference
1942-01-20
Bataan Death March
1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre
1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad
1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign
1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign
1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement
1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Operation Torch
1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign
1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Battle of Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Battle of Tarawa
1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference
1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino
1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio
1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Ichi-Go
1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord
1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan
1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration
1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising
1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon
1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Operation Market Garden
1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz
1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen
1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge
1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945)
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference
1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Battle of Okinawa
1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Battle of Berlin
1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Potsdam Conference
1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War
1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Surrender of Japan
1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Iran crisis of 1946
1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials
1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day
1946-08-16
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act
1947-07-18
Partition of India
1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948
1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
UN Partition Plan for Palestine
1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Marshall Plan
1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948)
1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of Latrun
1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid
1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign
1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Operation Yoav
1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Huaihai Campaign
1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign
1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty
1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign
1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign
1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China
1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Korean War
1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of Inchon
1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Second Battle of Seoul
1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Cuban Revolution
1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Korean Armistice Agreement
1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état
1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence
1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race
1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War
1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott
1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Suez Crisis
1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Little Rock Nine
1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1
1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward
1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine
1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War
1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement
1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Congo Crisis
1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement
1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Vostok 1
1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders
1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état
1961-09-28
Apollo Program
1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War
1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement
1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
1963 Syrian coup d'état
1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign
1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963-11-22
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964
1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement
1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches
1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état
1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution
1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War
1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War
1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Nigerian Civil War
1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots
1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot
1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
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Guatemala
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Mexico
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age 51
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President
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President
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Syria
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President
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President
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Syria
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Syria
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Syria
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Syria
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President
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Syria
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Syria
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Republic of China
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Republic of China
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Republic of China
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Germany
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Germany
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Cambodia
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Italy
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Germany
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Japan
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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Egypt
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Egypt
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Egypt
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Egypt
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Egypt
Hussein Sirri Pasha
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Egypt
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age 36
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Egypt
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi
age 40
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Adli Yakan
age 64
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Egypt
Ismaʿil Sidqi
age 52
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Egypt
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Egypt
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
age 51
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Egypt
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Egypt
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India
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Israel
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Italy
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Italy
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Italy
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Italy
Mario Scelba
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Laos
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Syria
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Syria
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age 51
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Syria
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Syria
Yusuf Zuayyin
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Syria
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Syria
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age 33
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Syria
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age 42
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Syria
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age 63
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Syria
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age 35
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Syria
Jamil Mardam Bey
age 35
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Syria
Bashir al-Azma
age 17
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Syria
Sabri al-Asali
age 25
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Syria
Khalid al-Azm
age 33
Prime Minister
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Syria
Taj al-Din al-Hasani
age 43
Prime Minister
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Syria
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar
age 16
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Syria
Nur al-Din Kahala
age 18
Prime Minister
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Syria
Sami al-Jundi
age 6
Prime Minister
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Syria
Nasuhi al-Bukhari
age 47
Prime Minister
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Syria
Lutfi al-Haffar
age 40
Prime Minister
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Syria
H. H. Kung
age 46
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Republic of China
Weng Wenhao
age 38
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Republic of China
Yen Chia-kan
age 22
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Republic of China
Yen Hsi-shan
age 44
Premier
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Republic of China
Chen Cheng
age 31
Premier
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Republic of China
Sun Fo
age 36
Premier
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Republic of China
Zhang Qun
age 39
Premier
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Republic of China
Ho Ying-chin
age 38
Premier
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Republic of China
Tan Yankai
age 48
Premier
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Republic of China
Yu Hung-chun
age 30
Premier
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Republic of China
T. V. Soong
age 36
Premier
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Republic of China
Wang Yun-wu
age 39
Premier
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Republic of China
Huynh Thuc Khang
age 52
Prime Minister
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Vietnam
Phạm Văn Đồng
age 22
Prime Minister
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Vietnam
Aleksander Prystor
age 54
Prime Minister
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Poland
Kazimierz Bartel
age 46
Prime Minister
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Poland
Janusz Jędrzejewicz
age 42
Prime Minister
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Poland
Bolesław Bierut
age 36
Prime Minister
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Poland
Stanisław Mackiewicz
age 31
Prime Minister
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Poland
Józef Cyrankiewicz
age 17
Prime Minister
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Poland
Stanisław Mikołajczyk
age 26
Prime Minister
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Poland
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
age 32
Prime Minister
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Poland
Kazimierz Świtalski
age 42
Prime Minister
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Poland
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