Event Exact Date s Terms Notes Year 1902 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 Charlie Chaplin starts acting career 1902 1977 Easter Rising Easter Week 6 days Empress Zewditu 1916 1930 Vladimir Lenin becomes Russian leader Nov 8 1917 Jan 21 1924 Yugoslavia emerges Treaty of Versailles June 28 League of Nations is created Jan 10 1920 1946 Fridtjof Nansen 1861 1930 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1920 1938 Walter Ulbricht 1920 1973 One of most important figures in history of film industry Rose to fame in Silent Era Worldwide icon the Tramp Modern Times Irish republicans end British rule in Ireland First female head of internationally recognized state in Africa known for reform Conservatism religious devotion One party socialist state Established Bolshevik admin Formed Soviet Union 1922 Communist International Formed from merging territories of former Austro Hungarian Empire with prev independent Kingdom of Serbia End war Germany Allies Intergovernmental organization whose principal mission is to maintain world peace Nansen Passport Refugees Turkish National Movement Turkish War of Independence Founder of Republic of Turkey Transformer Ottoman Empire into modern nation state Important role in creation of Weimar era Communist Party of Germany KPD joined in 1920 During Nazi rule lived in exile in France Prague and Soviet Union 1933 1945 1941 active in a group of German communists 1943 close of Battle of Stalingrad conducted a communist political rally in the middle of Stalingrad 1945 formed the Socialist Unity Party of Germany SED 1949 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR German Democratic Republic 1950 SED more orthodox Soviet style communist party he became General Secretary of the SED Central Committee Introduced five year plan 1960 SED abolished GDR president position creating the Council of State he was named Chairman supreme leader of the country a position created especially for him 1961 pressured Khrushchev to solve emigration problem in Berlin Berlin Wall is built economic public relations disaster for his gov t 1971 forced to resign from all public functions Allowed to remain Chairman of the State council until death in 1973 Assumes leadership of Indian National Congress Led nationwide pacific campaigns for social change Led the Indian Movement for Independence For stateless people mostly Russians Communist Kulaks Italian National Fascist Party Set up one party dictatorship Sided with Axis forces WWII Black Shirts fascist nat militia Failed Nazi coup to take over 1921 Mohandas Gandhi 1921 1948 Nansen Passports created July 3 5 Joseph Stalin appointed leader of Soviet Union Apr 3 1922 Oct 16 1952 Centralized command economy 1922 Benito Mussolini becomes Italian Prime Minister 1922 1943 1923 Beer Hall Putsch Nov 8 9 Great Depression 1929 1939 downturn in history of Western Pass Laws Natives Act of1923 1923 First five year plan 1928 1932 Alfred Hugenberg Black Tuesday Oct 24 Haile Selassie emerges Emperor of Ethiopia Ramsey MacDonald forms National Gov t serves as Prime Minister 1930 1974 1931 1935 Statute of Westminster Dec 11 1928 1929 1930 1931 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR 1933 1945 The New Deal 1933 1938 1934 Night of the Long Knives Jun 30 July 2 Munich Hitler imprisoned Denominated urban areas in South Africa as white Required non white males to carry documents called passes authorizing their presence in restricted areas No documentation immediate arrest and sent to rural area Stalin s list of economic goals Kolkhoz collective farming Need of rapid industrialization Leader of German National People s Party DNVP Helped Hitler become Chancellor Isolationism Longest lasting economic industrialized world Internationalist views join UN Criticized as autocratic illiberal Slow modernization Eng Labour Party liberal Pacifist Independence of British dominions from UK Bound them to seek each other s approval for changes in monarchical titles common line of succession Statutory embodiment of equality allegiance to Crown 32nd US President Democrat New Deal New Deal Coalition At first remained neutral WWII Pearl Harbor US joins war Domestic programs in the US in response to Great Depression Focus relief recovery reform Nazi purge of political murders Established Hitler as Supreme 1935 Italo Ethiopian War 1935 1936 Modern Times Feb 5 Francisco Franco 1936 1975 1936 1937 Spanish Civil War 1936 1939 Second Sino Japanese War Neville Chamberlain Jul 7 1937 Sept 9 1945 May 1937 May 1940 Judge of the German People Italy vs Ethiopia Showed weakness of LN Comedy film by Charlie Chaplin Partially successful coup to overthrow republic started the Civil War he won Established a dictatorship Proclaimed himself El Caudillo the Chief like those of his supporters in war Only one political party allowed FET y de las JONS Maintained neutrality in WWII Cold War world s foremost anticommunist figure Restored the monarchy before dying King Juan Carlos I Republicans Second Spanish Republic gov t vs Nationalists Spanish Republican Armed Forces under Francisco Franco Republicans communist Soviet Union and socialist Mexico Nationalists Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy Nationalists won established dictatorship Francisco Franco Japan vs China Japan invaded China over access to raw materials China received aid from Allies Prime Minister of the UK 1938 Munich Agreement signed Pledged to defend Poland s independence if it were attacked alliance that brought Britain into war when Germany attacked Poland in 1939 Led Britain through the first 8 months of WWII Resigned on May 10 1940 was 1939 Molotov Ribbentrop Non Aggression Pact Aug 23 The Blitz Sept 7 1940 May 21 1941 1940 Winston Churchill 1940 1964 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22 succeeded by Winston Churchill Nazi Soviet Pact Guaranteed non belligerence towards each other and Agreed not to form alliances with the other s enemies Divided several territories into German and Soviet control Aug 24 night bombers aiming for Royal Air Fields accidentally destroyed London homes and killed civilians Winston Churchill bombed Berlin the next night Sept 7 Retaliation Blitz Nazi sustained strategic bombings on 16 British cities more than 100 tons of high explosives over a period of 267 days London alone was attacked 71 times For 50 years he held many political cabinet positions 1940 Prime Minister of the UK Led UK through WWII 1945 became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour Gov t Warned about Iron Curtain of Soviet influence in Europe 1951 reelected Prime Minister