Important Dates to Memorize - History Exam PDF
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This document provides a list of important dates in history, covering events from World War I to the Cold War and beyond. It includes key events, like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the end of World War I, suitable for history exam revision.
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Important Dates to Memorize - History Exam June 28, 1914 - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand + Archduchess Sophia July 28, 1914 - Start of WW1 (Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia) April-May 1915 - Battle of Ypres July-November 1916 - Battle of Somme April 1917 (4 day battle) - Battl...
Important Dates to Memorize - History Exam June 28, 1914 - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand + Archduchess Sophia July 28, 1914 - Start of WW1 (Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia) April-May 1915 - Battle of Ypres July-November 1916 - Battle of Somme April 1917 (4 day battle) - Battle of Vimy Ridge July-November 1917 - Battle of Passchendaele August-November 1918 - Hundred Day Offensive November 11, 1918 - End of WW1 1915 - Lusitania sunk by Germans 1917 - British intercepted Zimmerman Telegram 1917 - Conscription Bill & Borden fixes election June 28, 1919 - Treaty of Versailles signed 1920 - Dominion Elections Act 1923 - Chinese Immigration Act 1925 - Federal Divorce Act 1928 - Women Olympics 1918 - Prohibition of Alcohol 1928 - Women were not considered “persons” under BNA Act 1929 - Women were considered “persons” (Famous Five) February 1930 - KKK killed Ira Johnson under racist beliefs 1921 - Hitler becomes leader of Nazi 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch & Arrest 1928 - Elected in Reichstag & 2nd largest political party January, 1933 - Hitler is appointed chancellor (leader) 1934 - Hitler is Dictator (Night of Long Knives) 1935 - Persecution of Jews (Nuremberg Laws) March 12, 1938 - Germany annexed Austria October 1938 - Took the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia March 1939 - Invaded Czechoslovakia September 1 1939 - Invaded Poland September 3 1939 - Britain and France declared war on Germany 1937 - Policy of Appeasement 1939-1945 - Battle of Atlantic July 1940 - Oct 1940 - Battle of Britain June 1941 - December 1941 - Invasion of USSR (Operation Barbarossa) December 8-25 1941 - Battle of Hong Kong December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbour Attack August 19, 1942 - Dieppe Raid/Operation Jubilee July 1942 - Feb 1943 - Battle of Stalingrad December 20 - 28, 1943 - Italian Campaign (Operation Husky) June-August 1944 - Normandy (D-Day Invasion) 1933-1945 - Holocaust July 15, 1945 - Trinity Test August 6, 1945 - Hiroshima Atomic Bomb August 9, 1945 - Nagasaki Atomic Bomb 1945 - United Nations 50 countries signed 1945-1990 - Cold War 1955-1991 - Warsaw Pact 1948-Present - NATO 1943-1945 - Gouzenko Affair 1940s-1950s - Massey Report 1950-1953 - Korean War 1956 - Suez Crisis 1964 - Flag Debate 1968 - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) 1982 - Constitution Act 1982 - Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 1994 - Rwanda Genocide September 30 - Truth and Reconciliation Day 1800s-1996 - Residential Schools 1950 - Inuit Relocation 1960s-1980s - Sixties Scoop 1969 - White Paper 1982 - Constitution/Indigenous Rights 1990 - Oka Crisis 2007 - Truth and Reconciliation Commission June 11, 2008 - Apology to Residential Schools August 26, 1991 - October 1996 - Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples October 1970 - October Crisis
