| Jalmari Matias Huhtala | ||
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| Life events | Year | Historic events |
| 1900-1906 |
1900 German naval law introduces 20-year building programme for a high seas fleet to compete with the British navy
1901 (till 1905) Separation of the church from the state in France 1901 Foundation of Russian Social Revolutionary party (Bolsheviks) 1903 Assassination of Alexander, king of Serbia 1903 (till 1905) Scandal breaks in Belgium over Belgian rule in Zaire 1904 (till 1905) Russo-Japanese War |
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| Birth 31 Jul 1905 | 1905-1911 |
1905 Revolution in Russia
1905 Norway breaks away from Sweden; elects King Haakon VII 1906 Navy arms race escalates 1908 Young Turk revolution 1908 Carlos I of Portugal assassinated 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina 1908 Ferdinand I proclaimed emperor of Bulgaria |
| 1910-1916 |
1910 Portuguese revolution brings about the end of the monarchy
1912 (till 1913) Balkan Wars 1913 Coup d'etat of Young Turks in Turkey 1914 Assassination of heir to Austrian throne leads to outbreak of World War I 1914 Battle of the Marne 1914 Battle of Tannenberg between the Germans and the Russians; German victory |
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| 1915-1921 |
1915 Dardanelles Campaign; British try to force passage to Constantinople
1917 Russian Revolution: Liberal revolution (February); Bolshevik revolution (October)* 1918 Armistice ends World War I 1919 Ernest Rutherford splits atom for first time |
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| 1920-1926 |
1921 Lenin introduces New Economic Policy in Russia
1922 Irish Free State founded 1922 Mussolini becomes Italian prime minister; dictator from 1925 1923 (till 1930) Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain 1924 Death of Vladimir Lenin |
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| 1925-1931 |
1925 Locarno Agreements between major European powers aim to maintain peace and stability
1928 French begin to build fortification, the Maginot Line, on German border 1928 Stalin launches five-year plan to expand Soviet industry |
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| 1930-1936 |
1931 Republic declared in Spain after King Alfonso XIII abdicates
1933 Nazi leader Hitler appointed German chancellor; Nazis begin organized persecution of Jews 1934 Mussolini meets Hitler |
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| 1935-1941 |
1936 Germany invades Rhineland region on French-Belgian border
1936 (till 1939) Civil War in Spain 1937 Eamonn de Valera becomes prime minister of Ireland (Eire) 1938 Hitler compels Austria to form union with Germany (the "Anschluss") 1938 Munich crisis: France and Britain agree to let Germany partition Czechoslovakia 1939 Stalin and Hitler agree to divide Poland between them 1939 Germany invades Poland; this leads to World War II |
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| [38] Death 23 Jul 1944 | 1940-1946 |
1940 France surrenders to Germany
1940 (till 1945) Holocaust - 6 million Jews are murdered in German extermination camps in Germany and Poland 1943 German Sixth Army fails to capture Stalingrad (present-day Volgograd) in Soviet Union, and surrenders 1944 Allies invade France and begin to reconquer Europe |
| 1945-1951 |
1948 (till 1949) The Berlin airlift
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