20th century - 10 history lists

Death Toll of The Great War 1914-1918
Germany   1,808,000
Austria-Hungary   1,200,000
Russia   1,700,000
France   1,385,000
England      947,000
Italy      460,000
Poland (civilians)      500,000
Turkey      350,000
Romania      350,000
USA      115,000
Total estimated   8,000,000
Wounded 19,536,000

Deadliest wars since WW2 with totals of military and civil casualties: Korea 3,000,000 - Vietnam 2,059,000 - Nigeria 2,000,000 - Afghanistan 1,300,000 - Bangladesh 1,000,000 - China 1,000,000 - Cambodia 1,000,000 - India 800,000 - More died of the Spanish Disease 30,000,000 in 1918-19,  than of WW1. - US Civil War 1,000,000 - 11,500,000 blacks died in Belgican Congo around 1900.   Of 11.000.000 died in Holocaust half were jews. More died under Communist rule (62 mill. USSR -35.mill. China)  than of the 2 World Wars combined.

YEAR:   The Road to WorldWar 2
1918, 11th November    The Great War ended with the capitulation of Germany.
1933, 30th of January    Hitler becomes German Chancellor.
1936, 7th of March    Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland in a bloodless invasion.
1938, 14th of March    Hitler annexes Austria. A plebiscite shows that nearly all approve.
1938, 29th September    At Munich Britain and France allows Germany to invade Sudetenland.
1939, 15th of March   B�hmen and M�hren are invaded by Germany.
1939, 1st September    Germany invade Poland and caused Britain and France to declare war.
1940, 9th of April    German troops seize Norway and Denmark.
1940, May-June    Germany invade the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
1941, 6th of April   Germany invade Yugoslawia and Greece, delaying attack on Russia.
1941, 22nd of June    Hitler starts the attack on Russia, the emerging Super Power.
1941, 7th of December    The Japanese attacks Pearl Harbour. USA declares war on Japan.

 

YEAR:   Turning points of WW2:
1941, 22nd of June    Hitler�s doomed attack on Russia, the emerging Super Power.
1941, 7th of December    Hitler�s declaration of war against the other Super Power, USA.
1942, 20th January    The Wannsee-conference with the "Endl�sung" preempting the defeat
1942, Spring    As Hitler takes over as war-leader in face of defeat, OKW breaks down
1942, June 3    The Battle of Midway effectively broke the back of the Japanese Fleet.
1942, August    The victory at El Alamain was a sideshow.
1943, January    At  Stalingrad the Russian victory was as clear as the German defeat.
1943-1944    Already in 1943 USA started canceling orders for war-production.
1943, May 24   The Battle of the Atlantic won: U-boots were loosing in the last 2 years
1944, 6th of June   D-Day meant a second front, and it was the beginning of the end.
1944, 20th July   Assassination attempt on Hitler marks that all could see the end.
1945, 6th August   A-bomb on Hiroshima led to capitulation of Japan and the end of WW2.

 

Country:   Death Toll of WW2: Out of an total of abt. 50,000,000
Soviet Union    20,000,000 casualties civilian and military
China    3,000,000- 15,000,000. The latter number is more likely.
Germany    4,500,000 including 1,000,000 civilians.
Japan    2,000,000 casualties.
Bengal    1,500,000 died of war-related famine in 1943 in Bengal
Yugoslavia    1,300,000 including 1,000,000 civilians
Italy    500,000 casualties.
France    500,000 casualties half of them civilians.
Britain    less than 500,000 but with 120,000 additional from the Empire.
United States   less than 300,000 died;  additional hundred thousands died in industry
Hungary, Poland, Rom    3-400,000 losses in each army of  Hungary, Poland and Romania.
East & CentralEurope    4,300,000 to 5,800,000 Jews died as well as a similar number of slaws.

 

Nuke-list of the Atomic Age

1938, 22th December: first nuclear splitting of Uranium by Otto Hahn into Barium and a lot of energy.
1945, 16th July First nuclear bomb exploded in New Mexiko desert
1945, 6th August A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
1945: 8th August on Nagasaki led to capitulation of Japan.
1949, 23th September, USA registers the explosion of the first USSR-atomicbomb.
1952: Great Britain explodes their first atomicbomb.
1952, 16th November USA explodes their first hydrogen-bomb.
1953, 20 August USSR explodes their first hydrogen-bomb.
1954, 1st March At Eniwetok USA explodes hydrogen-bomb 600 times bigger than the Hiroshima-bomb.
1960, 13th February, France joins the atomic-club
1965, 16th May China explodes her 2nd atomic bomb. The first was exploded 1964.
1974: India exploded their first atomicbomb.
1986, 26th April, USSR nuclear-reactor Chernobyl explodes .

 

 

THE FALL OF THE WALL
11 MARCH 1985: Michael Gorbachev, 54, takes over as Soviet general secretary after the death of Chernenko at the age of 73.
14 APRIL 1988: the U.S.S.R. agrees to pull its troops out of Afghanistan.
7 DECEMBER 1988: In an U.N.-speech Gorbachev promises to reduce Soviet presence at the western frontiers of Warsaw Bloc.
18 AUGUST 1989: 40 years of Communist rule end in Poland after Party candidates have been defeated and Mazowieki takes over.
23 AUGUST 1989: Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians join hands to form a human chain to demand independence from U.S.S.R.
17 OCTOBER 1989: Erich Honecker is forced to resign from the presidency of DDR to be replaced by hard-liner Egon Krenz.
23 OCTOBER 1989: Hungary proclaims itself a democratic republic after having opened its borders for DDR-citizens.
9 NOVEMBER 1989: The East Germans are allowed to leave DDR as the Wall of Berlin falls.
check.jpg (416 bytes) 17 NOVEMBER 1989: In Chechoslowakia demonstrations against the Communists; Husak resign 10 Dec. 1989 and Havel takes over.
16 DECEMBER 1989: In Romania battles between Securitate and demonstrators result in the demise of Ceaucescu the 25 Dec. 1989.
22 DECEMBER 1989: the Brandenburg Gate is opened as the East and Western Berlin is united.
11 MARCH 1990: Lithuanians decide to secede from U.S.S.R. and Gorbachev sent in the tanks.
18 MARCH 1990: East Germans hold the first free election since 1932.
3 OCTOBER 1990: The Reunification of Germany after 43 years of division.
20 DECEMBER 1990: Lech Walesa becomes President of Poland after a second ballot.
19-24 AUGUST 1991: Yeltsin averts an attempted coup by Communist hardliners. Yeltsin bans the Party  and succeeds Gorbachev.

 

 

  Olympics 1896-2008
2008 Peking Games 2006 Turin, Italy Winter Games
2004 Athens Games 2002 Salt Lake City Games
2000 Sydney Games 1998 Nagano Winter Games
1996 Atlanta Games 1994 Lillehammer Norway
1992 Barcelona Games 1992 Albertville France
1988 Seoul Games 1988 Calgary Canada
1984 LA US Games 1984 Sarajevo Games
1980 Moscow Games 1980 Lake Placid Games
1976 Montreal Games 1976 Innsbruck Games
1972 Munich Games 1972 Sapporo Games
1968 Mexico Games 1968 Grenoble Games
1964 Tokyo Games 1964 Innsbruck Games
1960 Rome Games 1960 Squaw Valley
1956 Melbourne Games 1956 Cortina Games
1952 Helsinki Games 1952 Oslo Games
1948 London Games 1948 St. Moritz
1944 Cancelled during WW 2 1944 Cancelled during WW 2
1940 Cancelled during WW 2 1940 Cancelled during WW 2
1936 Berlin Games 1936 Garmisch Games
1932 LA Games 1932 Lake Placid
1928 Amsterdam Games 1928 St. Moritz
1924 Paris Games 1924 Chamonix Games
1920 Antwerp Games No winter games yet
1916 Cancelled during WW 1 No winter games yet
1912 Stockholm Games No winter games yet
1908 London Games No winter games yet
1904 St. Louis Games No winter games yet
1900 Paris Games No winter games yet
1896 Athens Games No winter games yet

 

US Presidents elected in the 20th century

26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) R
27. William H. Taft (1909-1913) R
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) D
29. Warren Harding (1921-1923) R
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) R
31. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) R
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) D
33. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) D
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) R
35. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) D
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) D
37. Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974) R
38. Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977) R
39. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) D
40. Ronald W. Reagan (1981-1989) R
41. George Bush (1989-1993) R
42. William J. Clinton (1993-2001) D
43. George W. Bush (2001--) R

 

 

POPES IN THE 20th CENTURY
Leo XIII (1878-1903)
St. Pius X (1903-14)
Benedict XV (1914-22)
Pius XI (1922-39)
Pius XII (1939-58)
John XXIII (1958-63)

Paul VI (1963-78)
John Paul I (1978)
John Paul II (1978—)



Country/Year Hidden Holocausts
Belgian Congo 1891-1911   11,500,000 blacks died 1891-1911; from 1907 Kongo was a Belgian Crown Domain.
South Africa, 1900   In the Boer-war the British coined the word "concentration camp".
Armenia, 1915   1,500,000 Christian Armenians killed by Turks in what Churchill called a Holocaust.
USSR, 1921   21,000,000 hit by partly Soviet-engineered famine. (2nd August 1921)
Ukraine, 1932-1933   4,821,600 died of hunger engineered by Stalin 1932-33. 7,465,000 died in 1932-1939.
USSR 1934 to 1953   From 1934 to 1953 upto 15 million Russians disappered in the GULAGS.
Germany/Poland 1939-1945   5,000,000 non-jews died in Germancamps, mainly Polish Christians and Catholics
Germany, 1942-1945   5,860 mill. jews died in German KZ-Camps
Poland/Russia from 1941   1,700,000 Polish people were deported to Siberia after 1941.
Bengal, 1943   1,500,000 died of war-related famine in 1943 in Bengal.
Germany, East Prussia 1945   upto 3,000,000 German civilians were killed by Russians in the last months of WW2.
Cambodia, 1975-1979   Khmer Rouge�s Pol Pot (president 1976) killed abt. 1,700,000 of his own people.
East Timor 1983-1985   200,000 East Timorese (Indonesia) were killed in 1983-1985.
Rwanda/Burundi - 1993-1994   700,000 Hutus and Tutsies murdered each other while the world looked away.
Yugoslavia 1991-2000   About 250,000 dead Yugoslaws can be blamed on Milosevic upto 2000.

 

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