First World War Timeline

Recommended by THF.

Part of the excellent resource run out of the National Archives and The Imperial War Museum, a timeline for The First World War from 1914 to 1920.

Link to timeline (outside THF network).

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Timeline re Stalin's Rise to Power

Created by Dr. James Harris, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds.

7 November 1917 The Bolsheviks, a group of approximately 20,000 marxist revolutionaries, seize power in St. Petersburg, Russia.
3 April 1922 Joseph Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee, with responsibility for administering the process of filling all major Party posts.
8 October 1923 Trotsky writes a letter to the Central Committee and Central Control Commission complaining about the impact of Stalin’s Secretariat on inner-Party democracy.
21 January 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the universally acknowledged leader of the Bolsheviks, dies after he is incapacitated by a series of strokes.
23-31 May 1924 Politbureau majority attacks Trotsky at XIII Congress of the Communist Party.
Autumn 1924 Stalin develops his theory of Socialism in One Country.
6 January 1925 Trotsky resigns as War Commissar and is largely isolated from power.
September 1925 Stalin clashes with former Politbureau allies Lev Kamenev and Grigorii Zinoviev at a Central Committee plenum after disagreements over policy deepen in the course of 1925.

Spring 1926 Rapprochement between Trotsky and former enemies Kamenev and Zinoviev. They form what is referred to as the “United Opposition”.
December 1927 United Opposition expelled from the Party.

Spring 1928 Stalin’s relationship with Politbureau ally Nikolai Bukharin breaks down in the midst of a crisis in grain collections.
17 December 1929 Bukharin expelled from the Politbureau
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Timeline of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1928-1941

Recommended by Dr. Alastair Kocho-Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West of England.

1928: ‘Third Period’ launched; doctrine of Social Fascism

1929: USSR signs Kellog-Briand Pact

Sept 1934: USSR joins league of Nations

May 1935: Pacts with France and Czechoslovakia

August 1935: Comintern supports Popular Fronts

1936 – 1939: Spanish Civil War

Nov 1936: Anti-Comintern pact of Germany & Japan (Italy signs 1937)

Sep 1938: Munich Conference (USSR excluded)

April 1939: Litvinov proposes triple Military alliance – Britain, France and USSR

May 1939: Litvinov dismissed; Molotov becomes Foreign Commissar

August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact concluded

June 1941: Germany invades USSR

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The Alliance System 1872-1914: Timeline

Compiled by Dr. Alastair Kocho-Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West of England.

1872: Three Emperors’ League (Dreikaiserbund)
- Germany - Austro-Hungary - Russia
- Reconciliation of Austria and Germany
- Reconciliation of Austria and Russia

1873: Military Convention for mutual defence (Russia & Germany); Schonbrunn Convention (Russia & Austria)

1879: Dual Alliance
- Germany - Austro-Hungary
- 5 Years
- Against Russia- Isolates France

1881: Dreikaiserbund renewed
- Germany - Austro-Hungary – Russia
- Mutual defence
- Prevention of Austro-Russian conflict in Balkans
- Allows for Austrian annexation of Bosnia if deemed necessary

1882: Triple Alliance
- Germany - Austro-Hungary - Italy

1887: Reinsurance Treaty
- Germany – Russia
- 3 Years
- Does not apply in war against France or Austria
- Incompatible with Triple Alliance – not renewed in 1890

1890: Reinsurance Treaty not renewed
- Bismarck dismissed
- German shift to Weltpolitik and creation of Schlieffen Plan to deal with war against France and Russia

- 1894: Franco-Russian Alliance
- Directed against Triple Alliance powers
- Duration as Triple Alliance
- France becomes Russia’s main creditor allowing for the expansion of industry, railways and armaments

1904: Entente Cordiale
- France - Britain

1907: Anglo-Russian Convention
- Completes Triple Entente

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