dates

• assassination of franz ferdinand

  1914
• world war one

  1914-18
• first gas attack

  1915
• first use of tanks

  1916
• russian revolution

  1917
• treaty of versailles

  1919
• irish independence

  1922
• hitler becomes chancellor

  1933
• appeasement

  1936-39
• world war two

  1939-45
• dunkirk

  1940
• the blitz

  1940-41
• the final solution

  1942
• the atomic bombs

  1945
• the cold war

  1945-91
• the red scare

  1947-54
• ghanian independence

  1957
• jamaican independence

  1959