TIME CHART OF WORLD EVENTS AND REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS

World events	Workers' movement	Communist movement	Radicalisations	Fourth International
		1864 foundation 1st International 1889 foundation 2nd International	1st wave women's movement
1914 outbreak of 1st World War 1916 Irish Easter Rising 1918 end of 1st World War	1914 German SPD votes war credits in Reichstag 1917 Russian Revolution	1919 foundation 3rd International
	1918-23 German and Hungarian revolutions	1924 Death of Lenin	Development of solidarity with Russian revolution	1923 Founding of Left Opposition 1929 Trotsky expelled from USSR
1933 Hitler takes power in Germany 1936 Spanish Civil War 1939 outbreak of 2nd World War	1936 Popular Front elected in France, Spain	1934-35 Long March in China 1936-38 Moscow trials 1939 Stalin Hitler pact	Anti-fascism 1936 International Brigades in Spain	1938 Transitional Programme; foundation of Fourth International
1940 Hitler invades USSR 8th May 1945 end of war in Europe 6th August 1945 Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima		1943 Dissolution 3rd International Resistance to German occupation in France, Italy, etc.		1940 Trotsky assassinated
1947 Independence of India – beginning of postwar decolonization	1949 Chinese revolution
1950-53 Korean War	1959 Cuban revolution	1953 death of Stalin 1956 Hungary	Civil rights movt (US) Cuba solidarity	1953 split
1965 US escalates Vietnam War Wave of African decolonisation	1967 Death of Che 1968 10 million general strike in France 1969 Start of "Troubles" in North of Ireland	1961 Sino-Soviet split 1968 Czechoslovakia	Anti-war (US) Vietnam solidarity 1968 student radicalisation Paris, Mexico, Berlin, US etc 1969 Stonewall rebellion Women's liberation movement	1963 reunification 1964 LSSP enters bourgeois government, break with Fourth International 1969 guerrilla warfare orientation
1973 Pinochet coup 1975 US quits Vietnam, NLF victory 1976 death of Franco 1979 Iranian revolution Election Thatcher GB	1971 election Allende 1974 Portuguese revolution 1979 Nicaragua		Anti-apartheid Solidarity movements PLO/IRA Anti-racism/anti-fascism	1974 statutes 1979 women's liberation text 1979 turn to industry 1979/85 socialist democracy text
1980 Election Reagan US 1989 Fall of Berlin wall	1984-85 British miners' strike	1980-81 Solidarnosc in Poland	Anti-missile movement Central America solidarity	break with US & Australian SWPs 1982 IEC resolution on youth orgs 1984 1st youth camp
1991 1st Gulf war 1994 end of apartheid	1994 Zapatista uprising 1995 French strikes 1998 Chávez president of Venezuela		1999 Seattle demo	1991 women's radicalisation in Latin America text Positive action text 1995 Building FI document
2003 invasion of Iraq	2002 Argentina 2003 Lula elected in Brazil		2001 1st WSF in Porto Alegre 2004 4th WSF in Mumbai	1995/2003 Ecology text 2003 lgbt text 2003 new statutes