Pt #4 World Happenings

After the genocide the world did not react because the world did know because it was covered up by Germany. The genocide was not taught in colonization history of the area.

At the time there were 5 major world powers in Europe Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, and Britain. At the beginning of the genocide Russia was in a war with Japan.

                        1904

• Feb. 10 - Japanese attack surprises Russians. Japanese attack Port Arthur (of Russia) with torpedoes.

• March 31- Russian fleet destroyed near Vladivostok. Russian naval power in the Far East has been virtually eliminated.

Henry M. Stanley

• May 9 - Henry Stanley is dead. Sir. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, adventurer and journalist. Died in London today.

• June 15 - Ship burns: 693 die, many children. A pleasure outing turned into an inferno today when fire consumed the excursion steamer General Slocum.

• July 31 - Trans-Siberian finished. The Trans Siberian railroad that reaches from the Ural Mountains to the Russian Pacific Coast is finished after thirteen years.

• Aug. 30 – Russians failing fast. Port Arthurs fall to the Japanese appears imminent.

• Aug. 31 – 1904 St. Louis. The 3^rd modern day Olympics occur.

Subway in New York

• Oct. 27 - New York City subway formally opened as thousands of citizens ride first day.

• Dec.10 – Ivan Pavlov wins Nobel Prize for stimulus studies with dogs.

                      

1905

• Jan. 22 – Bloody Sunday: Terror in Russia Czarists troops fire on workers in front of the Winter Palace.

• May 28 – Disaster strikes Russia at Tsushima. Russia’s last hope, Admiral Rojestvensky’s fleet, has been defeated in Tsushima.

Russian Ship Potamkin

• June 27 – Mutiny on Potemkin. The red flag of revolution waves over the Potemkin.

• July 24 – Emperors agree on pact. A meeting was established to bring about an alliance between Germany and Russian.

• Sept 5 – Treaty ends Russian-Japanese War. The Japanese and Russian empires signed the Treaty of Portsmouth today.

• Nov 8 - Jews massacred; Americans raise aid. More than 1’000 Jews were killed in Odessa, Russia.

Daniel, Clifton, ed. Chronicle of the 20th Century. Mount Kisco, NY: Chronicle Publications, 1987. Print.