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SOVIET PERIOD |
| 1920 |
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| November 22 |
President Woodrow Wilson presents
his delineation of the borders of Armenia. A week later Armenia is
partitioned by Turkish Nationalist forces and Sovietized by Russian
Bolsheviks. |
| 1921 |
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| March 15 |
Talaat is assassinated in Berlin
by an Armenian student, Soghomon Tehlirian. Talaat had been condemned
to death by the Turkish court martial on July 11, 1919. (In 1943,
the Turkish government removed the remains of Talaat from Nazi Germany
and enshrined them with great ceremony on Liberty Hill in Constantinople.) |
| June 1-3 |
The German Foreign Office obstructs
the former German Consul at Aleppo, Rossler, from testifying in the
Berlin court trying Talaat's assassin.
Tehlirian is acquitted. |
| December 6 |
Said Halim is assassinated in Rome. |
| 1922 |
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Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist
Republic combines Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as single republic
within Soviet Union. |
| April 7 |
Jemal Azmi, the governor-general
of during the massacres, and Behaeddin Shakir are assassinated
in Berlin. |
| July 25 |
Jemal Pasha, the former Minister
of the Marine and the Fifth Army commander in Syria, is assassinated
in Tiflis (Tbilisi). |
| September 13 |
The burning of Smyrna by the Turks.
Within 24 hours, 50,000 houses, 24 churches, 28 schools, 5 consulates,
7 clubs, 5 banks, and an unknown number of stores and warehouses are
destroyed. |
| November 20 |
The first Lausanne Conference is
convened. |
| 1923-1987 |
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| July 24 |
Treaty of Lausanne signed by Turkey
and the Allies excludes all mention of Armenia or the Armenians. The
new Turkish Nationalist state is extended international recognition.
The Ottoman Empire goes out of existence. |
| October 29 |
The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed
by the Turkish Grand National Assembly with Mustafa Kemal as its President. |
| 1936 |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
become separate republics within Soviet Union. |
| 1936-37 |
Purges under political commissar
Lavrenti Beria reach their peak in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. |
| 1939 |
While addressing his military commanders
at Obersalzburg, a week before the invasion of Poland, and the start
of World War II, Adolph Hitler speaks of his orders "to kill
without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race
or language," and concludes his remarks by saying: "WHO
STILL TALKS NOWADAYS OF THE EXTERMINATION OF THE ARMENIANS?" |
| 1943 |
Autonomy restored to Georgian Orthodox
Church. |
| 1946 |
Western powers force Soviet Union
to abandon Autonomous Government of Azerbaijan, formed in 1945 after
Soviet occupation of northern Iran. |
| 1956 |
General Dro Dies |
| 1959 |
Nikita S. Khrushchev purges Azerbaijani
Communist Party. |
| 1969 |
Heydar Aliyev named head of Azerbaijani
Communist Party. |
| ca. 1970 |
Zviad Gamsakhurdia begins organizing
dissident Georgian nationalists. |
| 1972 |
Eduard Shevardnadze named first secretary
of Georgian Communist Party. |
| 1974 |
Moscow installs regime of Karen Demirchian
in Armenia to end party corruption; regime later removed for corruption. |
| 1978 |
Mass demonstrations prevent Moscow
from making Russian an official language of Georgia. |
| 1982 |
Aliyev of Azerbaijan named full member
of Politburo of Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 1985 |
Shevardnadze named minister of foreign
affairs of Soviet Union and leaves post as first secretary of Georgian
Communist Party. |
| Late 1980s |
Mikhail S. Gorbachev initiates policies
of glasnost and perestroika throughout Soviet Union. |