1750-2000 By natrobes Period: 1750 to 1800 High Point of Atlantic Slave trade Period: 1760 to 1789 First Industrial Revolution Period: 1775 to 1783 American Revolution Period: 1789 to 1799 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution Period: 1804 to 1825 Latin American Wars of Independence Period: 1804 to 1817 Islamic Revolutions in West Africa 1825 Latin American independence from colonial rule Period: 1840 to 1842 First Opium War 1848 Publication of Karl Marx Communist Manifesto 1848 Women's rights convention 1858 Britain takes control of India Period: 1859 to 1871 Charles Darwin presents evolution ideas Period: 1861 to 1865 U.S Civil War 1863 Emancipation Proclamation in U.S 1868 Meiji Restoration Period: 1870 to 1871 Unification of Italy and Germany Period: 1870 to 1914 Second Industrial Revolution Period: 1875 to 1900 European "Scramble for Africa" 1885 Berlin Conference Period: 1910 to 1921 Mexican Revolution 1914 Duke Franz Ferdinand assasinated Period: 1914 to 1918 World War 1 Jan 10, 1920 League of Nations created 1921 Founding of Chinese Communist Party Period: 1929 to 1933 Great Depression Period: 1939 to 1945 World War 2 Period: 1939 to 1945 Holocaust 1945 United Nations created 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings from the U.S 1947 Start of Cold War Aug 15, 1947 Partition of India Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam War 1958 Chinese Great Leap Forward Period: Oct 16, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Period: 1966 to 1976 Chinese Cultural revolutions 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall 1989 End of Cold War 1990 Fall of USSR