(1800's-1900's) By __TheChosen_1 Period: 1729 to 1796 Catherine the Great Period: 1815 to 1890 Colonism In Asia Period: 1839 to 1842 Opium War I 1845 German Unification Period: 1845 to 1847 Great Famine Period: 1847 to 1922 Alexander Bell Period: 1847 to 1931 Thomas Edison Period: 1856 to 1860 Opium War Period: 1870 to 1871 Franco-Prussian War Period: 1877 to 1878 Russo-Turkish War Period: 1884 to 1885 Scramble for Africa Period: 1894 to 1895 Sino-Japanese 1908 Young Turk 1914 Schlieffen Plan Period: 1915 to 1923 Armenian Genocide 1919 Treaty of Versailles 1920 League of Nations 1923 Creation of Isreal and Egypt 1932 Japan invades Manchuria Period: 1932 to 1939 Neutrality Acts 1935 Italy invades Abyssinia 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia Period: 1936 to 1938 The Great Purge 1938 Hitler got Sudetenland Munich agreement 1938 Germany and Austria unite 1939 Germany invades Poland 1939 Britain declares war Period: 1939 to 1940 Phoney War Period: 1940 to 1940 Blitzkreig Period: 1940 to 1941 Britain stands alone 1941 Germany attacks Russia 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor 1942 Battle of Midway 1942 Battle of El-Alamein 1943 Battle of Stalingrad 1944 D-Day 1944 Battle of the Bulge 1945 Germany surrendered Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki Aug 15, 1945 Japan surrendered 1947 Paris peace treaties 1947 Formation of United Nations Period: 1958 to 1963 The Great Leap Foward Period: 1966 to 1669 Cultural Revolution