1800s and 1900s By savannaheverett21 1729 Catherine the Great Period: 1774 to 1775 Pugacheu Rebellion Period: 1839 to 1842 First Opium War 1843 The British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue Period: 1845 to 1849 Potato Famine Period: 1847 to 1922 Alexander Graham Bell Period: 1847 to 1931 Thomas Edison Period: 1850 to 1864 Taiping Rebellion Period: 1853 to 1856 Crimean War Period: 1856 to 1860 Second Opium War Period: 1870 to 1871 Franco-Prussian War Period: 1877 to 1878 Russo-Turkish War Period: 1915 to 1923 American Genocide Period: 1929 to 1940 Great Depression 1932 Japan invaded Manchuria Period: 1932 to 1939 America passed 5 Neutrality Acts 1935 Italy invaded Abyssinia Period: 1936 to 1938 The Great Purge 1939 Hitler occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia Period: 1939 to 1940 The Phoney War Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Invaded Poland Sep 3, 1939 Britain Declared War on Poland Period: 1940 to 1940 Blitzreig Period: 1940 to 1940 Britain withstood the German Air force in the Battle of Britain Period: 1940 to 1941 Britain and the Empire stands alone 1941 Hitler Invaded Russia 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 1942 Midway in the Pacific 1942 El-Alamein in Egypt 1943 Stalingrad in Russia 1944 D-Day May 7, 1945 Germany Surrendered Aug 6, 1945 Americans dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima Aug 15, 1945 VJ Day