Conner Holt By holtcon Feb 17, 1700 Industrial Revolution Feb 17, 1712 1st sucessful steam engine was built Feb 17, 1821 Mexico declares it's independence Feb 17, 1831 Michael Faraday's dynamo Feb 17, 1850 Taiping Rebellion Feb 17, 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in India Feb 17, 1867 Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" Feb 17, 1868 The Meiji Restoration Feb 17, 1870 Franco-Prussian War Feb 17, 1898 Spanish-American War begins Feb 17, 1900 Persian Gulf War begins Feb 17, 1900 Boxer Rebellion Feb 17, 1904 Russo-Japanese War Feb 17, 1914 Franz Ferdinand is killed Feb 17, 1917 Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Feb 17, 1917 U.S. joins WWI Feb 17, 1918 Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy Feb 17, 1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed Feb 17, 1922 Russia becomes the USSR Feb 17, 1928 Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins Feb 17, 1928 Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins Feb 17, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market crash Feb 17, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Feb 17, 1939 WWII begins Feb 17, 1939 Germany attacks Poland Feb 17, 1941 Japans attack on Pearl Harbor Feb 17, 1941 U.S. declares war on Japan Feb 17, 1944 D-Day Feb 17, 1945 Nuremberg trials are held Feb 17, 1945 U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima Feb 17, 1948 Apartheid in South Africa Feb 17, 1949 Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China Feb 18, 1950 Korean War is fought Feb 18, 1954 Vietnam War is fought Feb 18, 1959 Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba Feb 18, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR Feb 18, 1991 USSR collapses & Russia is back Feb 18, 1994 NAFTA is formed Feb 18, 1995 WTO is formed