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Industrial Revolution
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1st successful steam engineis built
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Mexico declasres its independence
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Michael Faraday`s Dynamo
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Taiping Rebellion
1.) Followers along with himself southeastern terriotories in China.
2.) They eventually took over the city of Nanjing.
3.) The Taiping army was defeated by British and French soldiers in 1864. -
Sepoy Mutiny in India
1.) The British used Indians called Sepoys in their army.
2.) There were guns being made which led to the new British Rifle.
3.) The Muslims and the Hindu sepoys were greatly offended that pork and beef fat were used to grease the ammunision cartridge. -
Karl Marx`s "Das Kapital"
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Franco-Prussian War
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Russo-Japanese War
1.) The Japanese won this war and left everyone in shock.
2.) Japan did not like the idea of Russia being around when they were trying top build an empire, so they saw them as a threat.
3.) The conflict began because Russia started to expand in the east, which is where Japan`s imperial empire is. -
The Meiji Restoration
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Spanish-American War begins
1.) The american army slaughtered the Spanish in Cuba.
2.) It only took 3 months for the Americans to win this war.
3.) The Americans destroyed all of the Spanish navy fleets in Cuba and the Philippines. -
Boxer Rebellion
1.) This began all because the missionaries were being attacked by boxers and covert to Christianity.
2.) Hostages were held for 55 days by the boxers in foreign compounds the lyed in Beijing.
3.) The Chinese governent was fined secrectly standing behind the boxers. -
Franz Ferdinand is killed
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Lenin`s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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U.S. joins WWI
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Treaty of Versailles is signed
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Mussolini`s Fascist Party in Italy
1.) it is a type of government that makes sure the good is put before everything else.
2.) fascist are ruled by a dictator who makes all the major decisions.
3.) it was an important factor in Italian Politics. -
Russia becomes the USSR
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Stalin`s rule in the USSR begins
1.) Stalin came up with the five year plan.
2.) he had the state set laws for all of the mines and factories around.
3.) his five year plan increased the output of the soviet industries. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market crash
1.) investors sold off 16 million dollars in shares.
2.) the stock prices fell drastically because no body wanted to but the shares that were overflowing.
3.) banks fell deep in depth and were financially falling to the ground because of lending money to investors. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1.) hitler basically bullied his way into control.
2.) hitler formed the Nazi Propaganda, and it got young germans to idolize hitler and worship him.
3.) hitler blamed the jews for everything that went wrong in germany! -
Germany attacks Poland-WWII begins
1.) the germans called their movement to this war a blitzkrieg meaning 'lightening war' in german.
2.) germans flew planes first and sent troops in on foot behind the aircrafts at fast speeds.
3.) poland was defeated and germany took over. -
Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
1.) Japan had been planning this secret attack for a while.
2.) the attack began early Sunday morning of December 7, 1941.
3.) the American military had no clue about the Japanese aircrafts flying towards them. -
U.S. declares war on Japan
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U.S. drops a bomb on Hiroshima
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D-Day
1.) the allies were making final decisions for their plan to invade western Europe.
2.) George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower led the attack.
3.) on the first day there were well over 150,000 troops land on the shore of the beaches in Normandy. -
Nuremberg trials are held
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Aparthied in South Africa
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Mao Zedong`s people`s republic of China
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Korean War is fought
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Fidel Castro`s communism in Cuba
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Vietnam War is fought
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Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
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USSR collapses and Russia is back
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Persian Gulf War begins
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NAFTA is formed
1.) its actual name is 'north american free trade agreement'.
2.) many countries belong to NAFTA.
3.) NAFTA is very useful. -
WTO is formed
1.) Moere than 150 countries are part of the WTO.
2.) it helps to dispute and resolve trades nationally.
3.) it replaced the GATT.
