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The Industril Revolution started in Great Britain for three reasons; it had a lot of coal and iron to power factories and engines, there were wealthy men for investments and displaced farmers needed jobs in the city. During the Industrial Revolution the use of machines grew very rapidly. Instead of working on land, on farms, there were more jobs in factories.
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A priest that lived in a small town in southern Mexico named Miguel Hidalgo, made a first public call for Mexican independence in 1810. Inspired by efforts by Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin, leading independence movements across South America, revolutions flared up, causing a dozen nations to declare independence. The man who made the independence happen in Mexico was a creole military leader.
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Hong Xiuquan bealived he was the brother of Jesus and wanted to make a Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace where no one would be poor. The followers of Hong Xiuquan formed the movement called the Taiping Rebellion. More than 20 million Chinese died during the rebellion because French and British armies attacked deafeating the the Taiping army.
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Karl Marx beleived that capitalism would collapse and that workers would eventually govern themselves. In Das Capital Karl Marx put in his arguments about capitalism. He thought that capitalism disrupted the relationship between working and making money.
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When a US battleship exploded randomly, Americans blamed Spain saying that they were responsible. Spain didn't have a lot of luck with the war because within a month the US had won the war. In the treaty that ended the war, the US got Puerto Rico and Guam.
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To end the Russo-Japenese War, both sides asked US president, Theodore Roosevelt to help with a peace treaty, called the Treaty of Portsmouth. The treaty allowed Japan control over Russian railway lines. When Japan had defeated Russia a big celebration happened, showing that Asian power could beat European.
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The Russian army rebelled against each other, killing their own men because of a failed militray order. Since the army was weak, Lenin saw this as good time for a takeover. Eventually he took over the government and quickly created a Communist program.
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The treay was signed at the French Palace of Versailles, that's why it is named the Treaty of Versailles. the treaty was pretty much against Germany. Germany was forced to pay a lot of money, it weakened Germany, it forced them to weaken the size of their military and Germany had to return to conquered lands.
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When Russia's government started to improve, Russia reunited with neighboring lands. When they reunited Russia became a new country called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (The Soviet Union). During the time of the ecomnomy becoming stronger, Lenin was getting sick and eventually died from several strokes, which led to struggle of control for the USSR.
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In 1923, Hitler got thrown in prison for trying to overthrow the German government, while in prison he wrote a book decribing his political ideas. When Hitler was released form prison, the great depression has Germany in a hole and they needed a strong leader. Hitler promised that he would improve things for Germany so he was appointed chancellor, the most powerful post in the German goverment.
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Japan attacked Pearl Habor because there was a US naval base there. The surprise attack lasted less than 2 hours, but over 2,000 Americans died, 200 aircrafts were destryoed and the 8 battleships were damaged or sunk. Americans knew that the base was lightly armed but they didn't expect an attack.
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In the Nuremberg trials hundreds of Nazis and military officials were tried in court. Many were sentened to deather because of the crimes commited in the holocaust and other war crimes. The Soviet Union received a large share of pay from Germnay because of their destruction from the war.
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The policy of apartheid meant apartness, this caused racial disciminiation to heighten. Races were split into groups, interracial marriages were banned and there were further restrictions on African ownership of land and buisnesses. Blacks made up 75% of the South African population but could not vote or hold political voice and they were restricted to certain jobs with little pay.
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North Korea attacked South Korea wanting to unite the countries, hoping for a Communist expansion. North Korea took over most of South Korea but The United Nations became involved and pushed the Koreans back far into the North Korea. The war shifted again when Chinese forces helped Nother Korean forces, pushing The United Nations out of North Korea.
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Fidel Castro overthrew cuba's dictator. Because of this new governent that Castor formed, the US became worried and trained over 1,000 Cubans to overthrow Castro. The US thought the Cubans would be against Castro, but instead they were defeated.
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