Bailey Bowman By bowmanbay Feb 11, 1700 Industrial Revolution in the 1700s, conditions in Great Britain led to the rapid growth of the textile industy, which in turn led to huge changes in many other industries. Feb 11, 1712 1st successful steam engine is built The steam engine was very slow. It did progress over time, and got faster. Feb 11, 1821 Mexico declares its independence Feb 11, 1831 Michael Faraday’s dynamo Feb 11, 1853 Taiping rebellion Feb 11, 1857 Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital Feb 11, 1868 The Meiji Restoration Feb 11, 1870 Franco-Prussian War Feb 11, 1898 Spanish-American War begins Feb 11, 1900 Boxer Rebellion Feb 11, 1904 Russo-Japanese War Feb 11, 1914 Franz Ferdinand is killed Feb 11, 1917 Russia becomes the USSR Feb 11, 1917 U.S. joins WWI Feb 11, 1917 Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Feb 11, 1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed Feb 11, 1921 Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy Feb 18, 1927 Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins Feb 18, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market crash Feb 18, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Feb 18, 1939 Germany attacks Poland Feb 18, 1939 WWII begins Feb 18, 1941 Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Feb 18, 1941 U.S. declares war on Japan Feb 18, 1944 D-Day Feb 18, 1945 Nuremberg trials are held Feb 18, 1945 U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima Feb 18, 1948 Apartheid in South Africa Feb 18, 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, 1990 Persian Gulf War begins Feb 18, 1991 USSR collapses & Russia is back Feb 18, 1994 NAFTA is formed Feb 18, 1995 WTO is formed