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Industrial Revolution
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1st successful steam engine is built
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Mexico declares its independence
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Micheal Faraday's dynamo
Micheal Faraday is the once that discovered the connection between magnetism and electricity. Then he created the dynamo, this machine that generated electricity by moving a magnet through a coil of copper wire. Faraday used this electricity to power an electric motor and doing that led to the development of electrical generators. -
Taiping rebellion
This rebellion was lead by Hong Xiuquan. Hong believed he was the brother of Jesus and because of that he wanted to create a "Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace," where no one could be poor. Hong and his followers captured large territories in southeastern China adnd controlled the city of Najing. Qing soldiers, and French and British armies, attached Hong and his followers and the Taiping army was defeaed. Even though the Qing army won, the cost was great, mroe than 20 million chinese died.. -
Sepoy Mutiny in India
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Karl Marx "Das Kapital"
"Das Kapital" is in three parts where Marx put out is arguments against capitalism. Marx thought there should be a direct comection between one's work and one's pay. He also thought that socialism would not happen very quickly because mayny people, especially weather people, would not see any benefits. He said that one of capitalisms evils is how capitalism disrupt the relationship between labor and profit. -
The Mejing Restoration
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Franco-Prussian War
A conflict was happening with France over the disputed territory of Alsac and Loraine which has been a part of the Holy Roman Empire which included Prussia. The issues over Alsace and Lorraine started the feelings of nationalism in the south German States. Those states supported Prussia and the north German states. Then with the south German states help, Bismark secured a Prussian victory. Prussia won the war, and the peace treaty declared the unification of Germany. -
Spanish-American War begins
In February, the U.S, battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and the U.S immediately assumed that Spain was responsible. For spain, the war as a disaster. Cuba defeated Spain, the Spanish fleets were distroyed in the Philippines and Cuba. Within three months, the United States won the war. -
Boxer rebellion
Chinas humiliation by the west produced several nationalist movements who's intent were to restore Chinas glory. The most important group was the Harmonious Fists, or Boxers. The rebillion started when the Boxers started attaching missionaries and Chinese coverts to Chrisianity. In 1900's they laid sige to the foreign compunds in Beijing and held them hostage for 55 days. A few weeks later, foreign torrps of 20,000, captured Beijing adn suppressed the uprising. -
Russo-Japanese War
The war was caused by Russian competition with Japan over influence in Manchuria and Korea. Even though the Japanese won many battles, they couldn't get the Russians to surrender. Instead of surrendering, they two sides asked the U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt to help negotiate a peace treaty. The treaty gabe Japan control over Russian railway lines. -
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
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Russia becomes the USSR
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Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins
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Black Tuesday Stock Market crash
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
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U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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Nuremberg trials are held
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Apartheid 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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Vietnam War is fought
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Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba
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Persian Gulf War begins
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Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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USSR collapses & Russia is back
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NAFTA is formed
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WTO is formed