Alec Dubree By alec dubree Period: Feb 1, 1700 to Feb 1, 1900 Industrial Revolution Feb 1, 1712 . 1st successful steam engine is built Feb 10, 1813 Mexico declares its independence Feb 1, 1831 Michael Faraday’s dynamo Feb 10, 1850 Taiping rebellion Feb 10, 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in India Feb 1, 1867 Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” Feb 10, 1868 The Meiji Restoration Feb 10, 1871 Franco-Prussian War Feb 10, 1898 Spanish-American War begins Period: Feb 10, 1899 to Feb 10, 1911 Boxer Rebellion Feb 10, 1904 Russo-Japanese War Feb 10, 1914 Franz Ferdinand is killed Feb 10, 1917 Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Feb 10, 1917 .U.S. joins WWI united states joined wwi after germany shot and sunck a passenger liner that was carrying american citizens. germany was also planing on haveing mexico attack the u.s. although in the war the u.s was nuteral in the eraly years of the war. Feb 10, 1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed Feb 10, 1922 Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy Feb 10, 1922 Russia becomes the USSR Feb 10, 1929 Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins Feb 10, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market crash Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Feb 10, 1939 Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins Dec 7, 1941 Japans attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 .U.S. declares war on Japan Feb 10, 1944 D-Day Feb 10, 1945 U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima Period: Feb 10, 1945 to Feb 10, 1949 Nuremberg trials are held Feb 10, 1948 Apartheid in South Africa Feb 10, 1949 Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China Period: Feb 10, 1950 to Feb 10, 1953 Korean War is fought Feb 10, 1959 Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba Feb 10, 1964 Vietnam War is fought Period: Feb 10, 1985 to Feb 10, 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR Feb 10, 1990 Persian Gulf War begins Feb 10, 1991 USSR collapses & Russia is back Feb 10, 1992 NAFTA is formed Feb 10, 1995 WTO is formed