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Industrial Revolution
Was the new manufacturing processes in this period. It's the transition from hand production methods to machines. New chemical and iron production. Impoved efficiency of water power, increasing steam power. -
1st successful steam engine is built
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Michael Faraday’s dynamo
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Mexico declares its independence
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Taiping rebellion
Was a massive civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, with the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. Millenarian movement led by Hong Xiuquan, who announced that he had received visions. Hong established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with its capital at Nanjing. -
Sepoy Mutiny in India
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Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”
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The Meiji Restoration
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Franco-Prussian War
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Spanish-American War begins
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Boxer Rebellion
This was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement. Although women were not allowed to join the Boxer units they formed their own groups, the Red Lanterns. -
Russo-Japanese War
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Franz Ferdinand is killed
His death led to a chain of events that started WW1.He was killed by a 19 year old member of "Young Bosnia" a group od assasins organized by the group the "Black Hand'. -
Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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Russia becomes the USSR
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U.S. joins WWI
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Treaty of Versailles is signed
This was 1 of the peace traties that ended WW1. The treaty made allowances fro Germany to pay reparations to certain countries that hd fromed the Entente powers , the total cost being 132 billion marks, roughly 442 billion U.S. dollars -
Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy
Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of "fascism" He was hung upside down at a service station for public viewing and to provide confirmtion of his demise -
Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins
The concept of "socialism is one country" became a central tenet of Soviet society. Economic changes in this period of time coincided with the imprisonment of millions of people in soviet correctional camps. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market crash –
this was the most devastating stock market crash in history. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10 year Great Depression -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Nuremberg trials are held
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Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2402 Americans were killed and 1282 were wounded.
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U.S. declares war on Japan
Response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. It was decided an hour after the a speech address by Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
D-Day
Inclement weather helped with the "surprise" of the attack. The Germans felt an attack was impossible due to the weather. There were decoy operations takinf place along with the landing on Normandy -
U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
This bomb killed 90,000 to 166,000 people in the first 2 to 4 months after the bombing.The airplane the Enola Gay dropped the bomb nicknamed the "Little Boy -
Apartheid in South Africa
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa, and was an official policy introduced following the general election of 1948. The official abolishment of Apartheid was in 1990, most feel it did not end until 1994 -
Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China
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Korean War is fought
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Vietnam War is fought
This war was ended with the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. North Vietnamese women fought in combat zones as well as performing mauual labor . -
Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
He was the 7th and last undisputed leader of the Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 -
Persian Gulf War begins
Codename was "Operation Desert Storm". 34 nations participated in this war, led by the United States. -
USSR collapses & Russia is back
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NAFTA is formed
The goal of NAFTA was to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. NAFTA established the CANAMEX corrider for road transport between Canada and Mexico -
WTO is formed
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Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba
