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1850-1920

By Elidiaavelar1
  • Cecil Rhodes Arrives In South Africa

    Cecil Rhodes Arrives In South Africa

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    The Age Of Imperialism

  • Great Britain gains control of the Suez Canal

  • Berlin Conference

    Berlin Conference

    Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa

  • The British Foreign Secretary, Lord Granville, recognizes Portugal's claim to both banks at the mouth of the Congo.

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    Congo Free state

  • 254 Europeans reside in the Congo

    254 Europeans reside in the Congo

  • French Indochina created

    French Indochina created

  • Queen Liliuokalani Dethroned

    Queen Liliuokalani Dethroned

  • Open door Policy

  • Boer War

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    Boxer Rebellion

  • 2943 Europeans in the Congo

  • Congo Free State Ceases to Exisit

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    The Great War: WWI

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo.

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo.

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany Declares war on France then Russia

  • UK declares war on Germany after invasion of Belgium

  • U.S announces Neutrality

    U.S announces Neutrality

  • Battle of Marne begins Trench Warfare

    Battle of Marne begins Trench Warfare

  • Christmas Truce

    Christmas Truce

  • Poison gas first used by Germany at The Second Battle of Ypres

    Poison gas first used by Germany at The Second Battle of Ypres

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    Russian Revolution

  • Zimmerman Telegram sent to Mexico from Germany

    British intercept
  • February Revolution begins at Petrograd

    February Revolution begins at Petrograd

  • Mikhail announces refusal to throne

  • Lenin returns from exile

    Lenin returns from exile

  • U.S declares war on Germany

  • Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government

    Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government

  • October Revolution- the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd

  • Winter Palace taken by Bolsheviks

    Winter Palace taken by Bolsheviks

  • The Bolsheviks successfully overthrow the Russian government during the 1917 Russian Revolution.

  • Fourteen Points- Wilson

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk- takes Russia out of WWI

    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk- takes Russia out of WWI

  • Treaty of Versailles ends The Great War

    Treaty of Versailles ends The Great War

  • Russian Civil War

  • Czar Nicholas executed

    Czar Nicholas executed

  • German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany.

    German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany.

  • Germany Signs Armistice

  • Russian Civil War ends

  • USSR Established

  • Southern Africa becomes the largest diamond supplier in the World

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