AD 1800- present By estradac21 1848 Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto Period: 1868 to 1870 Ecumencial Council of the Vatican 1903 Bolshevik party formed in Russia 1914 World War I begins 1917 Three children at Fatima, Portugal, are granted visions of the Virgin Mary 1922 Soviet Union is formed 1926 The first Catholic bishops in China are ordained 1933 Hitler beomes chancellor of Germany; first Nazi concentration camp is opened 1939 Word War II begins 1940 Communist governments begin persecutions and mass murder across Europe and Asia Period: 1962 to 1965 Ecumenical Council of the Vatican 1973 The US Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects the right ot an abortion 1989 The Soviet Union begins to fall