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  • Dec 24, 1430

    Age of Exploration: 1430-1700

  • Dec 24, 1440

    The Renaissance: 1440's-1600's

  • Dec 24, 1455

    War of the Roses: 1455-1485

  • Dec 24, 1492

    Reconquista: 1492

  • Dec 24, 1517

    Protestant Reformation: 1517-1648

  • Dec 24, 1525

    Peasants Revolt in Germany: 1525

  • Dec 24, 1545

    Catholic Reformation: 1545-1648

  • Dec 24, 1550

    Scientific Revolution: 1550-1700

  • Dec 24, 1562

    Frist French War of Religion: 1562-1598

  • Dec 24, 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: 1572

  • Thirty Years War- 1618-1648

  • English Civil War- 1642-1651

  • Glorious Revolution- 1688-1698

  • Enlightenment- 1690-1780

  • War of Spanish Succession- 1701-1714

  • War of Austrian Succession- 1740-1748

  • Seven Years War- 1754-1763

  • French and Indian War-1756-1763

  • Pugachev’s Rebellion- 1773-1775

  • American Revolution- 1775-1783

  • First Industrial Revolution- 1780-1850

  • French Revolution- 1789-1799

  • Romanticism- 1790-1850

  • Reign of Terror- 1793-1794

  • Napoleonic Wars- 1803-1815

  • Napoleon Bonaparte is voted emperor of France for life- 1803

  • Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe- 1814

  • Bourbon Monarch is Restored- 1816

  • Young Italy was formed- 1830’s

  • Victorian Era- 1837-1901

  • Revolutions in France, Germany & Austria- 1848

  • Communist Manifesto was Written- 1848

  • Unification of Italy- 1848-1870

  • Unification of Germany-1850-1871

  • Harriet Beech Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin-1852

  • Crimean War- 1853-1856

  • American Civil War- 1861-1865

  • Austro-Prussian War- 1866

  • Franco-Prussian War- 1870-1871

  • Greatest period of economic growth in the US- 1870-1900

  • Second Industrial Revolution- 1870-1914

  • New Imperialism- 1870-1914

  • Congress of Berlin-1878

  • Japan turns militaristic- 1890-1930

  • Russo-Japanese War- 1904

  • World War I- 1914-1918

  • Sinking of the Lusitania- 1915

  • February Revolution, March Revolution and Bolshevik Revolution- 1917

  • Wilson’s 14 Points- 1918

  • Paris Peace Conference/Signing of the Congress of Berlin - 1919

  • Suffrage for Women- 1920

  • Japan takes Manchuria- 1931

  • Hitler withdraws Germany from League of Nations; Geneva Disarmament Conference- 1933

  • Germany rebuilds military; Italy invades Ethiopia- 1935

  • Haile Selassie at the League of Nations; Germany occupies Rhineland; Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty-1936

  • Japan invades China- 1937

  • Anschluss; Munich Conference -1938

  • World War II- 1939-1945

  • Germany invades Czechoslovakia; Hitler-Stalin Pact; British French Ultimatum; Germany invades Poland; GB and France declare war on Germany; Soviet Union invades Poland- 1939

  • All of W Europe falls to Blitzkrieg; Tripartite Pact; German invasion of N. Africa; Battle of Britain begins- 1940

  • German army rescues the Italian army in the Balkans; New Order, Final Solution, Holocaust; Germany invades the Soviet Union; death camps in Soviet Union; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; Germany declares war on US- 1941

  • Battle of Midway; North Africa campaign; formation of the Allied Command; Free French; Allied Bombing strategy; V Rockets; Germany first-Island Hopping- 1942

  • Allied invasion of Italy; Battle of Stalingrad; Tehran Conference- 1943

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler; Normandy Invasion; Iwo Jima; Battle of the Bulge- 1944

  • Yalta Conference; Germany surrenders; Manhattan Project; Potsdam Conference/Ultimatum; Hiroshima and Nagasaki- 1945

  • Nuremburg Trials- 1945-1946

  • Truman Doctrine Issued- 1947

  • Cold War- 1947-1991

  • Marshall Plan- 1948

  • Berlin Airlift- 1948-1949

  • NATO is formed- 1949

  • Khruschev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union- 1953

  • Civil Rights Movement- 1954-1968

  • Vietnam War- 1955-1975

  • Europe Economic Community was created- 1957

  • Eisenhower Doctrine issued- 1957

  • 1960: Feminist Movement

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion- 1961

  • Cuban Missile Crisis- 1962

  • Beginning of the British Invasion- 1962

  • JFK’s assassination- 1963

  • March on Washington- 1964

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution- 1964

  • Mid 1960's: Prague Spring- Czechoslovakia

  • 1966: issue of Algeria wanting to be independent from France with Charles de Gaulle as leader who withdraws France from NATO, declining its power

  • 1966: Leonid Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as SU leader

  • 6 Day War-1967

  • 1967: Six Day War (Arabs and Israelis)

  • 1970's: Watergate Scandal

  • US and North Vietnam agree to gradually withdraw their troops- 1973

  • 1973: OAPEC (Arab countries place oil embargo on US because they support Israel)

  • 1973: Détente (and Helsinki Accords)

  • 1975: Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Camp David Accords

  • 1977: Feminists' Movement (Roe vs. Wade)

  • 1978: Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • 1979: Maastricht Treaty

  • 1980's: Reaganomics (Ronald Reagan) and Margaret Thatcher (accomplishments)

  • 1980's: Mujahjadeen begin civil war against Afghanistan's communist government

  • 1980's: Mikhail Gorbachev- leader of SU who is the "New Communist"

  • 1980's: perestroika and glasnost

  • 1980's: Boris Yeltsin- elected president of Russia

  • 1980's: Green Movement

  • 1980's: Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution/Red Guard

  • 1990's-2000's: terrorism (9/11, Osama Bin Laden)