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Sepoy Rebellion (Imperialism)
Britain controlled most of India in the 1850s. They treated the Indians as servants. When Sepoys (Indian soldiers) learned that the cartridges for their new rifles provided by the British were greased with pork and beef fat, they refused to use them. The British imprisoned the Sepoys. The Indian people were outraged and rebellion against the British began. The Sepoys captured the city of Delhi. There was fierce fighting, and the British regained control a year later. -
British Empire (Imperialism)
British Empire seizes control over India -
Suez Canal (Imperialism)
The Suez Canal is a human-made waterway to connect the Red Sea with the Mediterranean. It was opened in 1869 with international celebration because of the quick access it would allow for trade and for European countries to connect with African colonies. It was funded by French investors and taken over by the British. The British then insisted on financial control of the canal. -
Italy and Rome (Imperialism)
Italy takes Rome and claims it as it's capital. -
Berlin Conference (Imperialism)
The Berlin Conference regulated European trade and colonization in the African continent without the consent of the tribes and civilizations of Africa, -
Spain in Africa (Imperialsim)
Spain starts to claim the Western Sahara. -
Ethiopia (Imperialism)
Ethiopia is the only African country to defeat invading colonists. Emperor Menelik II was the leader of Ethiopia, and he successfully played European countries against each other while stockpiling weapons for his country. When the Italians invaded, he declared war and successfully defeated them in the Battle of Adowa. -
Boer War (Imperialism
The Boer War was fought between the British and the Boers, who were Dutch settlers of South Africa. The British wanted to control this same area that the Boers had settled, particularly when diamonds and gold were discovered there. This was the first modern "total" war. Britain won in 1910. -
Friedrich Nietzsche (Age of Axiety)
He claimed God was dead and only men who he said were "supermen" could only reform the world. Later he became the largest influence to Hitler. -
Surrealism (Age Of Anxiety)
The movement to release the potential of the unconscious mind as far as creativity. -
Africa (Imperialism)
Africa has been conquered totally by the European States. -
Austria + Russia (WWI)
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia declares war on Germany. -
USA (WWI)
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces the U.S. will remain neutral. -
UK war zone (WWI)
The United Kingdom announces that the North Sea is a military area, effectively creating a blockade of goods into Germany. -
German and Great Britain (WWI)
Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets. -
Poision Gas (WWI)
The Second Battle of Ypres begins. It is during this battle that the Germans first use poison gas. -
Tanks (WWI)
The Battle of the Somme begins. During the Battle of the Somme, tanks are first introduced into battle. -
Zimmerman Telegram (WWI)
Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico in an effort to entice Mexico to join the war. The British intercept and decipher the coded message. -
Russian Tsar (WWI)
Russian Tsar Nicholas II abdicates. -
Marcel Duchamp (Age Of Anxiety)
Leader of Dadaism created tA oublic bathroom urinal -
Russia Treaty (WWI)
Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, which is a peace treaty between Russia and the Central Powers. -
Albert Einstein
Challenged newtons laws of physics and expanded the science field. -
Dadaism (Age Of Anxiety)
This was the movement that after the war the world no longer made sense. Followers would then lash out to all standards of art and start to do radical things. -
Georges Sorel (Age of Anxiety)
Believed Socialism would soon rise, which would cause a violent strike of the working class. This predicted the making of the Boshevik Revolution. -
Hitler (WWII)
Hitler becomes the Changellor of Germany -
Reichstag (WWII)
The Reichstag building, seat of the German government, burns after being set on fire by Nazis. This enabled Adolf Hitler to seize power under the pretext of protecting the nation from threats to its security. -
Enabling Act (WWII)
Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power. -
Adolf Hitler (WWII)
Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. -
Hitler Violation (WWII)
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription. -
Nuremberg Laws (WWII)
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. -
Freud (Age of Anxiety)
Devolped Freudian Psychology. He uncovered the knowledge of the part of the mind which he called the unconscious. -
Warsaw (WWII)
Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). -
Petain (WWII)
Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister. -
Henri Bergson (Age of Anxiety)
Spoke to young people and showed how important science was to understand reality. -
D-Day (WWII)
D-Day landings on the northern coast of France. -
Mao Zedong (Cold War)
Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China -
Stalin and Korea
Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons -
Warsaw Pact (Coldwar)
Warsaw Pact formed. First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev. -
Red Army (Coldwar)
Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution. -
Castro (Cold War)
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba, installs communist government. -
Missle Crisis (Cold War)
The Cuban Missle Crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. -
USA relations (Cold War)
U.S and China establish diplomatic relations. -
Polish Shipyard workers
Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity -
Gorbachev (Cold War)
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost andperestroika. -
Tiananmen Square (Cold War)
Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government. -
Gorbachev (1985-Present)
With a worsening economic situation, it set the stage for the emergence in 1985 of Mikhail Gorbachev, the most vigorous Soviet leader in a generation -
Reagan and Missles in Europe (1985-Present)
He sought to halt the arms race with the United States and convinced President Ronald Reagan of his sincerity and in December 1987, the two leaders agreed in a Washington summit to eliminate all land-based intermediate-range missiles in Europe (reduction) -
Gorbachev Pt.3 (1985-Present)
By late 1988, widespread consumer dissatisfaction posed a serious threat to Gorbachev’s leadership and the entire reform program (Gorbachev was soon to make major changes) -
Poland's Economy (1985-Present)
In 1988 widespread labor unrest, raging inflation, and the outlawed Solidarity’s refusal to cooperate w/ the military government had brought Poland to brink of economic collapse -
Democratization and Gorbachev (1985-Present)
Begging as an attack on corruption in the Communist party, Gorbachev and the party remained in control, but a minority of critical independents was elected in April 1989 to a revitalized Congress of People’s Deputies (millions of Soviets watched the new congress) -
East Germany (1985-Present)
In an attempt to stabilize the situation, the East Germany government opened the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and people danced atop that grim symbol of the prison state; East Germany’s aging Communist leaders were swept aside, and a reform government took power and schedule free elections in the following months following the change -
Velvet Revolution (1985-Present)
In Czechoslovakia, communism died in December 1989 in an outing of Communist bosses in only ten days; the so-called Velvet Revolution grew out of popular demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and a dissident playwright turned moral revolutionary, Vaclav Havel; protesters forced the Communist into a power-sharing arrangement which quickly resulted in the resignation of the communist government and the assembly elected Havel president -
Shock Therapy (1985-Present)
In economic affairs, the Solidarity-led government was radical from the beginning and applied shock therapy designed to make a clean break with state planning and move quickly to market mechanisms and private property (abolished controls on many prices on January 1, 1990, and reformed the monetary system with a “big bang”) -
Non-Russian Autonomy (1985-Present)
In early 1990, as competing Russian politicians presented their programs, and nationalists in the non-Russian republics demanded autonomy or independence from the Soviet Union, the Communist part suffered a stunning defeat in local elections throughout -
Reunification of Germany (1985-Present)
Finally, in the summer of 1990, the crucial international aspect of German unification was successfully resolved (unification would make Germany the strongest state in central Europe)