AP EURO TIMELINE #thethreequel By lorcan_stack Apr 29, 1853 Perry "opens" Japan for trade Period: Apr 29, 1863 to Apr 29, 1879 Reign of Ismail in Egypt Period: Apr 29, 1865 to Apr 29, 1909 Reign of Leopold II in Belgium Apr 29, 1867 Meiji Restoration in Japan Apr 29, 1869 Completion of Suez Canal Apr 29, 1898 United States takes over Philippines Apr 29, 1898 "Hundred days of reform" in China Apr 29, 1899 Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" Apr 29, 1902 Conrad, Heart of Darkness Apr 29, 1912 First Balkan War May 27, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand Period: May 27, 1914 to May 27, 1918 WWI May 27, 1915 Ministry of Munitions established in Britain May 27, 1915 Italy and Bulagaria join WWI May 27, 1916 german males between 17 and 60 required to wrok for war effort May 27, 1916 Rasputin Murdered May 27, 1917 Russian reveloution May 27, 1919 Treaty of Versailles May 27, 1919 Keynes, "Economic Consequences of the Peace" Period: May 27, 1920 to May 27, 1930 Dadaism and surrealism (artistic movements) May 27, 1922 Mussolini seizes power in Italy May 27, 1923 French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr May 27, 1924 Dawes Plan Period: May 27, 1924 to May 27, 1929 Buildup of Nazi party in Germany May 27, 1926 Germany joins the League of Nations May 27, 1927 Stalin comes to power in U.S.S.R. May 27, 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact May 27, 1929 Start of collectivization in Soviet Union Period: May 27, 1929 to May 27, 1939 Great Depression May 27, 1932 Franklin Roosevelt elected U.S. president Period: May 27, 1932 to May 27, 1933 Famine in Ukraine May 27, 1933 Hitler appoiinted chancellor in Germany May 27, 1934 Sergei Kirov, Stalin's number-two man, is murdered May 27, 1935 Mussolini invades Ethiopia May 27, 1935 Creation of WPA as part of New Deal May 27, 1936 Formation of Popular Front in France May 27, 1947 Marshall Plan May 27, 1957 Formation of Common Market May 27, 1961 Building of the Berln Wall May 27, 1962 Cuban missile crisis May 27, 1964 Civil Rights Act in the U.S. Period: May 27, 1964 to May 27, 1973 U.S. involvement in Vietnam War May 27, 1966 Formation of NOW May 27, 1968 Student protests in Paris May 27, 1973 OPEC oil embargo Aug 27, 1989 Solidarity gains power in Poland Nov 27, 1989 Collapse of the Berlin Wall Dec 27, 1989 Velvet Reveloution ends communism in Czechoslovakia Period: May 27, 1990 to May 27, 1991 Gulf War Oct 27, 1990 Reunification of Germany Nov 27, 1990 Paris Accord May 27, 1991 Chechnya declares independance from Russian Federation; Russian army begins war Period: May 27, 1991 to May 27, 2001 Civil War in Yugoslavia Jul 27, 1991 Failed coup against Gorbechev in Russia
