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This is the battle where Charles Martel led the revolt of the Muslims who began to invade areas around Paris and other Eastern European lands.
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This Schism was the split in the Roman Empire between the Holy Roman Empire which was mainly Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.
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The Mongols have been invading China and becoming a stronger force to deal with. The Molgols finally started their own dynasty called the Yuan Dynasty,
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This is a disease that spread over the trade routes and wiped out one third of the European population.
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The was a time under the rule of Elizabeth where expansion and exploration were big in the new world.
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The British and French have always been rivals. The French acted on this rivalry by getting involved in the fighting in America. The British however won this war.
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This is the day American finally declared independence from Britain and became its own country.
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The British wanted to trade with the Chinese and were only accepted by the public if they sold Opium, which the locals were addicted to. However, the Chinese government wated to stop this trade, causin the Opium Wars.
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This is a time in Japanese history where they were moving toward westernization to become a bigger world power.
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America finally decided to enter the second world war on the side of the allies on this date after the Zimmermann telegram and the sinking of Lusitania.
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At this time Mohandas Ghandi began his passive resistance movement in India to unite the Hindus and Muslims in the country.
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The Great Depression was a time in world history where the stock markets of the world crashed because people and countries were spending money that didn't exhist.
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Japan surprised America by bombing the naval base of Pearl Harbor. As a result America declared war on Japan.
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America, England, and Canada launched their attack on the beaches of Normandy on this day as a part of World War 2.
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The Cold War was a time when the Soviet Union and the United States competed in many areas of life like science for example. This cometition never turned violent however giving it the name of the Cold War.
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This is the day that President Truman ordered that the atomic bomb to be dropped in Japan on Hiroshima.
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This plan was put into action by the United States to help European countries recover economically. Billions of dollars were made available to the European countries.
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This war was a result of the Soviet North Korea invading the Democratic South Korea to unite the two under one power.
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This is when Presidant Kennedy authorized a small force of Cuban exiles to attack Cuba.
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This was the climax of the Cold War. Cuba was spotted to have nuclear missles that they said they would use. America said that if missles were launched they would invade the Soviet Union. The situation was diffused without war.
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This very short war was a result of the conflict between the incoming Jews and the already settled Muslims living in Israel.
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The decline of communism in the Soviet bloc allowed East Germany to cut it's ties with the Soviet Union and reunite with West Germany. This was all made official with the destruction of the dividing wall.
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This event was when members of Al Qaeda overtook some planes and drove them into the twin towers that eventually collapsed and killed many people.
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The day where all of the studying was finally put to the test, literally.
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Buddhism splits into the two groups of Theravada and Mahayana as a result of conflict over the successor.
