apwh final By sophiaphillips Period: 1750 to 1900 Europe's Industrial Revolution Period: 1750 to 1800 High Point of the Atlantic Slave Trade Period: 1754 to 1763 Seven Year's War among European Great Powers Period: 1757 to 1858 East India Company governs India Period: 1775 to 1787 North American Revolution 1788 Ratification of United States Constitution 1788 Initial British Settlement in Australia Period: 1789 to 1799 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1793 Chinese reject British request for expanded trade Period: 1799 to 1814 Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte Period: 1808 to 1825 Latin American wars of independece Period: 1840 to 1842 First Opium War Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican-United States War Period: 1850 to 1864 Taiping Uprising in China Period: 1857 to 1858 Indian Revolution Period: 1858 to 1893 French conquest of Indochina Period: 1858 to 1947 British government rules India Period: 1859 to 1871 Charles Darwin presents ideas on evolution 1861 Emancipation of serfs in Russia Period: 1861 to 1865 United States Civil War 1868 Meiji Restoration Period: 1870 to 1871 Unification of Germany and Italy Period: 1875 to 1900 European "scramble for Africa" Period: 1875 to 1914 European colonial conquest of Africa Period: 1886 to 1888 Cuba and Brazil abolish slavery Period: 1886 to 1888 Cuba and Brazil abolish slavery Period: 1894 to 1895 Japanese War against China 1897 United States acquire Hawaii and the Philippines Period: 1898 to 1901 Boxer Uprising Period: 1898 to 1902 Spanish-American War Period: 1899 to 1902 Boer War in South Africa Period: 1904 to 1905 Maji Maji Rebellion in East Africa Period: 1904 to 1905 Japan defeat Russia 1908 Military coup by Young Turks 1910 Japanese annexation of Korea Period: 1910 to 1920 Mexican Revolution Period: 1910 to 1912 Collapse of Imperial China (Qing Dynasty) Period: 1914 to 1918 World War 1 1917 First Russian Revolution 1920 Women's suffrage in USA Period: 1929 to 1939 Great Depression 1933 Nazis come to power in Germany Period: 1939 to 1945 World War 2 1945 USA drop Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 Founding of World Bank, United Nations, International Monetary Fund Period: 1946 to 1991 Cold War Period: 1947 to 1949 Independence of India, Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1957 to 1975 African Independence achieved Period: 1959 to 1962 Cuban Revolution; Cuban Missile Crisis Period: 1965 to 1973 Vietnam War 1990 Reunification of Germany 1991 Collapse of Soviet Union