APWH Final Timeline By otan Period: 1707 to 1750 Fragmentation of Mughal Empire Period: 1740 to 1818 Wahabi Movement of Islamic Renewal in Arabia Period: 1750 to 1900 (Units 5-6) 1750-1900 Period: 1750 to 1800 Hight Point of the Atlantic Slave Trade Period: 1775 to 1787 Revolution in North America Period: 1789 to 1799 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution Period: 1799 to 1814 Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte Period: 1808 to 1825 Latin American Wars of Independence Period: 1839 to 1876 Tanzimat Reforms in Ottoman Empire Period: 1840 to 1842 First Opium War in China 1847 Liberia Established by American Freed Slaves 1848 Publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 1848 Women’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York Period: 1850 to 1864 Taiping Uprising in China Period: 1856 to 1858 Second Opium War in China Period: 1861 to 1865 United States Civil War; Abolition of Slavery 1868 Meiji Restoration in Japan 1869 Opening of Suez Canal Period: 1870 to 1914 Second Industrial Revolution Period: 1875 to 1900 European “Scramble for Africa” Period: 1875 to 1914 European Colonial Conquest of Africa Period: 1898 to 1902 Spanish-American War Period: 1900 to 2000 (Units 7-9) 1900-2000 Period: 1910 to 1920 Mexican Revolution 1911 Collapse of Qing Dynasty China Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I Period: 1918 to 1920 Collapse of Ottoman Empire Period: 1928 to 1932 Joseph Stalin’s first Five Year Plans are Implemented Period: 1929 to 1939 Great Depression Period: 1929 to 1953 Stalin in Power in the Soviet Union Period: 1933 to 1943 New Deal in the United States Period: 1937 to 1945 World War II Period: 1939 to 1945 The Holocaust Period: 1945 to 1950 Beginnings of Cold War Period: 1945 to 1950 Imposition of Communism in Eastern Europe Period: 1945 to 1950 Israel, Indonesia, and India Establish Independence Period: 1948 to 1952 Marshall Plan for European Recovery 1949 Chinese Communist Party Comes to Power Period: 1949 to 1955 Formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and Warsaw Pact as rival military alliances Period: 1949 to 1976 Mao Zedong Rules China Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam War Period: 1959 to 1990 Military Governments in Africa and Latin America 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Period: 1978 to 1989 Deng Xiaoping Reforms in China 1987 Gorbachev Reforms begin in Soviet Union 1989 Collapse of Eastern European Communism 1991 End of Cold War 1991 Collapse of Soviet Union 1994 End of Apartheid in South Africa 1994 EU (European Union) Established Sep 11, 2001 9/11: Terrorist Attacks on World Trade Center 2011 Beginning of Syrian Civil War