Continuity and Changes By maddies719 Period: 1756 to 1763 7 Years' War Period: 1760 to 1789 First Industrial Revolution Period: 1765 to 1783 American Revolution Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of independence signed Period: 1789 to 1795 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women was published Period: 1799 to 1815 Napoleon Reign in France Period: 1806 to 1826 Latin American Revolutions 1815 Congress of Vienna Period: 1839 to 1860 Opium Wars 1848 Communist Manifesto published 1854 Commordre Perry opens Japan 1859 Suez Canal built in Egypt by Britain 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1868 Meji Restoration in Japan Period: 1870 to 1914 Second Industrial Revolution 1885 Berlin Conference 1898 Spanish-American War 1899 Boer War Period: 1904 to 1905 Russo-Japanese War Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I Period: 1915 to 1917 Armenian Genocide 1917 Russian Revolution Period: 1927 to 1936 Chinese Civil War Period: 1929 to 1933 Great Depression Period: 1936 to 1938 Great purge in the USSR Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack Period: 1941 to 1945 The Holocaust Period: 1941 to 1953 Stalin Rule 1945 Hiroshima bombing 1945 United Nations created Period: 1945 to 1950 Chinese Communist Revolution Period: 1947 to 1991 Cold War 1949 NATO established Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1953 to 1959 Cuban Revolution 1955 Warsaw Pact Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam War Period: 1958 to 1962 Great Leap Forward Period: 1966 to 1976 Cultural Revolution in China 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Fall of USSR Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Terrorist Attack