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May 10, 1215
Magna Carta
English Charter -
May 10, 1453
Mehmed II takes Constantinople
After takikng over Constantinople he took on its administrative apparatus into the Ottoman state -
May 10, 1492
Columbus sailing across the Atlantic
He sailed in search of a shorter route to Asia -
Landing of the Mayflower
The landing was in Plymouth -
English Bill of Rights
It was a restatement of the Declaration of Right -
Declaration of Independence for the United States
Stated that the 13 states declared themselfs independent -
Ratification of the US Constitution
A debate over the constitution proposed -
Start of French Revoution
a time of racial, social, and political debate in France -
Napoleon Declared Emperor
French Military leader
Influence on Civil law -
Period: to
US Civil War
One of the most violent times in history
faught because of civil rights -
First car invented
invented by Karl Benz -
Man's first powered flight (airplane)
By the Wright Brothers -
Mexican Revolution
A very big armed sruggle. A dissagreement over the dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz -
China: Republican Revolution (end of Emperor)
he was forced to abdicate following Sun Yatsen's republican revolution -
World War I, Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
killed by two bullets
his killing set in motion a series of events -
World War I, US enters war
Alliance, Nationalism, Militerism, Imperialism, Anarchy and Leadership are some of the reasons US was apart of the war -
Bolshevik Revolution
Czar Nicholas II forced 11 million peopl into WW1, the Russian people became discouraged with their loss & injury so they revolted -
World War I Armistice
It was with the allies and Germany &
ended the war -
World War II, Germany invades Poland
Known as the September Campaign
marked the begining of WW2 -
World War II, Pearl Harbor
a surprise attack at pearl harbor against the US by Japan -
•Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, MO at Westminster College
during one of the most famous orations of the Cold War time, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe -
World War II, Germany surrenders
Allied armies had closed in on Germany in all directions to help end the war -
World War II Atomic bombs dropped
bomb dropped on Japan and ended the ww2 -
World War II Atomic bombs dropped
The second bomb dropped at Nagasaki -
World War II Japan surrenders
their surrender brought the hostilities of the war to an end -
•Berlin Airlift
the airlift carried supplies to west berlin -
Communist's takeover China
Mao declared speech that the communists would take over china -
Period: to
Korean War
the war was between republics of korea and democratic people of korea -
Vietnam War, war begins
ended april of 1965
was in the cold war era -
Berlin Wall constructed
the wall cut out west berlin from eatst berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
it was the thirteenth confrontation between cuba and the soviet union -
Kennedy assassinated
He was shot while he was traveling with his wife on a friday -
Vietnam War Tet Offense
military campaign launched in january -
Woodstock
called woodstock naiton, they travelled to Yasgur’s Farm alone, in pairs, indozens, hundreds, or thousands -
Man walks on the moon
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon -
Watergate scandal
political scandal
occured in the united states -
vietnam war, Last American's leave Vietnam
called the fall of saigon, marked the end onf the war -
tiananmen square protests
a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing -
End of Apartheid and Nelson Mandela's Release
Mandela led his party in the negotiations that led to the establishment of democracy and his release -
German Reunification
the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany and when Berlin reunited into a single city -
USSR ends
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR, his led to was the breakup of the USSR and the end of the one-party Communist rule