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Perry "opens" Japan for trade
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Reign of Ismail in Egypt
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Period: to
Reign of Leopold II in Belgium
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Meiji Restoration in Japan
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Completion of Suez Canal
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United States takes over Philippines
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"Hundred days of reforms" in China
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Kipling publishes "The White Man's Burden"
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Conard publishes "Heart of Darkness"
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First Balkan War
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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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World War I
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Italy and Bulgaria enter World War I
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Ministry of Munitions established in Britain
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Rasputin murdered
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German males between seventeen and sixty required to work only for war effort
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Russain Revolution
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Treaty of Versailles
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Mussolini seizes power in Italy
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French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr
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Dawes Plan
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Buildup of Nazi party in Germany
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Germany joins League of Nations
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Stalin comes to power in U.S.S.R.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Stalin's first five-year plan
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Period: to
Great Depression
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van der Rohe becomes director of Bauhuas
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Franklin Roosevelt elected U.S. president
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Hitler appointed chancellor in Germany
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Sergei Kirov,Stalin's number-two man,is murdered
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Creation of WPA as paryt of New Deal
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Mussolini invades Ethiopia
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.Formation of Popular Front in France
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Start of great purges under Stalin
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Germany occupies Czech lands
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Period: to
Decolonization of Asia and Africa
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Trruman Doctrine
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Formation of NATO
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Period: to
Korean War
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Period: to
De-Stalinization of Soviet Union
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Building of Berlin Wall
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Cuban missile crisis
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Period: to
U.S. involvement in Vietnam War
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Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
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Solidarity gains power in Poland
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Collapse of the Berlin Wall
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Velvet Revolution ends
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Reunification of Germany
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Paris Accord
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Period: to
Gulf War
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Period: to
Civil war in Yugoslavia
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Creation of the European Union