Historical developments from periods 1750-2000 By josefina:) 1756 Steam engine is perfected Period: 1756 to 1763 7 Years War Period: 1760 to 1789 1st Industrial Revolution Period: 1765 to 1783 American Revolution Period: 1789 to 1795 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' by Mary Wollstonecraft published Period: 1806 to 1826 Latin American Revolution 1815 Congress of Vienna Period: 1839 to 1860 Opium Wars 1848 Seneca Falls convention 1848 Communist Manifesto published 1853 Commodore Perry opens Japan 1861 End of Russian Serfdom 1863 Emancipation proclamation in the US 1868 Meji Restoration in Japan Period: 1870 to 1914 2nd Industrial Revolution 1885 Berlin Confrence 1890 European Spheres of influence in China 1898 Spanish-American War Period: 1904 to 1905 Russo-Japanese War Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1917 Russian Revolution 1917 Zimmerman telegram 1920 League of Nations founded Period: 1929 to 1939 Great depression Period: 1936 to 1938 Great purge in USSR Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II Period: 1939 to 1945 The Holocaust Period: 1941 to 1953 Stalin has power in USSR 1945 United Nations founded Period: 1945 to 1950 Chinese Communist Revolution 1947 Partition of India Period: 1947 to 1991 Cold war 1949 NATO established 1955 Warsaw Pact Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam war Period: 1958 to 1962 Great leap forward 1960 'Year of Africa' Period: 1960 to 1976 Chinese Cultural Revolution 1994 NAFTA created