Imperialism and World War I By YerayElportero Period: 1870 to 1914 IMPERIALISM 1871 Meeting between Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone 1876 Coronation of Queen Victoria I as Empressof India 1882 British occupation of Egypt, which becomes protectorate 1885 Berlin conference. Distribution of Africa amon the colonial powers. The Congo becomes the personal possession of King Leopoldo II of Belgium. 1888 Isaac Peral tested his submarine 1895 Sino Japanese War 1899 Second Anglo-Boer War 1900 Boxer Rebelion and assult on foreign delegation in Beijing 1905 Ruso-Japanese War 1905 Russian Revolution 1907 Treaty of Saint Petersburg between British and Russians for the division of Central Asia. 1914 Sarajevo attack Beginning of the World War I Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1916 Battles of Verdun and the Somme 1917 United States' entry inte the World War I. Russian withdrawal 1917 February Revolution 1917 Octuber Revolution 1918 Brest Litovsk peace 1918 The armistice is firmed. End of the World War I. 1918 Russian Civil War Period: 1918 to 1922 Russian Revolution 1919 the start of the Paris Conference. The peac treaty were signed by: Versailles, Sant Germain-en-laye, Trianon, Neuilly and Sèvres 1922 Ceation of the union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
