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500 BCE
democracy in athens greece
created a legaslative council of 500 all citizens were eligble for this council -
27 BCE
roman senate gives dictatoral powers to octavian
Roman statesman and military leader who served as the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. -
john locke writes
Locke proceeds through Filmer's arguments, contesting his proofs from Scripture and ridiculing them as senseless, until concluding that no government can be justified by an appeal to the divine right of kings. The Second Treatise outlines a theory of civil society. -
iroquois league
the five groups were recognized as the six nations -
montesquieu writes
the spirit of laws is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law, published in 1748 by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. -
continental congress
begins creating the us republic -
BNA act
he Constitution Act, 1867, is a major part of Canada's Constitution. The Act created a federal dominion and defines much of the operation of the Government of Canada -
canada's first election
canada holds first election via secret ballot -
Lenin dies
lenin dies opening the door for stalin to rise to power -
womans rights
persons case determines women are people and should have rights -
hitler passes enabling act
The Enabling Act was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. -
cold war: world war 2 ends
The soviets and americans created an alliance based on a mutual enemy the nazi's once world war two ended (sept 2, 1945) the two countries ended their alliance based on the differing ideologies -
cold war: marshall plan
a european recover plan, this was an american initiative to aid western europe -
cold war: creation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization CAN USA and several european countries created a treaty that had to do with collective security against the soviet union -
cold war: korean war
north and south korea have a war after russia fails to show up to a UN meeting veto first proxy war begins -
Cold war: khushchev
russian leader pursued peaceful coexistence between the usa and russia -
Cold war: vietnam war
it was the reunification of south and north vietnam united states intervene so they wouldn't become communist -
cold war: hungarian uprising
demonstrates that the warsaw pact is not idealogically unified but the movement was crushed by the warsaw pact forces -
cold war: berlin wall is built
russia builds berlin wall -
cold war: cuban missle crisis
A confrontation between the USA and soviet union concerning america's missiles in turkey and italy and russia's missiles in cuba it was the closest case of the cold war turning into a cold war -
cold war: prague spring
liberalization in czechoslovakia when it was under soviet rule -
nuclear non proliferation treaty
objective was to stop the spread of nuclear arms -
cold war: Helinski accords
final act of conference of security between finland and europe -
soweto uprisings
protest against the major tyranny laws that prevented black students from getting education in their own language -
Cold war: soviet invasion of afganistan
soviets sent in over 30,000 troops and toppled the short lived presidency of a afghan leader -
cold war: democracy movement in poland
solidarity was the only party that wasn't communist and started a democracy movement -
suffrage for FN
Canada’s Indigenous peoples defined in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 as Indians Métis and Inuit can vote in federal, provincial, territorial and local elections. -
reform party
was a right wing party that pushed for triple e senate -
cold war: berlin blockade and airlift
soviet union had put up a blockade in an attempt force the allied powered to abandoned their post WW2 jurisdictions an airlift would bring supplies over to west berlin for 11 month and kept those people with food and water russia lifted the wall in the end of 1989 -
Cold war: berlin wall torn down
spokesman for berlin's east communist party announced new relations with the west and declared that the wall is going to be taken down -
cold war:soviet union ceases
soviet union collapses stopping the cold war -
cold war: warsaw pact dissolved
members of the pact leave and seek to join nato -
referendum on charlottetown accord
Charlottetown Accord. The Charlottetown Accord (French: Accord de Charlottetown) was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendum on October 26 of that year, and was defeated. -
START
bilateral treaty between russia and USA on the reduction and limitation of nukes -
cold war: warsaw pact
A treaty of friendship cooperation and mutual assistance this was a defence treaty signed in warsaw among the soviet union and seven soviet states -
george W bush wins without popular vote
the us electoral system is messed so you can win without getting the majority vote -
cholera outbreak
zimbabwe uses uk as a scapegoat for the cholera outbreak -
Bill C16
This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.
