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Industrial revolution
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1st successful steam engine is built
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Mexico declares its independence .
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Michael Faraday’s dynamo
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Taiping rebellion
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.Sepoy Mutiny in India
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.Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital
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The Meiji Restoration
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Franco-Prussian War
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Spanish-American War begins
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.Boxer Rebellion
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Russo-Japanese War
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.Franz Ferdinand is killed
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Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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Russia becomes the USSR
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U.S. joins WWI
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Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy
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Treaty of Versailles is signed
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Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins
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.Black Tuesday Stock Market crash
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
the D in D-day stands for Day, since no one really knows when it ended. over 50,000 vehicles , 11,000 planes, and 10,000 ships were deployed .6,603 U.S. soldiers were deployed (1,465 killed) -
Nuremberg trials are held
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Apartheid in South Africa
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.U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
jap. dropped bombs on pearl harbour, cause the U.S. embergoed the japs.. so no more oil from them . we bombed em -
Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China
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Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba
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.Korean War is fought
soldiers were introduced to the flame thrower,U.S. Marines attack Hagaru-ri, North Korea,
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Vietnam War is fought
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USSR collapses & Russia is back
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Mikhail Gorbachev power
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Persian Gulf War begins
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NAFTA is formed
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WTO is formed –