Western Europe History

By ZoeKrum
  • 476

    Fall of the Roman Empire

    Fall of the Roman Empire
    The Roman Empire been invaded by Visigoths and destroyed them. It's also when Christianity started. http://www.ushistory.org/civ/6f.asp
  • Period: 476 to 800

    Middle Ages

    The Middle Ages or known as the Dark Ages is the period after the Fall of the Roman Empire.
  • Period: 1096 to 1291

    Crusades

    Religious wars with Christians and Muslims
    HISTORY.com
  • Protestant Reformation

    According to HISTORY.com splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
    https://www.history.com/topics/reformation/reformation
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    The Age of Enlightenment

    The Age of Enlightenment is also called the "Age Of Reasons".
    According to http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Age_of_Enlightenment "The Enlightenment advocated reason as a means to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government, and even religion, which would allow human beings to obtain objective truth about the whole of reality."
  • The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    The Renaissance is the rediscovery of literate art, philosophy and art.
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    Started on Britain and they started to use machines and not human labor.
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    French Revolution

    France try to get rid of the king since they were broke and starving.
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    War World 2

    The war started after Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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    World War 2

    The war started after Germany invaded Poland. Great Britan and France declared war on Germany. https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II
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    Cold War

    The Cold War begin after World War 2 with the United States and Soviet Union along with their allies. https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War
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    NATO

    After World War Two the United States and other countries created NATO to defend each other from the Soviet Union
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    Creation of the European Union

    After the World War Two, there was a movement to have unity between Germany and France. 'The EU can trace its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC), formed in 1951 and 1958 respectively by the Inner Six countries of Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.' According to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/what-is-the-eu-why-was-it-formed-and-when-was-it-created/
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    The wall was destroy by citizens using their hands to go to to other side. No one stop them from destroying it.
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union happened because of the leader decided to https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/collapse-soviet-union