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4300 BCE
Urbanization
Urbanization happened in 4300 BCE and was a population shift from rural to urban areas. Urbanization brought noise, traffic jams, pollution, and health problems to the world. -
1399
Imperialism
Imperialism began in the 1400s and is the practice of maintaining power over other nations. It affected the world because culture and industry was destroyed. -
1401
The Older Order
The Older Order happened from the 15th-18th century and was the social/political order that happened in France. It consisted of the first estate, second estate, and third estate which were the different social standings. People of the third estate began to call for change when they realized how unfair the system was. -
1492
Colonial Violence
Colonial violence began in 1492 and started with Columbus's expedition. The 3 main issues was the controlling, money, and the cultural system. It effected the world because it changed the Native American communities forever. -
English Civil War
The English Civil War was fought between 1642 and 1651 consisted of 3 wars which were caused by disagrements over religion/how the king was using his power. The War's effects were that King Charles | got executed, and Britain had its first army. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution happened between 1775 and 1783 where the 13 Colonies gained independence. Its biggest effect was that people began to gain indepence through voting. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a time of significant societal unrest that happened between 1787 and 1799. It ended the feudal system, abolished a kingdom and its ruler, established civil laws, and ensured that everybody was fairly represented in government. -
Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution happened between 1791 and 1804 and was the Africans and their descendants who had been enslaved by the French that overthrew the French government in Haiti. -
Nationalism
Nationalism is the "identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations." -
Enviormentalism
Enviormentalism is a broad worldview, social movement, and philosophy centered on preserving environments, ecosystems, and life. -
Struggles and transformations in China
Struggles in China began in 1839-1860 due to the Opium Wars. The Qing dynasty reigned over about 410 million people by the 1800's but China still remained a divided nation. They ended up suffering from land shortages, mismanagement, and money loss. -
March Rev
This was the first stage in the German Rev. It upended the semi-feudal bureaucratic order. -
Indian Uprising
In 1857, a rebellion against British rule in India began. It was very widespread but also very unsuccessful. This ended up changing the way Britain ruled. -
Czar
He was a Russian mystic and holy man. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II. -
Peasants lives
Peasants had really hard lives and their work days lasted 16 or more hours. The working conditions were very bad, they were overworked and under fed. -
Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration happened in 1868 in Tokugawa Shogun, Japan. It was was a political development that brought back effective imperial control. -
Lost Generation
A group of American writers who lived and worked abroad in Europe between World War I and the Great Depression is known as the "Lost Generation." -
Mao Zedong
He was a revolutionary, poet, military planner, and politician from China who founded the People's Republic of China. -
Latin America Revolutions
The Latin America Revolutions were revolutions that liberated the area from colonial rule and ushered in Latin American freedom. There were multiple that happened in Mexico (1910), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959), and Nicaragua 1979. -
Balkan Wars
The two battles that occurred in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913 are collectively referred to as the Balkan Wars. Greece obtained both the island of Crete and southern Macedonia as a result of the Balkan Wars. -
First World War
The First World War was a conflict that was fought for more than 4 years and killed between 15-19 million people. It impacted the world because it devestated the global economy and it contributed to outbreaks of disease that killed millions of people. -
Oil Revolution
The British started switching their ships from coal to oil power as they battled to construct the greatest navy in the world. Oil made it possible for ships to go farther and quicker at sea. -
Total War
The Total War was a series of "games" developed by British. It described the size and devestation of the war. It included soldiers and civilians. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution started in 1917 and lasted until 1923. It was a period of political and social change within Russia. It paved the way for the rise of communism and political belief around the world. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty. It was the most important treaty of WW1. It put an end to Germany's and most of the Allied Powers' state of war. -
Fascism
Fascism started in the 1920's. It is far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement. Fascist regimes have been inspired by these ideologies to carry out genocides, forced sterilizations, deportations, and massacres. -
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was a "transcontinental" country that took over much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The communist governments were made then still exist now in China, Cuba and North Korea, among other countries -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Russian and Soviet politician. He led the Soviet Union as its final leader from 1985 until its breakup in 1991. -
Good neighbor policy
The good neighbor policy was when President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's foreign policy toward Latin America. -
Sino-Japanese War
The Sino-Japanese war began in 1937 and ended in 1945. It was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. It ended with China recognizing the independence of Korea. -
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons were created when nuclear fission was discovered accidentally in 1938 from a radio active atom split. The world became much more dangerous once nuclear weapons were created. -
The Second World War
The Second World War took place from 1939 until 1945. The great powers and the vast majority of other nations participated in opposed military coalitions. -
Colonial Forces of WW2
Although colonial forces were essential to the Allied countries' victory over the Axis, their services are frequently overlooked. -
Nazi Soviet Pact
It was a 10-year non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union was part of the agreement. The German-Soviet Pact prepared the way for World War II. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide of European Jews during the Second World War. It was run by Hitler and about 6 million people were killed. -
Communist bloc
The communist bloc was the alliance of communist nations supporting the Soviet Union that included members from Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. -
Apartheid
Apartheid was a racial segregation system that was institutionalized and took place in South Africa and South West Africa. Every limitation made it more difficult for Black people to completely integrate into the capitalist system. -
De-Stalinization
De-Stalinization meant to an end to the role of forced labour in the economy. They needed to take away power. -
Battle of Algeirs
It chronicles the armed uprising against the French colonial forces in Algeria and the 1954–1962 Algerian insurrection against them. -
Chinese Revolution
The victory had a major impact on the global balance of power from the Chinese Communist Revolution. China became the largest socialist state by population. -
Aral Sea
Located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the north and south, the Aral Sea was a lake that started to dry up in the 1960s. Fertilizer and pesticides contaminated the already salty water. -
Lei Feng
People's Liberation Army fighter Lei Feng was the focus of multiple significant propaganda operations in China. A part of the ongoing public relations campaign to showcase soldiers as role models -
Indigenous Resistance in Africa
Indigenous people in Africa faced changes in the economic freedoms and social liberties. They tried to change this by slowing down at work, giving people fake directions, and sabotage. -
Indigenous Resistance in India
Indigenous people in India suffered from poverty, malnurition, diseases, upheaval, and economic explotion. They tried to fight back by using non violent movements but quickly started to revolt and use armed uprisings. -
Indigenous Resistance in China
Indigenous people in China suffered from the loss of land, recources, and traditions. They attempted to resist by reforming to modernization, and wanted to develop stregnth to resists intrusions from foreigners. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody sunday was a massacre when British soldiers shot about 30 unarmed civilians. This caused the Federal Government to take action. -
Iranian Revolution
A series of events that led to the Pahlavi dynasty's fall in 1979. Posts at the local, provincial, and national levels became more accessible to Iranians -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Berlin Wall was a barrier that surrounded West Berlin. On November 9, 1989, during a hurriedly scheduled international press conference in East Berlin, the Berlin Wall fell in the evening. -
Varanasi
Varanasi is a city in India and it gained independence from Asia/Africa by 2008. The things that happened there were motivated by promis of plundering the enviornment, subjugating populations, and persistant institutions of colonialism.