World History 1750-present

By lunacastromojica
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    Mexican revolution

  • Collapse of Qing dynasty in china

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

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    World War 1

  • US joins World War 1

  • Russian Revolution of 1917

    turns Russia into a fully communist nation

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • League of Nations established

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    Kemal Ataturk, secular modernization of Turkey

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    Great Depression

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    Stalin Power in Soviet Union

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    New Deal in US

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    Italy, German, Japan form axis alliance

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    World War II

  • Hitler invades Poland (start of WW2)

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    The Holocaust

  • Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor

  • Germany invaded Russia

    Broke non-aggression pact

  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Official German surrender (end of ww2)

  • Bretton Woods System established

    World Bank, IMF

  • Winston "iron curtain" speech

  • Marshall Plan Announced

  • India independence from Britain is gained

    led by ghandi
    split into Pakistan and India
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    Cold War

  • Mao Zedong takes control of China

    Communist control established

  • Nato established

  • CCP comes to power

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    Korean War

  • Vietnam/Indochina independence from France

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    Algerian independence from French

  • Warsaw Pact

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    Vietnam War

    proxy war

  • Ghana gains independence from Britain

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Aswam Dam was built in Egypt

    Nassar used help from soviets because US could not help
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    Afghanistan War

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    Deng Xiaoping Reforms in China

  • Iranian Revolution

  • Gorbachev's Reforms in Russia

  • Collapse of Eastern European Communism

  • USSR official Dismantled

  • End of Apartheid in South Africa

  • WTO established