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Industrial Revolution
During the 1700s and 1800s, the industrial revolution changed practically everything about the world of work. Many of the changes where were technolocal advances. As the rate of advance increased, many other aspects of daily life besides work were also transformed. -
1st successful steam engine is built
The first commercially successful steam engine was built in England in 1712, but it was very slow. Then an inventor named James Watt came up wiht crucial innovations. His engine was faster and more efficient at driving machinery. By 1800 about 500 of Watt's steam engines were chugging and hissing in mines and factories throughout Britain. -
Mexico declares its independence
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Michael Farado's dynamo
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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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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U.S. Joins WWI
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Treaty of Versailles is signed
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Russia becomes the USSR
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Mussolini's Fascist party in Italy
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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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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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U.S. drops Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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D-day
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Nuremberg trials are held
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Mao Zedongn's people's republic of china
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Korean war is fought
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Vietnam war is fought
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Fidel Castro's communism in Cuba
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Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
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USSR collapses and Russia is back
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Persian gulf war begins
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NAFTA is formed
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Apartheid in South Africa
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WTO is formed