-
Industrial Revolution and three inventors
The Industrial Revolution was the time period when more efficient machinery was being created and there was a lot higher production in the brand new factories they created. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. James Watt invented the steamboat. Samuel Morris invented the wired telegraph. -
French Revolution
1789-1799Where the people overtook the French government. The First Estate(1 percent) consisted of the Roman Catholic clergy. They were very privileged. The Second Estate (2 percent)consisted of the nobility in France. They were very privileged as well and held high positions in the government. The Third Estate (97 percent) consisted of the artisans, peasants, and merchants. They worked for low wages and in poor conditions, giving up almost all of their money because of taxes from other estates. -
Socialism
Socialism is a governmental system where society controls the means of production (capital, land, raw materials, and factories), whether that's through the government or directly. -
Napoleon and Nationalism
Napoleon was a French dictator who had many ideas, such as public school, religious freedom, and equality under the law. Nationalism was when the people wanted to go back to self-rule and break away from the monarchy. Napoleon took away the rights of self-rule and made it a dictatorship and he took over many European areas. -
William Wilberforce and Lord Shaftebury
William opposed slavery and he passed a law that ended the British slave trade. Shaftebury made laws that limited work hours for women and children and that they couldn't work in underground mines or for longer than 10 hours. He investigated the working conditions of the factories, which made him pass these laws. -
Two Artists 19th Century or Romance Movement
Romanticism was a movement in the 18th century where artists emphasized human emotions and imagination over reason. Sir Walter Scott was a novelist and he wrote the famous Ivanhoe, Quentin Durward, and the Talisman. Victory Hugo another romantic novelist wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. -
Science
Edward Jenner was an English doctor who created the first medicine. He injected a boy with cowpox to prevent him from getting smallpox and it worked. John Dalton figured out that elements are made up of atoms. -
Three ways countries implemented Imperialism.
Imperialism was when a bigger country controlled smaller countries politics economy and social life. They set up colonies, which were territories that an imperial power ruled directly through colonial officials. They had a protectorate, which had its own government, but its policies were guided by a foreign power. They also had a sphere of influence which was a region in which the imperial power had exclusive investment or trading rights. -
World War I
World War I began in 1914. It started when Serbia assassinating Francis Ferdinand who was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire. Another cause was when Germany invaded Belgium despite the treaty causing England to declare war on them. Each country was trying to expand its area and they began to grow so large that they were conflicting. -
End of World War I
It ended in 1918. One important event was the sinking of the Lusitania. Another important event was the interception of the German telegram to Mexico. Lastly, the sinking of the four merchant ships was important in 1915. -
Arrivals of Hitler Mussolini and Franco
Mussolini was the dictator of Italy and he created fascism. Hitler was an oppressive dictator who manipulated people and tried to take over the world by telling his German people that he would get rid of everybody else. Franco was the ruler of Spain he fought during the Spanish Revolution his people were the nationalists who didn't want reform. Japan wanted to expand because of a lack of natural resources and they joined the axis powers with Germany and Italy. -
World War II
It began in 1939 and ended in 1945. Pearl Harbor, the invasion of Poland from the Germans, Stalin protecting Stalingrad from Hitler and killing 100,000 of the best German soldiers, D-Day, the turning point of World War II, and the sinking of the biggest German ship, the Bismarck. -
United Nations
The United Nations was a League of Nations created to hold peace to guarantee security. In 1945 San Francisco. -
Communist China
After World War II China was split up into two parts the Nationalists and Communists. The Communists won and named Beijing the capital of China and the Nationalists who lost named Taiwan or Taipei the capital of China. It was an ongoing battle for who rules China. Richard Nixon the American president went to China in 1972 and made diplomatic ties with them. -
American occupation of Japan ended
After World War II the Americans occupied Japan and they helped Japan get back on their feet and made sure Japan wouldn't come back at America. Once they were all good they signed a treaty making Japan a sovereign state. -
Truce Between North and South Korea.
There was constant conflict between North Korea and Soviet Union and America and South Korea. Neither side had the land, but after 5 million casualties in a war, they settled the land in a peace treaty in 1953. South Korea got the south and North Korea got north. -
European Union
The European Union was set up to establish closer ties between all of the countries in Europe.
