Imelda Salinas By salinime Feb 20, 1700 Industrial Revolution Feb 20, 1712 1st Successful Steam Engine is built Feb 20, 1810 Mexico declares it's independance Feb 20, 1831 Michael Faraday's dynamo Feb 20, 1850 Taiping Rebellion Feb 20, 1857 Sepoy Munity in India Feb 20, 1867 Karl Marx "Das Kapital" Feb 20, 1868 The Meiji Restoration Feb 20, 1870 Franco-Prussian War Feb 20, 1898 Spanish-American War begins Feb 20, 1899 Boxer Rebellion Feb 20, 1900 Russo-Japansese War Jun 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand is killed Feb 20, 1917 U,S. Joins WWI May 17, 1917 Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Jun 28, 1919 Tready of Versailles is signed Feb 20, 1922 Russia becomes the USSR Feb 20, 1922 Mussolini's Facist Party in Italy Feb 20, 1924 Stalin's rule in the USSR begins Oct 29, 1929 Black Tuesday stock maket crash Feb 20, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Feb 20, 1937 Germany attacks poland-WWII Begins Dec 7, 1941 Japan attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 U.S. declares war on Japan Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Period: Feb 20, 1945 to Feb 20, 1949 Nutemberg Trials are held Aug 6, 1945 U.S. Drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima Feb 20, 1948 Apartheid in South Africa Jun 20, 1950 Korean fight is fought Feb 20, 1954 Vietnam War is fought Feb 20, 1959 Fidel Castro's communism in Cuba Feb 20, 1960 Mao Zedong's people's Republic of China Feb 20, 1985 Mikhall Gotbachev power in USSR Feb 20, 1990 Persian Gulf War Feb 20, 1991 USSR Collapses & Russia is Back Feb 20, 1992 NAFTA is Formed Feb 20, 1995 WTO is Formed