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Industrial Revolution
Era that began in the early 1700's in Great Britain. People began to develop water and steam power to drive new machines and perform countless tasks. These inventions made life much easier for people. -
1st Succesful Steam Engine is Built
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Mexico Declares its Independence
On this day Mexico became its own country. They set up there own government while the Spanish king was imprisoned.They celebrate this day every year with fiestas and parades. -
Michael Faraday's dynamo
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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 WW1
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Mussolini's Fascist Party in Italy
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Treaty of Versailles is signed
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Russia becomes the USSR
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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-WW1 begins
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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D-Day
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Nruemberg trials are held
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U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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Apartheid in South Africa
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Mao Zedong'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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Persain Gulf War begins
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USSR collapses and Russia is back
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NAFTA is formed
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WTO is formed