Courtney Standrich

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  • Industrial Rev. begins

  • 1st successful steam engine built

    The steam engine was really slow at first but they got better as time went on. The widespread use of the steam engines began when inventertors put them to use in the textile mills. Using steam power instead of water power meant that factories no longer had to be built near ready supplies of water.

  • Mexico Declares it's Independence

  • Michael Faraday's Dynamo

  • Taping Rebellion

  • Seopy Munity in India

  • Karl Marx's Das Captial

  • The Meij Restoration

    Meij Restoration is the emperor's return to the power. The emperor learned about the risk of resisting Western demands. China had clung to it's traditional ways and had been unsuccessful in keeping its sovreignity, or independent control of its goverment.

  • Franco Prussian War

    Prussia won the war, and the peace treaty declared the unification of Germany. Bismark secured a Prussian victory in the war. The states sopported Prussia and the north German states in the war against France.

  • Spanish-American War

    U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana's harbor, and many American's immediately assumed that Spain was resopnsible. The Congress decided to declare war. The war was a disaster for Spain.

  • Boxer Rebillion

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Franz Ferdinard is killed

    He decided to visit the bosnian city of Sarajevo. On June 28, 1914 as Franz's car drove through the Sarajevo streets, a young Serbian man opened fire with his pistol. Killing the archduke and his wife.

  • Lenin's Bolshevik Revolut in Russia

  • U.S. joins WWI

  • Treaty of Versailles is signed

  • Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy

  • Russia becomes the USSR

  • Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins

  • Black Tuesday Stock Market crash

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins

  • Japans attack on Pearl Harbor

  • .U.S. declares war on Japan

    For nearly 2 weeks Japanese aircraft carriers had been approaching Pearl Harbor from the north. The American military could'nt find eho it was. Then America decided to take attack on Japan.

  • D-Day

  • U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima

    The president could'nt decide to drop the bomb or not. That was a very difficult decision for the U.S. They finally decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.

  • Nuremberg trials are held

    The trials were held in Germany. Allied military courts tried more than 2 hundered Nazi and Military courts tried more than two hundred Nazi and military officals. Several dozen were sentenced to death for their rols in the Holocaust.

  • Apartheid in South Africa

    The National Party instituted a policy of aparthed. This policy divided people into four racial groups. White, Black, Colored and Asian.

  • Korean War is fought

    North Korea attacked South Korea. Their goal was to unite the country under a communist goverment. Believing that a failiure to defend South Korea might lead to other attemps at Communist expansion.

  • Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba

    Castro overthrew Cuba's dictator and installed a Communist goverment. Once in power, Castro established a certinally planned economy and forged close ties with the soviet union. Cuba is on;y located 90 miles south of Florida which is clos the the U.S.

  • Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China

    Mao shut down China's schools and encouraged militant high school and college students known as the Red Guards. He wanted them to carry out the work of Cultural Revoulution by critizing intellecuals and traditional values. But Mao soon lost control of the goverment.

  • Vietnam War is fought

    The U.S. supported the Soth Vietnam to kkep it from being taken over by the North. The south leader prevented the election and made enemies. The Enemies formed a group called the Vietcong.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR

    When he came to power in the Sovient Union he saw the need for change. He proposed two radical concepts, glasnost and prestroika. The reform of the Sovient economic and plotivcal system was fixed.

  • Persian Gulf War begins

    After the cease fire Saddam continued to build up Iraq's military. Even though Iraq had the largest army in the arab world. Iraq accused neighboring of Kuwait of drilling into a field of oil.

  • USSR collapses & Russia is back

    Russia had rebounded somewhat from the economic crises that came with market reform. The path still from communism to capitalism was not a easy task. One issue was the need for a new goverment.

  • NAFTA is formed

    NAFTA stands for National American Free Trade Agreement. It traffis on trade between the three countries. It was designed to improve the countries.

  • WTO is formed

    WTO stands for World Trade Organization. Some 150 countries are appart of WTO. Which monitors national trade polices and helps resolve trade disputes.