Bailey Bowman

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  • Industrial Revolution

    in the 1700s, conditions in Great Britain led to the rapid growth of the textile industy, which in turn led to huge changes in many other industries.

  • 1st successful steam engine is built

    The steam engine was very slow. It did progress over time, and got faster.

  • Mexico declares its independence

  • Michael Faraday’s dynamo

  • Taiping rebellion

  • Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital

  • The Meiji Restoration

  • Franco-Prussian War

  • Spanish-American War begins

  • Boxer Rebellion

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Franz Ferdinand is killed

  • Russia becomes the USSR

  • U.S. joins WWI

  • Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

  • Treaty of Versailles is signed

  • Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy

  • Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins

  • Black Tuesday Stock Market crash

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Germany attacks Poland

  • WWII begins

  • Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. declares war on Japan

  • D-Day

  • Nuremberg trials are held

  • U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima

  • Apartheid in South Africa

  • Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China

  • Korean War is fought

  • Vietnam War is fought

  • Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba

  • Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR

  • Persian Gulf War begins

  • USSR collapses & Russia is back

  • NAFTA is formed

  • WTO is formed

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