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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transformation from an agricultural to an Industrial nation. It was the introduction of power driven machinery and factories. Working the farmland was no longer what people did, instead they moveed to the city and worked there. -
1st successful Steam Engine is built
The first commercially successful steam engine was built in England in 1712, but it was very slow. Inventor named James Watt came up with a new engine. It was faster and more efficient to running the machinery. -
Mexico Declares it's Indepence
By 1821, Mexico had gained its freedom and inherited the vast territories of Spain stretching from Texas to the Pacific. They also inherited an intense disapproval of the northern whose language, culture, and religion were insults to their hosts. Because of these emptions it soon lead to a dispute with Texas, that caused another war later on. -
Michael Faraday's Dynamo
The first electric generator was invented by Michael Faraday in 1831. It was a copper disk that rotated between the poles of a magnet. This was not a dynamo because it did not use a commutator. -
Taiping Rebellion
Radical political and religious upheaval that was probably the most important event in China in the 19th century. Took an estimated 20,000,000 lives, and irrevocably altered the Qing dynasty.The rebellion began under the leadership of Hong Xiuquan. -
Sepoy mustiny in India
Most well-known uprisings during the British colonization of India was a mutiny of the native troops known as "sepoys".When it began on Sunday, May 10, 1857 the Sepoy rebellion was a complete surprise to the British. Many of whom were "blind to the unrest that had been created, in part, by the rapid imposition of direct British control over two-thirds of India. -
Karl Marx's "Das Kepital"
A book written by Karl Marx describing his economic theories. The title is German for “capital.” It describes the capitalist system in highly critical terms and predicts its defeat by socialism. -
The Meiji Restoration
When the Meiji emperor was restored as head of Japan in 1869, the nation was a militarily weak country. It was primarily agricultural, and had little technological development. It also was controlled by hundreds of semi-independent feudal lords. -
Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member. And the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria. -
Spanish-American War
On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire -
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society. The group practiced certain boxing and calisthenic rituals in the belief that this made them invulnerable. -
Russo-Japanese War
Military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East. This than became the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power. The Russo-Japanese War developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea. -
Franz Ferdinand is Killed
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death.The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Five years to the day after Franz Ferdinand's death, Germany and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially marking the end of World War I. -
Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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U.S. joins WWI
U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. Many Americans were not in favor of the U.S. entering the war and wanted to remain neutral. -
Treaty of Versailles is signed
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 was initiated by millions of people who would change the history of the world as we know it. When Czar Nicholas II dragged 11 million peasants into World War I, the Russian people became discouraged with their injuries and the loss of life they sustained. The country of Russia was in ruins, ripe for revolution. -
Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy
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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 – WWII begins
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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D-Day
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U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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Nuremberg trials are held
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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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Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba
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Vietnam War is Fought
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Persian Gulf War Begins
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Mikhail Gorbachev Power in USSR
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USSR Collapses & Russia is Back
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NAFTA is Formed
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WTO is Formed
