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Cecil Rhodes Arrives In South Africa
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The Age Of Imperialism
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Great Britain gains control of the Suez Canal
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Berlin Conference
Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa -
The British Foreign Secretary, Lord Granville, recognizes Portugal's claim to both banks at the mouth of the Congo.
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Congo Free state
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254 Europeans reside in the Congo
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French Indochina created
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Queen Liliuokalani Dethroned
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Open door Policy
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Boer War
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Boxer Rebellion
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2943 Europeans in the Congo
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Congo Free State Ceases to Exisit
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The Great War: WWI
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo.
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Germany Declares war on France then Russia
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UK declares war on Germany after invasion of Belgium
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U.S announces Neutrality
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Battle of Marne begins Trench Warfare
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Christmas Truce
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Poison gas first used by Germany at The Second Battle of Ypres
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Russian Revolution
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Zimmerman Telegram sent to Mexico from Germany
British intercept -
February Revolution begins at Petrograd
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Mikhail announces refusal to throne
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Lenin returns from exile
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U.S declares war on Germany
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Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government
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October Revolution- the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
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Winter Palace taken by Bolsheviks
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The Bolsheviks successfully overthrow the Russian government during the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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Fourteen Points- Wilson
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk- takes Russia out of WWI
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Treaty of Versailles ends The Great War
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Russian Civil War
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Czar Nicholas executed
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German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany.
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Germany Signs Armistice
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Russian Civil War ends
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USSR Established
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Southern Africa becomes the largest diamond supplier in the World
