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Industrial Revolution pg 235
The industrial revolution started in Great Brittain, because it was the perfect location. It was the perfect location, sence it had flowing water, coal, and iron ore. This made it so that machines could be made, mills could turn, and later coal could burn to steam the water. -
1st successful steam engine is built pg239
The first steam ingine was invented in England. The steam ingine made it so that prduction could go faster. With the steam ingine the factories could be more centraly located with cities, coal mines, and water. -
Mexico declares its independence
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Michael Faraday’s dynamo pg 262
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Taiping rebellion pg 349
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Sepoy Mutiny in India pg 344
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Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” pg 251
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The Meiji Restoration pg 352
Persian Gulf Wart US led a multinational force into war. The US did this in the 1990's. The coalition troop freed kuwait and Suddam agreed to obey limits on military forces and weapons. -
Franco-Prussian War pg 322
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Spanish-American War begins pg 366
This war began because a Battle ship blew up and America jumped to conclussions that the spanish did it. America instantly went to war with the spanish. We won the war in the end. -
Boxer Rebellion pg 351
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Russo-Japanese War pg 332
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Franz Ferdinand is killed – 1914 pg 382
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Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia – 1917 pg
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Russia becomes the USSR pg 395
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U.S. joins WWI pg 397
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Treaty of Versailles is signed pg 399
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Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy – 1919 pg 425
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Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins pg 426
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Black Tuesday Stock Market crash pg 415
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany pg 428
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Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins pg 440
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor pg 443
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U.S. declares war on Japan pg 444
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D-Day pg 461
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U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima pg 463
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Nuremberg trials are held pg 480
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Apartheid in South Africa pg 543
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Korean War is fought pg 483
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Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China pg 523
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Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba pg 486
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Vietnam War is fought – 1959
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Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR pg 494
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Persian Gulf War begins pg 500
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USSR collapses & Russia is back –1991 pg 496
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NAFTA is formed pg 582
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WTO is formed pg 595
WTO means, World Trade Organization and it helped resolve trade disputes with the 150 countries that are apart of it.
