Abigail Elder

By AbigailElder

  • Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power and the development of machine tools. Began in Great Britain and within a few decades had spread to Western Europe and the United States.

  • 1st Sucessful steam engine is built

  • Mexico declares its Independence

  • Michael Faraday's dynamo

  • Taiping Rebellion

    A massive civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. At least 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history.Hong established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with its capital at Nanjing. The Kingdom's army controlled large parts of southern China, at its height ruling about 30 million people.

  • Sepoy Mutiny in India

    Began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region

  • Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”

    Karl Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of profit and surplus value. The employer can claim right to the profits, because he or she owns the productive capital assets which are legally protected by the capitalist state through property rights. In producing capital rather than commodities , the workers continually reproduce the economic.The economic formation of society a process of natural hisory.

  • Franco-Prussian War

    War in which a coalition of German states led by Prussia defeated France.The war marked the end of French hegemony in continental Europe and resulted in the creation of a unified Germany. It also marked the downfall of Napoleon III and the end of the Second French Empire, which was replaced by the French Third Republic.

  • The Meiji Restoration

  • Spanish-American War begins

  • Boxer Rebellion

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Franz Ferdinand is killed

  • U.S. joins WWI

  • Treaty of Versailles is signed

  • Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy

    Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento, named after the Italian peasant revolutionaries, or "Fighting Bands," from the 19th century. Commonly known as the Fascist Party, Mussolini's new right-wing organization advocated Italian nationalism, had black shirts for uniforms, and launched a program of terrorism and intimidation against its leftist opponents.

  • Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins

  • Black Tuesday Stock Market crash

    Began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries.The Roaring Twenties, the decade that followed World War I and led to the Crash, was a time of wealth and excess.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    The year 1932 had seen Hitler's meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people's frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty.Charismatic speaker, Hitler channeled popular discontent with the post-war Weimar government into support for his fledgling Nazi party. In an election held in July 1932, the Nazis won 230 governmental seats; together with the

  • Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins

    Was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September 1939 following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Nomonhan incident on 16 September 1939.The campaign ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whol

  • Japans attack on Pearl Harbor

    A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.

  • U.S. declares war on Japan

    United States Congress declared war upon the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. It was formulated an hour after the Infamy Speech presidential address of Franklin D. Roosevelt.Following the declaration, Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States, definitively bringing the United States into World War II.

  • D-Day

    June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Was for western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Norma

  • 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

    North and South Korea fought. United states supported the South. North became a more communist group.

  • Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba

  • Vietnam War is fought

    Fought between the North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Union, China and othe communist allies. South Vietnam was supported by the United States. American viewed the war as a way to prevent a Communist takeover.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR

  • Persian Gulf War begins

    Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. After 42 days of nonstop fire president bush declared a cease fire.

  • USSR collapses & Russia is back

  • NAFTA is formed

    United States and Canda signed the North American Free Trade Aggreement. Was a free trade agreement that eliminated tariffs on trade between the three crountries. NAFTA was designed to improve the crountries economicmies, but many Mexicans feared the economic effects of increased competition from foreign imports.

  • WTO is formed