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Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto
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Ecumencial Council of the Vatican
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Bolshevik party formed in Russia
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World War I begins
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Three children at Fatima, Portugal, are granted visions of the Virgin Mary
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Soviet Union is formed
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The first Catholic bishops in China are ordained
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Hitler beomes chancellor of Germany; first Nazi concentration camp is opened
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Word War II begins
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Communist governments begin persecutions and mass murder across Europe and Asia
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Period: to
Ecumenical Council of the Vatican
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The US Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects the right ot an abortion
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The Soviet Union begins to fall