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Dec 24, 1430
Age of Exploration: 1430-1700
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Dec 24, 1440
The Renaissance: 1440's-1600's
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Dec 24, 1455
War of the Roses: 1455-1485
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Dec 24, 1492
Reconquista: 1492
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Dec 24, 1517
Protestant Reformation: 1517-1648
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Dec 24, 1525
Peasants Revolt in Germany: 1525
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Dec 24, 1545
Catholic Reformation: 1545-1648
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Dec 24, 1550
Scientific Revolution: 1550-1700
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Dec 24, 1562
Frist French War of Religion: 1562-1598
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Dec 24, 1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: 1572
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Thirty Years War- 1618-1648
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English Civil War- 1642-1651
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Glorious Revolution- 1688-1698
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Enlightenment- 1690-1780
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War of Spanish Succession- 1701-1714
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War of Austrian Succession- 1740-1748
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Seven Years War- 1754-1763
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French and Indian War-1756-1763
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Pugachev’s Rebellion- 1773-1775
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American Revolution- 1775-1783
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First Industrial Revolution- 1780-1850
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French Revolution- 1789-1799
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Romanticism- 1790-1850
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Reign of Terror- 1793-1794
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Napoleonic Wars- 1803-1815
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Napoleon Bonaparte is voted emperor of France for life- 1803
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Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe- 1814
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Bourbon Monarch is Restored- 1816
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Young Italy was formed- 1830’s
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Victorian Era- 1837-1901
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Revolutions in France, Germany & Austria- 1848
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Communist Manifesto was Written- 1848
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Unification of Italy- 1848-1870
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Unification of Germany-1850-1871
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Harriet Beech Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin-1852
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Crimean War- 1853-1856
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American Civil War- 1861-1865
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Austro-Prussian War- 1866
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Franco-Prussian War- 1870-1871
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Greatest period of economic growth in the US- 1870-1900
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Second Industrial Revolution- 1870-1914
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New Imperialism- 1870-1914
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Congress of Berlin-1878
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Japan turns militaristic- 1890-1930
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Russo-Japanese War- 1904
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World War I- 1914-1918
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Sinking of the Lusitania- 1915
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February Revolution, March Revolution and Bolshevik Revolution- 1917
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Wilson’s 14 Points- 1918
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Paris Peace Conference/Signing of the Congress of Berlin - 1919
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Suffrage for Women- 1920
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Japan takes Manchuria- 1931
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Hitler withdraws Germany from League of Nations; Geneva Disarmament Conference- 1933
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Germany rebuilds military; Italy invades Ethiopia- 1935
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Haile Selassie at the League of Nations; Germany occupies Rhineland; Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty-1936
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Japan invades China- 1937
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Anschluss; Munich Conference -1938
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World War II- 1939-1945
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Germany invades Czechoslovakia; Hitler-Stalin Pact; British French Ultimatum; Germany invades Poland; GB and France declare war on Germany; Soviet Union invades Poland- 1939
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All of W Europe falls to Blitzkrieg; Tripartite Pact; German invasion of N. Africa; Battle of Britain begins- 1940
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German army rescues the Italian army in the Balkans; New Order, Final Solution, Holocaust; Germany invades the Soviet Union; death camps in Soviet Union; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; Germany declares war on US- 1941
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Battle of Midway; North Africa campaign; formation of the Allied Command; Free French; Allied Bombing strategy; V Rockets; Germany first-Island Hopping- 1942
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Allied invasion of Italy; Battle of Stalingrad; Tehran Conference- 1943
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Assassination attempt on Hitler; Normandy Invasion; Iwo Jima; Battle of the Bulge- 1944
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Yalta Conference; Germany surrenders; Manhattan Project; Potsdam Conference/Ultimatum; Hiroshima and Nagasaki- 1945
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Nuremburg Trials- 1945-1946
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Truman Doctrine Issued- 1947
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Cold War- 1947-1991
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Marshall Plan- 1948
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Berlin Airlift- 1948-1949
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NATO is formed- 1949
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Khruschev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union- 1953
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Civil Rights Movement- 1954-1968
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Vietnam War- 1955-1975
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Europe Economic Community was created- 1957
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Eisenhower Doctrine issued- 1957
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1960: Feminist Movement
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Bay of Pigs Invasion- 1961
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Cuban Missile Crisis- 1962
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Beginning of the British Invasion- 1962
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JFK’s assassination- 1963
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March on Washington- 1964
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution- 1964
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Mid 1960's: Prague Spring- Czechoslovakia
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1966: issue of Algeria wanting to be independent from France with Charles de Gaulle as leader who withdraws France from NATO, declining its power
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1966: Leonid Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as SU leader
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6 Day War-1967
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1967: Six Day War (Arabs and Israelis)
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1970's: Watergate Scandal
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US and North Vietnam agree to gradually withdraw their troops- 1973
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1973: OAPEC (Arab countries place oil embargo on US because they support Israel)
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1973: Détente (and Helsinki Accords)
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1975: Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Camp David Accords
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1977: Feminists' Movement (Roe vs. Wade)
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1978: Iranian Hostage Crisis
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1979: Maastricht Treaty
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1980's: Reaganomics (Ronald Reagan) and Margaret Thatcher (accomplishments)
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1980's: Mujahjadeen begin civil war against Afghanistan's communist government
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1980's: Mikhail Gorbachev- leader of SU who is the "New Communist"
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1980's: perestroika and glasnost
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1980's: Boris Yeltsin- elected president of Russia
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1980's: Green Movement
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1980's: Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution/Red Guard
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1990's-2000's: terrorism (9/11, Osama Bin Laden)