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Perry "opens" Japan for trade
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Reign of Ismail in Egypt
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Period: to
Reign of Leopold II in Belgium
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Meiji Restoration in Japan
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Completion of Suez Canal
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United States takes over Philippines
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"Hundred days of reform" in China
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Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
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Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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First Balkan War
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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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WWI
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Ministry of Munitions established in Britain
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Italy and Bulagaria join WWI
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german males between 17 and 60 required to wrok for war effort
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Rasputin Murdered
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Russian reveloution
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Treaty of Versailles
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Keynes, "Economic Consequences of the Peace"
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Period: to
Dadaism and surrealism (artistic movements)
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Mussolini seizes power in Italy
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French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr
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Dawes Plan
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Period: to
Buildup of Nazi party in Germany
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Germany joins the League of Nations
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Stalin comes to power in U.S.S.R.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Start of collectivization in Soviet Union
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Great Depression
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Franklin Roosevelt elected U.S. president
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Period: to
Famine in Ukraine
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Hitler appoiinted chancellor in Germany
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Sergei Kirov, Stalin's number-two man, is murdered
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Mussolini invades Ethiopia
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Creation of WPA as part of New Deal
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Formation of Popular Front in France
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Marshall Plan
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Formation of Common Market
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Building of the Berln Wall
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Cuban missile crisis
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Civil Rights Act in the U.S.
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Period: to
U.S. involvement in Vietnam War
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Formation of NOW
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Student protests in Paris
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OPEC oil embargo
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Solidarity gains power in Poland
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Collapse of the Berlin Wall
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Velvet Reveloution ends communism in Czechoslovakia
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Period: to
Gulf War
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Reunification of Germany
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Paris Accord
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Chechnya declares independance from Russian Federation; Russian army begins war
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Period: to
Civil War in Yugoslavia
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Failed coup against Gorbechev in Russia