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1st successful steam engine is built
I was slow at fires but it played for critical in ovations in the near future.It was faster and more efficient then driving machinery. It helped kick start the industrial revolution on it way. -
Industrial Revolution
It is the start to the change in history. There are more machines and new ones. There is a need for a new power source to power the new machines. -
Mexico declares its independence
Miguel hidalgo is one who probably pushed till he got the independence for Mexico. He challenged the authority of Spain and won miraculously in the long run anyway. Mexico’s final hope was Iturbide they thought he could win the war. -
Michael Faraday’s dynamo
It made it possible to generate energy. The machine uses a magnet through a coil of copper. He now can produce electricity engine -
Taiping rebellion
Hong and his followers captured large territories in southeastern china. By 1853 controlled the city of Nanjing. They were finally beat in 1964 but they took out 20 million Chinese soldiers. -
Sepoy Mutiny in India
Sepoys are The Indian soldiers who fought in the British army. the spark that set off their rebellion was the introduction of a new type of British rifle. Before inserting a cartridge into the rifle a soldier had to bite off the end of an ammunition cartridge which was greased with pork and beef fat. -
Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”
It was a three part work. He put for his arguments against capitalism. One of its evils Marx said was how capitalism disrupts the relationship between labor and profit. -
The Meiji Restoration
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Franco-Prussian War
The Prussia fought France for one year. The Prussians one the war in 1871. They in there minds thought we won some probably thought I just killed another men. -
Spanish-American War begins
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxers started attacking missionaries and Chinese converts to Christianity. In June 1900 the boxers laid siege to the foreign compounds in Beijing and geld the foreigners hostage for 55 days. -
Russo-Japanese War
Japan thought Russia was a threat to there plans so they attacked. Japan won the war. The defeat shock a lot of Russians. -
Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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Franz Ferdinand is killed
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U.S. joins WWI
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Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy
the party took its name from the Latin word fasces which referred to an ancient roman symbol for the unity and strength of the sate. Fascism is an authoritarian form of government that places the good of the nation above all else including individual needs and rights. Fascists envision an aggressive state ruled by a dictator an all-powerful leader who makes all major decisions. -
Treaty of Versailles is signed
the treaty came much closer to Clemenceau’s vision than to Wilson’s. Germany was forced to pay an enormous amount of money to the war’s victims. The treaty also assessed responsibility for the war. -
Russia becomes the USSR
Russian economy was beginning to improve. That same year Russia reunited with several neighboring lands that had been part of the Russian empire before 1917. The new country was called the union of soviet socialist republics-also known as the soviet union. -
Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins
shortly after the communist soviet union was formed. After a struggle for power joseph Stalin became the new soviet leader. Although Karl Marx had predicted that he state would gradually wither away under communism, Stalin took a very different approach. Instead of reducing the government’s power he worked to turn the soviet union into a totalitarian stat intent on controlling every aspect of soviet life. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market crash
one that single day ], investors sold off 16 million shares. With few people wanting to buy the stocks that flooded the market stock prices collapsed completely. Many investors were in deep financial trouble as well. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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D-Day
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U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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Apartheid in South Africa
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Korean War is fought
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Vietnam War is fought
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Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China
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Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba
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Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
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USSR collapses & Russia is back
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NAFTA is formed
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Persian Gulf War begins
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