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Jun 8, 1215
Magna Carta
Document to create rules to stop king from taking advantage of his power -
May 29, 1453
Mehmed II takes Constantinople
took 10 years for him to take control of Constantinople, Ottoman (Mehmed II got control) -
Aug 10, 1492
Columbus sailing across the Atlantic
Columus sailed and found America -
Landing of the Mayflower
people coming to America from England in hopes of freedom -
English Bill of Rights
The rights for English citizens -
Car invented
first car with motor and engine -
Declaration of Independence for the United States
Laws of rights/freedoms for US citizens / indpendence being given to US -
Radification of US Constitution
editing constitution and adding other laws/liberties -
Start of French Revolution
crisis and problems caused fighting (war) -
Napoleon declared Emperor
In Paris, Napoleon was named the highest power -
Napoleon defeated at Battle of Waterloo
loses to Duke of Wellington, goes downhill from there -
Period: to
US civil war
fighting between north and south of usa -
Man's first powered flight (airplane)
Wright brothers created first flying vehicle -
Mexican Revolution
war in Mexico that hurt the government -
China: Republican Revolution
fighting caused by uprisings -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
ruler killed which resulted in World War l -
U.S. enters WW 1
U.S. joins allies -
Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin led fighting which ended up having him in charge -
Armistice ww1
President Wilson creates day to remember veterans -
Germany invades Poland - WW2
Hilter leads Germans to fighting and take over Poland -
Pearl Harbor
"a day that will live in infamy"
Japanesse bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
Germans surrender
germans give up fighting at Stalingard -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
1st bomb dropped by US during WW2 -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
2nd bomb US dropped during ww2 -
Japan surrenders
on USS Missouri Japan gives up and ends war -
Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, MO at Westminster College
infamous speech given about iron curtain being descended -
Berlin Aircraft
When Russians closed Berlin travel ways to try and stop people from getting resources -
Communist's takeover China
convert China to communism -
Period: to
Korean War
war involving south and north korea -
Vietnam war begins
US enters war in Vietnam -
Berlin Wall constructed
East Germans built the wall to not let the west go -
Cubban Missle Crisis
US and Soviet Union agrueing about nuclear-weapons in Cuba -
Kennedy Assassinated
Kennedy shot most likely by Lee Harvey Oswald while in a Dallas parade -
Tet offensive
multiple attacks towards South Vietnam -
Woodstock
famous music festival -
First man to walk the moon (US)
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were first men to walk on moon representing the United States -
Watergate Scandal
burglars caught trying to steal and hide - associated with President Richard Nixon -
Last Americans leave Vietnam
ending the war involvement in Vietnam -
Tiananmen Square Protest
Troops in China went around arresting protesters -
End of Apartheid and Nelson Mandela's Release
he supported apartheid and when he got into a protest he got arrest - was released after 27 years -
Re-Unification of Germany
Germany coming together again -
USSR ends
Russia's communism is over