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Great Trek
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Treaty of Nanking
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Britain's First Public Health Law
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Realism
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Condition of working class improves
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Modernization of Paris
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Reign of Napoleon III
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Perry opens Japan
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Pasteur studies fermentation and develops pasteurization
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Development of germ theory
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Great Rebellion
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On the Origin of Species published
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Unification of Italy
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Industrialization of Russia
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Freeing of Russian serfs
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US Civil War
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Reign of Ismail
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Creation of International Working Men's Association
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Austro-Prussian War
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Meiji Restoration
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Mendeleev creates periodic table of the elements
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Completion of Suez Canal
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Franco-Prussian War
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Kulturkampf
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Paris Commune
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Three Emperors' League
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Birthrate declines
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German surgeons use antiseptic principle
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Migration Restrictions
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English law gives married women property rights
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Triple Alliance
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First social security laws
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Berlin Conference
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Creation of Hindu Indian National Congress
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Russian-French Alliance
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Electric streetcars introduced
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Sino-Japanese War
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British defeat Africans at Omdurman
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US takes over Philippines
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Hundred Days of Reform
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Dreyfus Affair
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The White Man's Burden Published
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Bloody Sunday in Russia
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Heart of Darkness and Imperialism published
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October Manifesto
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Algeciras Conference
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Welfare reform in Great Britain
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End of Qing Dynasty
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First Balkan War
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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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Battle of the Marne
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Ottoman Empire joins war
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Ministry of Munitions established
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Armenian Genocide
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Italy joins Triple Entente
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Lusitania sinks
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Battle of Somme
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Easter Rebellion
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Auxiliary Service Law
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Arab Revolt
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Russian Revolution
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US joins war
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Russian Civil War
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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German Revolution
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Armistice
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Treaty of Versailles
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Rutherford splits atom
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Freudian psychology gains attention
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Live public radio broadcasts
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Stream-of-consciousness literature develops
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Existentialism
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Dadaism and surrealism
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New Economic Policy
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Mussolini seizes power
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France and Belgium occupy Ruhr
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Dawes Plan
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Build-up of Nazi Party
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Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty
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Stalin comes to power
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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First Five-Year Plan
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Start of collectivization
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Lateran Agreement
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Great Depression
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Famine in Ukraine
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Hitler appointed chancellor
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Enabling Act
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Murder of Sergei Kirov
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Creation of WPA
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Formation of Popular Front
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Start of Great Purges
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Germany occupys Rhineland
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Spanish Civil War
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
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Muinch Conference
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Germany invades Poland; Start of WWII
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Creation of Vichy government
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Battle of Britain
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Germany invades USSR
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Holocaust
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Midway
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El Alamein
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Teheran Conference
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Invasion of Normandy
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Big Science
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Decolonization
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Yalta Conference
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Germany capitulates
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Potsdam Conference
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Partition of India
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Creation of Israel
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Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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China becomes communist
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Formation of NATO
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Korean War
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De-Stalinization
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Warsaw Pact
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Doctor Zhivago published
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Hungarian Revolution
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Formation of Common Market
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Fifth Republic of France
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Building of Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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US Involvement in Vietnam War
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Formation of NOW
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Student protests in Paris
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USSR invades Czechoslovakia
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First man on moon
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Watergate scandal
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OPEC oil embargo
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Helsinki Conference
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Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister