Final Project: 1750-2000 By jleader Period: 1644 to 1911 Qing Dynasty Period: 1750 to 1800 High Point of Atlantic Slave Trade Period: 1760 to 1789 1st Industrial Revolution 1775 American Revolution 1776 Wealth of Nations Published 1789 French Revolution 1797 Latin American Revolutions Period: 1800 to 1923 Decline of Ottoman Empire 1839 Opium Wars 1848 Communist Manifesto Published 1853 Commander Perry opens Japan Period: 1853 to 1856 Crimean War 1858 British Gain Control of India 1859 Suez Canal Built 1861 Russian Serfs Emancipated 1861 Italian Unification 1868 Meji Restoration Period: 1870 to 1914 2nd Industrial Revolution 1871 German Unification Period: 1875 to 1900 Scramble for Africa 1889 Berlin Confrence Period: 1890 to 1899 European Spheres of Influence in China 1911 Chinese Revolution Period: 1914 to 1918 WWI 1919 Treaty of Versailles 1919 Rise of Fascism in Europe Period: 1929 to 1941 Great Depression 1933 Nazi Rise to Power (Germany) Period: 1936 to 1945 The Great Purge (USSR) Period: 1937 to 1945 WWII Period: 1941 to 1945 The Holocaust Period: 1946 to 1991 Cold War 1947 Japanese Empire Ends 1949 NATO Established 1955 Warsaw Pact Period: 1960 to 1970 African Independence 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1966 Military Coup in Nigeria beginning of military dictatorship in Nigeria, and first military coup in Africa 1967 Chinese Cultural Revolution 1975 Communist Government in Angola (Peoples Republic of Angola) 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall 1991 Earliest Web Browser Released 1993 Formation of EU 1994 South Africa becomes Democratic, Nelson Mandela 2001 9/11
beginning of military dictatorship in Nigeria, and first military coup in Africa
