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War that confronted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It happened between 1775 and 1783 -
Colonists believed they did not have self-government. The British forced colonists to allow British soldiers to sleep and eat in their homes. The colonists joined together to fight Britain and gain independence. -
France was on the brink of bankruptcy due to its involvement in the American Revolution and King Louis XVI's extravagant spending. This led to a people's revolt against the inequalities of French society, the corruption of royal officials, and despair owing to widespread economic hardship. -
created by the French soldier Napoleon Bonaparte, who in 1804 was crowned emperor of the French. That coronation led to war with several European states, especially Great Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia, which wanted to prevent French expansion. Those wars are called Napoleonic wars or coalition wars. -
He was king of Spain between 1808 and 1833. -
The Spanish-American wars of independence were a series of armed conflicts that developed in the American territories of the Spanish Empire at the beginning of the 19th century -
the Cortes of Cádiz promulgated the Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, affectionately known as "La Pepa" for having been enacted on Saint Joseph's day. The constitution had ten titles and 384 articles and was of a markedly liberal character. -
with the intent of redrawing the borders of Europe after the chaos caused by the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars. The Congress was initially dominated by the four great powers who had deposed Napoleon: Austria, Russia, Prussia and Great Britain. -
The revolutions of 1820 arose as a reaction to the Restoration that occurred as a result of the defeat of revolutionary France, and which implied the reestablishment of the Old Regime and the application of legitimist principles. -
Is the period of the contemporary history of Spain that takes place between 1820 and 1823, and which constitutes the intermediate stage of the three in which the reign of Ferdinand VII is conventionally divided, being subsequent to the Absolutist Sexennium and prior to the Ominous Decade. -
President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
The revolution began in France in 1830 and meant the overthrow of the Bourbons and the implantation of a constitutional monarchy in the hands of Louis Philippe de Orleans. His influence expanded outside the French border and led to the independence of Belgium and Poland's confrontation against the Russians. -
It was the period in the history of France between the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 and the July Revolution of 1830, during which the House of Bourbon again occupied the French throne. -
She was queen of Spain between 1833 and 1868, thanks to the repeal of the Succession Regulation of 1713 through the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830. -
two wars (1839–42/1856–60) between China and Britain resulting from the Chinese refusal to allow the importation of opium from India. China ceded Hong Kong after the British victory in 1842. The British and French victory in the second war established free trade in Chinese ports and the legalization of the opium trade -
The French Revolution of 1848 was a popular insurrection that took place in Paris 1848. King Louis-Philippe I of France to abdicate and gave way to the Second French Republic. Its causes were fundamentally economic and political. In 1847, an agricultural crisis broke out -
The Civil War or American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865 as a result of a controversy over slavery, which dates back to the origins of the country. -
The Meiji Restoration transformed Japan. The government became centralized around the figure of the emperor, and the political system now allowed people to pursue new opportunities. -
Garibaldi handed Naples and Sicily to him in November 1860 and by 1861 Italy was declared as a kingdom. Only Venice and Rome would remain under foreign control and they became a part of Italy in 1866 and 1871 respectively. Thus, the Unification of Italy was completed. -
System of international alliances that Otto von Bismarck sponsored after the Franco-Prussian war to isolate France and thus avoid its hypothetical revenge after the defeat of 1871. -
After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the German princes proclaimed the founding of the German Empire in 1871 at Versailles, uniting all scattered parts of Germany except Austria. Victory in the Franco-Prussian War proved the capstone of the nationalist issue, rallying the other German states into unity. -
Political regime in force in Spain from its proclamation by the Cortes on February 11, 1873, until December 29, 1874, when the pronouncement of General Martínez Campos led to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. -
Officially son of Queen Elizabeth II and King consort Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, with the beginning of his reign the First Republic ended and the period known as the Restoration began. -
They sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people. -
Territorial disputes in Africa between France and Great Britain. In this town, nestled in present-day Sudan, French and British clashed in their claim to build a railway line that connected some of their African colonies. -
The appearance of gold in the Witwatersrand, now Johannesburg, caused the war between England and the South African republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State between the years 1899-1902. -
Alfonso XIII of Spain, called "the African" was king of Spain from his birth until the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. He personally assumed the Crown when he was sixteen years old, on May 17, 1902. -
The First Moroccan Crisis or the Tangier Crisis was an international crisis over the status of Morocco. Germany wanted to challenge France's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain. -
In October of 1911, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system. -
The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera was the political regime that existed in Spain from the coup d'état of the captain general of Catalonia, Miguel Primo de Rivera, until his resignation on January 28, 1930 and his replacement by the "soft dictatorship" of General Dámaso Berenguer. -
The crash of '29 was the most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the stock market in the United States. Its impact, its global reach and the long duration of its consequences caused the so-called Great Depression. -
The Second Spanish Republic, whose official name was the Spanish Republic, replacing the monarchy of Alfonso XIII, and at the end of the Civil War, which gave way to the Franco dictatorship. -
The proclamation of the Second Republic on April 14, 1931 gave rise to elections to the Constituent Cortes, which, after half a year of work and hard confrontations between the different political options, approved the Constitution of the Spanish Republic -
It was a workers' insurrection that was part of the revolutionary general strike organized by the socialists (PSOE) throughout Spain known as the October Revolution of 1934 and that only took root completely in Asturias. -
This conflict was caused by an attempted military coup against the Spanish government, which had the purpose of establishing a dictatorship. The coup began with the uprising of Spanish military troops that were in Africa -
Franco's Spain, 1939–75. His authoritarian regime was based on the emergency war powers granted him as head of state. The first decade of his government saw harsh repression by military tribunals, political purges, and economic hardship. -
It was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. Most of the nations of the world were involved in it. -
Also known as the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its allies. -
Was a surprise military offensive carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
International organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries that undertook to maintain international peace and security, foster friendly relations among nations and promote social progress, improved standards of living and human rights. -
The Cold War began with the announcement of the Truman Doctrine, the ideological struggle between capitalism in the West and communism in the East., and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. -
The Arab–Israeli conflict is the phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between various Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century. -
Is a document adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution 217 A (III), which includes in its 30 articles the human rights considered basic -
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. At the same time, it was an unofficial war between the United States and the Soviet Union. It provided the first confrontation between two nuclear powers. And as the war progressed the conflict demonstrated how difficult it would be for either side to use atomic bombs decisively in battle. -
The Bandung Conference was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which had just acceded to independence. It was organized by independentist leaders -
The main cause of the conflict was to try to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. This was the claim of some communist guerrillas in this area such as the Vietcong or the National Liberation Front. -
The wall was built because, for the communist leaders, it was necessary to stop the flow of people fleeing from the east side to the capitalist side. Another objective was to prohibit the "border crusaders" who lived in the communist economy but worked on the western side. -
In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. -
Is the ongoing social and armed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians for control of the historic region of Palestine, which dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. -
American foreign policy that sought to contain the expansion of communism at the beginning of the Cold War. It takes its name from President Harry Truman and was based on offering economic and military assistance to countries to prevent them from falling into the Soviet orbit.