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The first Industrial Revolution showed vast improvements in agricultural work, railroads, cotton mills, and in the coal/iron industry.
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Romanticism was a reaction to the enlightenment. It was a kind of revolt against the scientific rationalization of nature caused by the industrial revolution.
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The Congress of Vienna, led by Prince Klemens von Matternich was an alliance based on the Principle of Intervention. The members would stay loyal to eahc other and keep each other in power and make sure that no Napolean-like figure arose again.
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After being defeated at Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.
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The second industrial revolution was a technological revolution, and demonstrated the switch from an agriculture based economy, to an economy based on mass production, electricity, and production lines.
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The Communist Manifesto was a declaration of communism writte nby Karl Marx and Freidrich Engles, comissioned by the Comunist Party.
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At this time, England produces over half the worlds coal and manufactored goods.
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King Monkut was the king of Siam and opened the country to Western influence and modern development.
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The Sepoy Indians were hired as a conscription army by the British East India Company. Ghandi described the British position as a "subtle display of force" and a "deprivation of a self-defense system" The British squash the Sepoy rebellion.
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Otto von Bismarck was crowned 'kaiser' (king) and ruled Germany with a realist mindset.
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The Civil War was fought between the North/Union and the South/Confederates.
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In 1867 the US purcahsed Alaska from Russia.
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In 1869 the first transcontinental railroad was completed in the US.
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The Philippine War was caused by yellow press, and the US' interest in Cuba. We fought Spain for Cuba and eventually won it along with Guam, Peurto Rico, and the Philippines. The Philippines, lead by Emilio Aquinarde revolted against the US. The US, after enduring "the White Man's Burden" of Americanizing the Philippines release it.
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Bloody Sunday was the name for the day when unarmed protestors delivering a petition to Czar Nicholas II were shot the Imperial Guard.
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The Triple Entente consisted of Russia, France, and the United Kingdom.
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The Central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Romania.
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The first world war began at the murder of the archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to Austira's throne.
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Rasputain, an ex-monk and advisor to Czar Nicholas II's wife Alexandra was killed by the royal family, first by arsenic, then by bullets, and finally by being bound and drowned.
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The Russian Revolution, also known the Communist Revolution, was an umbrella term for a series of revolutions against the communist government in Russia in 1917 which lead to Lenin's rule.
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The February Revolution was the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, lead by Lenin and aided by Germany. "Peace, Land, Bread"
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Under the NEP, for equal distribution of wealth, of new leader Lenin, the country falls into a great famine. Likewise, under Stalin's more communist rule, after Lenin's death, the country once again becomes hungry.
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The Trial of Mahatma Ghandi led to his imprisonment for treason, and inspired the Nation of India against the United Kingdom.
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In 1922 Mussolini demanded complete control of Italy and began his faschist government after it was given to him.
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The Beer Hall Putsch was the failed attempt by Hitler to take over the German Parliment which led to his incarceration. During his six-year sentence, he wrote Mein Kampf.
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The Salt March was a peaceful protest led by Ghandi.
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The Long March was a series of marches by the Communist Army of China lead by Mao Zedong.
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The League of Nations was created by Woodrow Wilson as a result of WW1, to diarm and protect democracy.
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Kristallnacht was an anti-Semetic attack led by the Nazis. 'The Night of Broken Glass'
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The Secod World War began when the Germans decided to attack Poland.
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Fifteen years after opposing Stalin Leon Trotsky is killed while working at his desk.
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D-Day was the day the Allies landed in Europe to liberate it from the Nazis.
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The Pentagon Papers are a history of the US' involvment in Vietnam, later revealed in the NY TImes.
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Communist Ho Chi Minh declared independence from France for Vietnam.
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The Iron Curtain was the idealogical manifestation of the Berlin War, which separated East and West Berlin. It formally ended when the wall was knocked down and the German Reunification took place in 1990.
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The Yalta Conference was the meeting of Stalin, Churchhill, and Roosevelt to discuss the state of nations after WW2.
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The UN is an intergovernmental peacekeeping organization and a descendant of the League of Nations.
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The Cold War was exactly a war. It was a more a long state of mistrust between the nations, peppered with small wars and battles fought between Korea and Vietnam and communist revolutions in countries like Mongolia and Cambodia.
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The Truman Doctrine was the US foreign policy set forth by President Truman that outlined how the United States' would react to communism.
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The Partition of India was the relinquishment of India by the united Kingdom, caused, in large part, by Mahatma Ghandi. The Partition lead to the creation of Pakistan and India.
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The Marshall Plan was the US iniative to aid Europe after WW2.
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The Korean War, part of the Cold War, was a war between the United Nations and Korea.
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The Battle of Diem Bien Phu started with a sneak attack by the Vienamese on the French who were trying to cut of Vietnam's ties to other communist countries
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The Battle of Diem Bien Phu started with the sneak attack by Vietnamese on the French who were trying to cut Vietnamese ties to other communist countries.
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While in a motorcade in Dallas, president Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was the fabricated claim by the US that Vietnamese ships opened fire on American ships.
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The Mai Lai Massacre was the murder of 300-500 Vietnamese civilians commited by US soldiers. Only William Calley Jr was convicted.
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The Civil Rights activist was assassinated by a sniped while standing on the balcony of his hotel room.
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Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin help the US advance in the Space Race against Russia.
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The Kent State Shootings were comitted by the Nation Guard who opened fire on a group of peaceful protesters at Kent State University, killing four people, and injuring nine.
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Mikhail Gorbachev came into office in Russia after a campaign promising openness and resurrection.
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What started as peaceful protest turned into a country-wide taboo, and the death of Hu Yaobang.