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1st successful steam engine
Built in england by James Watt.By the 1800 about 500 of Watt
s steam engnes were chugging and hissing in mines and factories throught Britain. -
Mexico declares independence
A creole priest named Father Miguel Hidalgo made the first public call for Mexican Independence. -
Michael Faraday’s dynamo
Michael Faraday discovered the connection between magentism and electricity . Dynamo is a machine that generated electricty to power an electric motor. -
Taiping rebellion
The failure of the Qing dynast to resist the Western powers led some Chinese to believe that the dynasty had lost the mandate of heaven. That belief caused many rebellions. -
Sepoy Mutiny
The spark that set off their rebellion was the introduction of a new type of British rifle that was against Hindu sepoys religion -
Karl Marx's "Das Kapital"
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The Meiji Restoration
Learnd about the risk of resisting Western demands.China had clung to its traditional ways and had been ensuccessful in keeping its sovereignty,or independent control of its government. -
Franco Prussion War
Napoleon III was captured in battle an surrendered to the Prusians -
Spanish American war
In February 1898 U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana's harbor;and many Americans immediately assumed that Spain was responsible. Congress declared war. -
Boxer Rebllion
Started attacking missionaries and Chinese converts to Christianity. -
Russo Japanese War
Japan was building an empire in the east and viewed Russia as a threat to its plans. As a result in 1904 Japanese forces attacked and eventually defeated Russia -
Franz Ferdinand Killed
Ferdinand's car drove through the Sarajevostreets, a young Serbian man, Garvilo Princip, ipened fire with his pistiiol, killing the archduke and the archduke's wife Sophie -
US joins WW1
THe passenger ship Lusitania was sunk under German policy called unrestricted submarine warfare. Killing some 1,200 people including over 120 Americans -
Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
Kerensky's government ordered a final military offensive against the central Powers along the Eastern Front. THe drive failed. -
Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy
Mussolini, who became known as Il Duce, or "the leader," wanted to build a great and glorious Italian embire. -
Treaty of Versailles is signed
The treaty was named after the French Palace of Versailles, where the treaty signing took place. -
Russia becomes the USSR
The Russian economy was beginning to improve. Russia reunited with several neighboring lands that had been part of Russion Empire. The new country was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins
Joseph Stalin became the new Soviet leader after Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin had died in 1924. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market crash
On that single day, investors sold of 16 million shares. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
The most powerful post in the German government. -
Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins
Germany launched an attack on Poland. This assault marked the start of World War 2 -
Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
General Hideki Tojo had been developing plans for a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor,Hawii. This base was home to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet. As the sun rose on Sunday morning December 7,1941, the japanese attack began -
U.S. declares war on Japan
U.S. declares war on Japan! -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded Francce. Over 150,00 troops landed on the beaches of Normandy that first day, forcing throuh the strong German defenses. -
Nuremberg trials are held
Nazi and military leaders to justice for crimes committed during the war. -
U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
On August 6, an american plane dropped an atomic bomb on Japanese city of Hiroshima. The devastation was extreme. More than 70,000 people were killed instantly, and thousands of buildings were destroyed. -
Apartheid in South Africa
The National Party instituted a policy of apartheid, which means "apartness" in the Afrikaans language. This policy diveded people intoo 4 racial groups:White, Black, Colored, and Asian. -
Korean War is fought
The North Koreans attacked South Korea. -
Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba
Rebels under the leadership of Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba's dictator and installed a Communist government. -
Vietnam War is fought
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Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China
The Great Leap -
Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
Proposed 2 radical concepts:glanost and perestroika -
Persian Gulf War begins
After negotiations failed to convince Iraq to leave Kuwait,the United Srates led a multinational force into the battle -
USSR collapses & Russia is back
Consisted of 15 seperate republics. Such as Baltic rebublics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. -
NAFTA is formed
North American Free Trade Agreement, a free trade agreement the eliminated tariffs on trade between three countries Mexico, Chike and Spain -
WTO is formed
World Trade Organization. Some 150 countries are members of the WTO, which monitors national trade policies and helps resolve trade dispute.