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start of the French revolution
the french revolution was caused because the political conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the reform of taxes -
tousaint louverture leads slave revolt
he began his military career as a leader of the slave rebellion in 1791. he lead the haitains to independence -
Haiti wins independence
Haiti wins independence being lead by a former slave Toussaint L'Ouverture -
simon bolivar liberates colombia
the indepence of colombia was led by simon bolivar who also led military campaigns which provided him with economic resources to complete his victory over the spanish. -
mexico gains independence
mexico gains indepence being led by hidalgo with his launch of "cry for Dolores" -
san martin liberates chile
san martins army freed chile at the battle of chacabuco -
simon bolivar liberates venezula
colonist in Venezuela rebelled against high taxes and they claimed independence when napoleon invaded spain because it treatened spains ability to govern their colonies. -
san martin liberates argentina
san martin is from Argentina and leads his country during the wars to independence. he also liberates Peru and chile. -
san martin liberates peru
san martin invaded peru and declared indepence in lima puting himself as dictater. -
father Miguel Hidalgo inspires revolution in Mexico
Hildago creates grito de dolores (cry of dolores) when he launches the idea of mexico's revolution against the spanish -
simon bolivar liberates ecuador
after gaining independence with venezula from spain bolivar decided to move throughout south america and liberate ecuador from spain as well -
bolivar liberates bolivia
he liberated bolivia from spain and was their first president. -
guisseppi mazzini creates young italy
this was a policical movemnet for young italians -
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zollverein
the zollverein was a group of german states. this was formed to manage taxes and economic polocies. -
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war with denmark
the war with denmarck fought against the kingdom of prussia and the mepire of austria. it was fought for the control of the duchies. -
napoleon becomes emperor of france
napoleon was a military leader who conquered much of Europe and after crowned himself emperor -
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italian war in the crimean war
this war was caused because of the rights of christian minorities in the holy land. a long term cause was the decline of the ottoman empire -
garibaldis red shirts capture sicily
led by garibaldi a group of volunteers sailed to sicily in order to conquer the kingdom of the two sicilies -
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camillo cavour becomes prime minister
he played a huge role in the unification of italy and he devoted himself to the liberation of northern Italy from Austrian domination. -
victor emmanuel the second is crowned king of unified italy
first he was the king of sardina then became the first king of united italy since the 6th century -
bismarck becomes prime minister
bismarck was important because he unified germany so he became prime minister. -
blood and iron speech
a speech given by otto von bismarck -
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war with austria
a war between Austria and Prussia. the major result was a shift in power in the German states away from the austrians and towards the prussians. -
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war with france
a war with France and Prussia. it was caused by the prussians trying to extend german unifaction. -
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second reich
the second Reich was the German empire. this was made up of two compromises, the first one being between the king of prussia and the rulers of the other german states and the second being to accept a unified germany.