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Industrial Revolution
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1st successful steam engine is built
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Mexico declares its indepence
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Michael Faraday's dynamo
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Taiping rebellion
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Sepoy Mutiny in India
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Karl Marx's "Das Kapital"
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The Meiji Restoration
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Franco-Prussian War
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Spanish-Americacn War begins
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Boxer Rebellion
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Russo-Japanese War
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Franz Ferdinand is killed
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U.S. joins WWI
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Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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Treaty of Versailles is signed
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Mussolini's Fascist Party in Italy
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Russia becomes the USSR
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Stalin's rule in the USSR begins
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Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Germany attacks Poland- WWII begins
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares waar on Japan
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D-Day
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Nuremberg trials are held
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U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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Apartheid in South Africa
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Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China
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Korean War is fought
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Fidel Castro's Communism in Cuba
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Vietnam War is fought
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Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
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Persian Gulf War begins
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NAFTA is formed
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WTO is formed
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USSR collapses & Russia is back