Elise Hampton By luckyrose Jan 1, 1700 Industrial Revolution Jan 1, 1712 1st successful steam engine is built Jan 1, 1821 Mexico declares its indepence Jan 1, 1831 Michael Faraday's dynamo Jan 1, 1850 Taiping rebellion Jan 1, 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in India Jan 1, 1867 Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" Jan 1, 1868 The Meiji Restoration Jan 1, 1870 Franco-Prussian War Jan 1, 1898 Spanish-Americacn War begins Jan 1, 1899 Boxer Rebellion Jan 1, 1904 Russo-Japanese War Jan 1, 1914 Franz Ferdinand is killed Jan 1, 1916 U.S. joins WWI Jan 1, 1917 Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Jan 1, 1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed Jan 1, 1919 Mussolini's Fascist Party in Italy Jan 1, 1922 Russia becomes the USSR Jan 1, 1924 Stalin's rule in the USSR begins Jan 1, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash Jan 1, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Jan 1, 1939 Germany attacks Poland- WWII begins Dec 7, 1941 Japans attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 U.S. declares waar on Japan Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Jan 1, 1949 Nuremberg trials are held Aug 6, 1945 U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima Jan 1, 1948 Apartheid in South Africa Jan 1, 1949 Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China Period: Jun 1, 1950 to Jan 1, 1951 Korean War is fought Jan 1, 1959 Fidel Castro's Communism in Cuba Jan 1, 1970 Vietnam War is fought Jan 1, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR Jan 1, 1990 Persian Gulf War begins Jan 1, 1992 NAFTA is formed Jan 1, 1995 WTO is formed Jan 1, 2000 USSR collapses & Russia is back