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In 410 C.E., the Visigoths, led by Alaric, broke through the walls of Rome and sacked the capital of the Roman Empire. http://www.ushistory.org/civ/6f.aspc
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It refers to a time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-dark-ages-definition-history-timeline.html
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Between 1095, when the crusades first launched, and 1291, when the Latin Christians were finally expelled from their kingdom in Syria, there were numerous expeditions to the Holy Land, to Spain, and even to the Baltic; the Crusades continued for several centuries after 1291, usually as military campaigns intended to halt or slow the advance of the Muslim power or to conquer pagan areas. https://www.britannica.com/event/Crusades
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The Renaissance was a cultural, scholarly and socio-political movement which stressed the rediscovery and application of texts and thought from classical antiquity. https://www.thoughtco.com/renaissance-timeline-1221932
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Roman Catholic Churches in the 15th century began to work as more of a power struggle than a belief system. In the 16th century attempt to restructure Roman Cathlocism, the Protestant religion was formed. This movement was seen, by many, as the beginning of the Modern Era. http://www.softschools.com/timelines/protestant_reformation_timeline/218/
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Was a period of scientific awakening, largely center around France, although the starting point for the Enlightenment was John Lock's book Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which was a relentless attack on metaphysical arguments. The Enlightenment met the church head-on, taking previously avoided issues. It was at least initially, an act of great courage to defy the church. http://changingminds.org/explanations/research/articles/enlightenment.htm
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The Industrial Revolution was a time in the 18th century when many important iventions were made. The inventions made work easier and cheaper. As these inventions created manufacturing and industry, many people also moved away from farms into cities. http://www.softschools.com/timelines/industrial_revolution_timeline/40/
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The French Revolution was a revolutionary movement that took place in France and reached its first climax in 1789, hence the name "Revolution of 1789". https://www.britannica.com/event/French-Revolution
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Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. A month later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. It divided Europe into two armed camps. The Triple Alliance made up Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. The enemy, The Triple Entente of France, Russia, and Great Britain. As countries joined, The Triple Alliance was known as the Central Powers and The Triple Entente was Allied Forces. http://www.kidzworld.com/article/5701-overview-of-world-war-i
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The war began with the evasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and concluded on September 2, 1945, with the official surrender of the last Axis nation, Japan. However, in Asia, the war began earlier with Japanese interventions in China, and in Europe, the war ended earlier with the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945 http://world-war-2.info/summary/
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The Cold War was a war between the communist Soviet Union against the United States NATO helped prevent the Cold War from becoming too extreme.
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The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact.
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Was a political and military alliance established between the Soviet Union and several eastern European countries. The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the NATO.
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Communist East Germany built a wall that surrounded all of the West Berlin during the Cold War. The Fall of the Berlin Wall was for the people in GDR to be free to cross rhe country's bornders.
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The Fall of the Soviet Union started in the late 1980's and was complete when the country broke up into 15 independent states on December 25, 1991. This signaled the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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It was created by the Maastricht Treaty. It was a political and economic union between European countries which makes its own policies concerning the members' economies, society's, laws and to some extent security. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-the-european-union-1221595
