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Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which it failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities -
Period: 500 to 1500
The Middle Ages (Dark Ages)
The dark age is describing the period between when the fall of the roman empire and the beaning of Italian Renaissance and the Age of Exploration. In this period they marked by frequent warfare and a virtual disappearance of urban life -
Period: 1095 to 1291
Crusades
It was a sequence of religious wars. Trying to convert people to Christianity. -
Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
The Renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. -
Period: 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
started with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses had now swept across Europe and entrenched itself, making a clean break from the Roman Catholic Church and the pope's authority.The Peace of Augsburg ended this the Augsburg allowed for the coexistence of Catholicism and Lutheranism in Germany, to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War. -
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The Age of Enlightenment
The Age of enlightenment refers to a age of Enlightenment. The age of Enlightenment ended with they french Revelation because that revelation destroyed everything they worked for -
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Industrial Revolution
The manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production.Britain led the way in this transformation -
French Revolution
The French Revolution started because King Louis XVI needed money and he tried to tax the people. Napoleon took power, he attempted to create a French Empire, where he conquered much of Europe for a short time. -
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WWI
The starting point of WW1 was assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. The Serbian nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke. -
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WWII
Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany. Germany and Hitler lost they where called the axis power -
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Cold War
The Cold War is the name given to the strained relations between the countries of NATO those of the Warsaw Pact. The end of the Cold War period and the collapse of the Soviet Union took place around 20 years ago. -
Creation of the European Union
Was created by the Maastricht Treaty. It is a political and economic union between European countries which makes its own policies concerning the members' economies, societies, laws and to some extent security -
NATO/ Warsaw Pact
The 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 a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Europe the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party broadcast a change in the city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day he said, citizens of GDR were free to cross the country's borders when ever they wont -
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative. USSR pulls out its nuclear and conventional forces from Warsaw Pact
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