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17th century

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Textile Industrial Revolution in England

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Post 1850

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2nd Industrial Revolution or steel Industrial Revolution

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June 28, 1914

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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, Austrian Hungarian empire

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July 1914

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Diplomatic crisis:
Blank check ultimatum
Russian mobilization
Schlieffen plan
Belgian neutrality

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August 1914

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WW1 begins

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1915

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Italy and Ottomans enter the fray

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1917

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Americans enter war

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November 11, 1918

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Armistice is signed, ending the fighting on the western front

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1919

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Versailles peace conference

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1898

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Omdurman,
•Britain’s white mans burden
•industrial imperialism

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1898

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The Fabian socialists campaign, and form the basis of the modern labor party in England

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1899-1902

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Boer war in South Africa between Dutch settlers and British army

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1903

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Emmaline Pankhurst challenges the Victorian era’s cult of domesticity through a suffragette campaign.

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1904-05

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Russo-Japanese war

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1905

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“Bloody Sunday”
First Russian Revolution in response to their defeat by the Japanese

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1912 and 1913

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Balkan’s wars show instability in the region

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February 1917

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Czar is overthrown and replaced by a provisional government

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November 1917

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Provisional government under Kerensky toppled by Lenin and Trotsky

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1917-21

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Civil war between the reds and whites in Russia

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11/11/1918, 11:00

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Armistice ending hostilities is signed in a train car

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January 1919

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Spartacus revolt of German communities, led by Karl Liebknchet and Rosa Luxembourg brutally crushed

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1922-28

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New economic policy launched by Lenin in Soviet Union

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1922

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Mussolini and his black shirts seize control of Italian government

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1923

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Occupation of the industrial Ruhr valley by French and Belgian troops in an attempt to gain German reparations

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1924
Lenin dies, beginning a Russian power struggle where Stalin wins over Trotsky
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1928
First 5 year plan for heavy industry launched by Stalin in the USSR
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1929-30
Great Depression hits Europe
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1933
Hitler appointed chancellor by the aging Hindenburg in Germany
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1935
Mussolini ordered invasion of Ethiopia
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1936
Lean Blum, a socialist, leads the popular front in France
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1936-39
Spanish civil war
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March 1938
Anschluss Germany occupied Russia
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September 1938
Munich conference demonstrates British and French appeasement policy
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November 9, 1938
Kristallnacht
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November 9, Germany
Destiny day
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August, 1939
Nazi/soviet pact between Hitler and Stalin is negotiated to establish how the dictators will divide Poland
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September 1, 1939
WW2 begins with the invasion of Poland using blitzkrieg or lightning war tactics
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1940
Norway, holland, Belgium, and even France are crushed. Britain stands alone against the mighty Germany Churchill makes his famous “we shall never surrender” speech, and Britain’s gives Germany their first major setback
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1942
The “final solution” of the Jewish question reached by nazi leaders at the gross Wannsee conference
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June 22, 1941
Operation Barbarossa launched Nazis invade Russia and quickly penetrate deep into the Russian heartland
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December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor brings American into the war, although FDR had already been helping the British and Russians
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1942-43
The tide of the war turns and the allies go on the offensive
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May 8, 1945
V-E day
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Mid 1945
Conservative prime minister Churchill defeated by labor party clement attlee who begins to demand for creation of welfare state
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1946
George Kennan writes a 10,000 word memo outlining containment policy and Churchill makes his iron curtain speech
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1947
Truman doctrine
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1947-48
Marshall plan
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1948
Berlin airlift leads to the creation of NATO and demonstrates containment policy and hatred of appeasement policy of the 1930s
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1947
India gained independence from Britain process of decolonization beings
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1950s and 1960s
European economic miracle in capitalistic Western Europe
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1954
Vietnamese rebels defeat the French at the battle of dien bien phu
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1955
Warsaw pact established to oppose NATO
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1956
Imre Nagy, formerly labeled a tiatist, leads a movement in Hungary to become more independent from Moscow
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1957
Treaty of rome established the European Union or European economic community
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1958
Algerian crisis causes the French 4th republic to crumble
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1961
Berlin Wall is erected
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1962
Cuban missile crisis
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1968
Prague spring crushed by Russian tanks under the order of Leonid Brezhnev and the Brezhnev doctrine
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1979
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan being de’tente and bringing the U.S. boycott of the summer Olympics
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1979
Conservative Party leader Margaret thatcher elected prime minister of Britain and begins a conservative revolution, against welfare state and nationalization of industry.
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1979
Solidarity movement under Lech Wales’s launched Within 10 years, the pope and proletariat had overthrown Stalinism in Poland
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1979-89
Soviet disastrous invasion of Afghanistan causes Muslim community to launch a jihad against “godless” usurper
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1985
Gorbachev elected premier of the Soviet Union and begins his policies of openness (glasnot) and perestroika (restructuring of industry, law, and government)
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1988-89
Velvet revolutions lead to the overthrow of communist government in Eastern Europe
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November 1989
Berlin Wall toppled
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1990
Germany reunified
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1991
Fall of the Soviet Union
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1994-95
Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia
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1990s
Russians fight against the former Islamic republic of Azerbaijan resulting in a nasty war
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1990s
Former Soviet bloc countries begin to apply for membership in the EU and NATO
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1990s
Eastern European states struggle to convert to free market capitalism and democracy.
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September 11, 2001
Terrorists combined with weapons of mass destruction become the new scourge of the twenty-first century
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2008-2009
Great Recession
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2009-2024
Rise of right wing populist authoritarianism who oppose immigration, globalization, and want a return to “traditional values”
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1789-1848
Romantic era
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1815
Forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the congress of Vienna
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1815-1914
The “long peace” in Europe following the napoleonic wars, up to the outbreak of WW1
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1776-1830
Era of democratic revolutions sweep across the new world and western “liberal” Europe.
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1815-1848
The age of Metternich, reactionary repression
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1819
Peterloo massacre in Britain and repressive Carlsbad decrees in Germany
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19th century
Post napoleonic era: Industrial Revolution
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1815-1846
Corn laws in effect
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1832
Great reform bill in Britain
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1838-1848
Chartists call for universal suffrage in England
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1798-1848
Parson malthus’ “essay on population” and David Ricardo’s “iron law of wages” rule the day as the Manchester school of economics dominates the “dismal science”
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1846
Repeal of corn laws in England
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1848
Revolution sweeps across europe and failure of liberal nationalism
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1848
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their communist manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and dialectical materialism
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1890s
Fabian socialist and evolutionary socialist parties grow.

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