1750-2000 Flashcards by Alexa Elias

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1789

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French Revolution begins

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1804

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Haitian Independence

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1807

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British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

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1820s

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Independence in Latin America

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1839

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1st Opium War in China

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1839-1878

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Tanzimat Reforms

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1853

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Commodore Perry opens Japan

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1857

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Sepoy Mutiny

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1861

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Russian frees serfs / ends serfdom

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1861-1870

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Italian Unification

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1869

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Suez Canal Opens

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1871

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German Unification

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1885

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Berlin Conference

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1888

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Brazil ends slavery (last in Americas)

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1896

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Ethiopians defeat Italians at the Battle of Adowa

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1898

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Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)

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1899-1902

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Boer War (British in control of South Africa)

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1910-1920

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Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown, 1910)

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1911

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Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

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1914-1918

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World War 1

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1917

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Russian Revolution

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1919

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Treaty of Versailles

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1929

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New York Stock Market crash

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1939

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German blitzkrieg in Poland (beginning of WW2)

1941

Pearl Harbor (US entry into WW2)

1945

End of WW2 (Japan surrenders)

1947

Truman Doctrine

1947

Independence and partition of India

1948

Birth of Israel

1949

NATO founded

1949

Chinese communist revolution

1950-1953

Korean War

1956

Suez Canal crisis

1959

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1961-1989

Berlin Wall

1979

Iranian Revolution (Ayatollah Khomeini)

1991

Persian Gulf War and USSR disbands

1994

NAFTA forms