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14th Century-1527

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roughly the Italian Renaissance

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1453

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Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks

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1492 (both)

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Columbus sails the ocean blue, no more muslim no more jew (reconquista)

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1513

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Machiavelli publishes The Prince

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1521—1648

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Era of Religious Wars

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1517

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Luther posts his Ninety-Five Theses

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1527

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Sack of Rome

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1529

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The Ottoman Turks lay siege to Vienna

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1545-63

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Council of Trent meets to decide how to reform the Catholic Church

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1517-1648

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Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation

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1555

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Peace of Augsburg ends the civil wars in Germany

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1588

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The Spanish Armada Fails in Its Crusade Against Protestant Elizabethan England

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1567

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Dutch Wars of Independence and Religion against Philip II

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1562—1598

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The French Civil Wars of Religion and Politics

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1598

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Edict of Nantes

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1598

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Philip II of Spain dies

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1639-1646

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English Civil War round I erupts

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1688, 1689

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Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights

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1651

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Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan

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1618

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Defenestration of Prague Begins Round Two of Religious and Civil War in HRE

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1688

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John Locke publishes his Second Treatise on Government

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1648

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Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War

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1661-1715

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Louis XIV assumes personal direction of his affairs and begins his reign as the “Sun King”

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1642

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Galileo dies and Newton is born indicating the growing and evolving Scientific Revolution

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1683

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Ottoman Turks laid siege to Vienna

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23
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1450-1650 and beyond

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The Commercial Revolution

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24
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1689-1789

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The Era of Enlightenment or Age of Reason

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25
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1689

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English Bill of Rights

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26
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1701-1713

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Wars of Spanish Succession

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26
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1776

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Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations

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1713

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Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession

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1740

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Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria begin German dualisms duel

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1698-1725

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Peter the Great Begins Westernization of Russia

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30
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1756-63

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The Seven Years War

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31
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18th century

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Rococo Art and Mozart

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32
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1780-1790

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Reign of Josef II of Austria

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33
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May 5, 1789

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The Estates General are summoned by Louis XVI

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34
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June 20-27

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The Tennis Court Oath

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35
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July 14, 1789

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Storming of the Bastille

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36
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August 4, 1789

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Abolition of feudal privileges by National Constituent Assembly

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37
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1791-92

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Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft publish treatises calling for women’s equality

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1790 (2)

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“Father of Modern Conservatism”, the Brit Edmund Burke predicts violent future of French Revolution

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38
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1790 (1)

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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39
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1789-1791

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Moderate stage of revolution dominated by those members of Third Estate originally summoned to the Estates General

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39
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1793-94

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Radical Phase of the French Revolution

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40
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1799

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Napoleon’s coup d’etat overthrows corrupt Directory

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41
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1793-94

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Radical Revolution eventually led by the Jacobin Party leader Robespierre

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1804

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England dominates the High Seas for a Century

43
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1812

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Napoleon makes the fateful decision to invade Russia

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1815-1914

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the “Long Peace” in Europe

44
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1789-1848

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Romantic Era

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1815

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Congress of Vienna

46
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1776-1830

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Era of Democratic Revolutions Sweep Across the New World and Western “Liberal” Europe

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1815-1848

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The Age of Metternich

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1819

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Peterloo Massacre

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1815-1846

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Corn Laws In Effect

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19th Century

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Industrial Revolution

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1832

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Great Reform Bill in Britain

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1838-1848

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Chartists in England call for universal suffrage

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1798–1848

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David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages”

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1846

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Repeal of Corn Laws in England

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1848 (1)

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Revolution sweeps across Europe and Failure of liberal nationalism

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1848 (2)

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto

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1890’s

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Fabian Socialist and Evolutionary Socialists Parties grow

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July 1914

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July diplomatic crisis; blank check, ultimatum, Russian mobilization, Schlieffen Plan, Belgian neutrality

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June 28, 1914

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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzigovina, Austrian-Hungarian Empire

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August 1914

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WWI begins

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1917

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American enters war

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1915

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Italy and Ottomans enter the fray

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November 11, 1918

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armistice is signed ended the fighting on the Western Front

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1905

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“Bloody Sunday”

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1919

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Versailles Peace Conference

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February 1917

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Czar is overthrown and replaced by a provisional government

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1917—1921

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Civil War between the Reds and Whites in Russia

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11:00 11/11/1918

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the armistice ending hostilities is signed in a train car

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1922-1928

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The New Economic Policy was launched by Lenin

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1924

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Lenin dies

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1929-1930

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Great Depression hits Europe

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1928

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First 5 Year Plan for heavy industry was launched by Stalin in the USSR

68
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1933

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Hitler is appointed Chancellor by the aging Hindenburg in Germany

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1935

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Mussolini ordered the invasion of Ethiopia

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1936-39

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Spanish Civil War

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1936

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Leon Blum, a socialist, leads the Popular Front in France

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March 1938

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Anschluss German occupied Austria

72
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September of 1938

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Munich Conference

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August of 1939

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Nazi/Soviet Pact

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November 9, 1938

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Kristallnacht

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November 9

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Destiny Day

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Sept. 1, 1939

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WWII begins

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1942

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The “Final Solution” of the Jewish Question Gross Wannsee conference

78
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1940

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Norway, Holland, Belgium, and even France are crushed

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June 22, 1941

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“Operation Barbarossa”

80
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May 8, 1945

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V-E Day

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Dec. 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor

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June 6, 1944

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D-Day

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1947

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Truman Doctrine

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1947-48

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Marshall Plan

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1948

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Berlin Airlift

85
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1946

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“Iron Curtain” speech

86
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1947

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India gained independence from Britain

87
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1956

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Khrushchev makes his six-hour long “secret speech”

88
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1956

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Imre Nagy leads a movement in Hungary to become more independent from Moscow

89
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1957

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Treaty of Rome

90
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1958

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The Algerian Crisis

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1962

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1961

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Berlin Wall is erected

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1979

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The Soviet invaded Afghanistan

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1968

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“Prague Spring” is crushed

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1979

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Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime Minister of Britain

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1979

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Solidarity Movement under Lech Walesa is launched

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1985

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Gorbachev is elected premier of the Soviet Union

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1988-89

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The Velvet Revolutions

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1991

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Fall of the Soviet Union

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1994-95

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Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia

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1990

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Germany reunified

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1990’s

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Eastern European states struggle to convert to free market capitalism and democracy

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September 11, 2001

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terrorists combined with weapons of mass destruction become the new scourge of the twenty-first century.

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2008-2009

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Great Recession

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2009-2024

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rise of right wing populist authoritarianism who oppose immigration, globalization, and want a return to “traditional values”