Second Half! 🤝✨ Flashcards

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1820, 1 January

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Riego Uprising. Military start imposing the Liberal Regime. Colonel Rafael de Riego against the absolutist rule of Ferdinand VII.

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1830 26-29 July

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New French Revolution. Definitive abolition of the Absolutist Monarchy in France (Monarchie de Juillet).

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1848, 21 January

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Publication in London of the Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) + Liberal and social revolutions burst all over Europe.

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1861, 17 March

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Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy

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1862, 23 September

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Bismarck at the head of the Prussian government.

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1870, 1/2 September

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French defeat at Sedan. End of the Franco- Prussian War

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1871, 18 January

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Proclamation in Versailles of the German Empire (2nd Reich).

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1871, 18 March-28 May

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French Commune

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1884

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Beginning of the Berlin Conference regulating the European colonisation in Africa. Height of European Colonial Imperialism.

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1914, 28 June

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Assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian ‘Throne

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1914, 28 July

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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Beginning of World War I.

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1916, 3d January

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Sykes Picot Agreements. Europeans decide the partition of the Ottoman Empire

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1917, 7 November

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Russian “October” Revolution

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1918, 11 November

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Signature of the Armistice between the Axis and the Allies. End of WWI

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1920

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First meeting of the League of Nations

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1924, 21 January

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Death of Lenin

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1929, 11 February

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Lateran Treaty. Creation of the Vatican State (Mussolini).

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1929, 5 sept

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Briand’s Proposal for a European Union

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1929, October

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Wall Street Crash

20
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1933, 30 January

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Adolph Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany.

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1933, 23 March

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Enabling Act (passed to enact new laws without the consent of the German Parliament).

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1936, July

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Beginning of the Spanish Civil War (until 1s April 1939).

23
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1936, August

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Beginning of the Moscow Trials. Stalin gets rid of all soviet revolutionaries.

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1939, 1 September

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Germany invades Poland. Beginning of World War II.

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1943, 3 February

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German troops surrender in Stalingrad.

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1945, 8 May

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Germany signs unconditional surrender. End of World War II

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1948, 3 April

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US President Harry ‘Truman signs the Economic Recovery Act better known as the Marshall Plan (Proposed in 1947).

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1948, 7-11 May

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Congress of the Hague (Project of European Federal Integration)

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1948, 24 june

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Beginning of the Berlin Blockade ordered by Stalin (ends 12 May 1949)

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1949, 4 April

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Foundation of NATO.

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1949, 18 April

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Ireland becomes a Republic.

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1949, 5 May

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Treaty of London. Creation of the Council of Europe

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1949, 23 May

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Approval of the Basic Law for the German Federal Republic. (Deutsche
Bundesrepublik, DBR. After 1968: BRD: Bundesrepublik Deutschland)

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1949, 7 October

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Creation of the German Democratic Republic. (Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR)

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1950, 9 May

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R. Schuman as France’s Foreign Minister makes what was going to be known as the Schuman Declaration (Community Method) process gets underway.

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1951, 18 April

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Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Paris, which constitutes the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), entering into force on 23 July 1952.

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1952, 27 May

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Signing of the European Defense Community (EDC) Treaty. Ratification rejected by the French National Assembly.

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1953, 5 March

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Death of Stalin

39
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1956, 29 October - 7 November

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Suez Crisis. The end of European colonialism (France and the UK). The US and USSR decide the world order.

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1957, 25 March.

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The six sign the Treaties of Rome, which constitutes the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).

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1960, 4 January

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Creation of the EFTA, an initiative of the UK.