"Top 20" Important Dates (Exam #1)

Question 1

1750

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution begins

Question 2

1800

Answer 2

~ First socialists (utopian socialists) emerged

Question 3

1848

Answer 3

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto

Question 4

1881

Answer 4

Robert Koch discovers germ theory

Question 5

1866 June 15

Answer 5

Austro-Prussian War [aftermath led to 1st step of German unification]

Question 6

1867

Answer 6

North German Confederation created [1st step for German unification]

Question 7

1869

Answer 7

Count Ferdinand de Lesseps completes Suez Canal [more opportunities for trade and imperialism]

Question 8

1870 July 15

Answer 8

Franco-Prussian War begins {1870-1871} [2nd step for German unification]

Question 9

1884

Answer 9

Hiram Maxim invents maxim gun [greater death tolls in future wars, helped imperialism]

Question 10

1905

Answer 10

Development of Schlieffen Plan begins [launched 1918 when WWI began, but failed]

Question 11

1908

Answer 11

Leopold’s worst activities end in the Congo region (after 25 years)

Question 12

1913 Jan. 18

Answer 12

Woodrow Wilson announces 14 Points [rise of US global power]

Question 13

1914 June 28

Answer 13

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [triggered WWI]

Question 14

1914 Aug. 4

Answer 14

WWI begins {1914-1918 Nov. 11}

Question 15

1917 Mar. 12

Answer 15

Russian monarchy ends [1st event of Bolshevik Revolution]

Question 16

1917 Nov. 6

Answer 16

Leon Trotsky (St. Petersburg Soviet) took over Russian gov’t [2nd event of Bolshevik Revolution]

Question 17

1918

Answer 17

William II ends German monarchy, Germany becomes a republic [end of WWI]

Question 18

1919 Jan.

Answer 18

Peace of Paris [created tensions, setting up WWII]

Question 19

1922 Nov.

Answer 19

Soviet Union officially created

Question 20

1929

Answer 20

Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan {1929-1932} [ends early due to success]

Question 21

1939 Sept. 1

Answer 21

WWII begins {1939-1945 Sept. 2}