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1
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17th century

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Textile Industrial Revolution in England

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2
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Post 1850

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2nd Industrial Revolution or steel Industrial Revolution

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3
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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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4
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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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5
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August 1914

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WW1 begins

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6
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1915

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Italy and Ottomans enter the fray

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7
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1917

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Americans enter war

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8
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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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9
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1919

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Versailles peace conference

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10
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1898

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

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11
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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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12
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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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13
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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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14
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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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16
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1912 and 1913

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Balkan’s wars show instability in the region

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17
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February 1917

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Czar is overthrown and replaced by a provisional government

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18
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November 1917

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Provisional government under Kerensky toppled by Lenin and Trotsky

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19
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1917-21

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Civil war between the reds and whites in Russia

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20
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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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21
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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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22
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1922-28

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New economic policy launched by Lenin in Soviet Union

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23
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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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25
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1924

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Lenin dies, beginning a Russian power struggle where Stalin wins over Trotsky

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26
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1928

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First 5 year plan for heavy industry launched by Stalin in the USSR

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27
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1929-30

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Great Depression hits Europe

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28
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1933

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Hitler appointed chancellor by the aging Hindenburg in Germany

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29
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1935

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Mussolini ordered invasion of Ethiopia

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30
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1936

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Lean Blum, a socialist, leads the popular front in France

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31
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1936-39

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Spanish civil war

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32
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March 1938

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Anschluss
Germany occupied Russia

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33
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September 1938

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Munich conference demonstrates British and French appeasement policy

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34
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November 9, 1938

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Kristallnacht

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35
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November 9, Germany

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Destiny day

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36
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August, 1939

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Nazi/soviet pact between Hitler and Stalin is negotiated to establish how the dictators will divide Poland

37
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September 1, 1939

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WW2 begins with the invasion of Poland using blitzkrieg or lightning war tactics

38
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1940

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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

39
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1942

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The “final solution” of the Jewish question reached by nazi leaders at the gross Wannsee conference

40
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June 22, 1941

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Operation Barbarossa launched

Nazis invade Russia and quickly penetrate deep into the Russian heartland

41
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December 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor brings American into the war, although FDR had already been helping the British and Russians

42
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1942-43

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The tide of the war turns and the allies go on the offensive

43
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May 8, 1945

44
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Mid 1945

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Conservative prime minister Churchill defeated by labor party clement attlee who begins to demand for creation of welfare state

45
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1946

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George Kennan writes a 10,000 word memo outlining containment policy and Churchill makes his iron curtain speech

46
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1947

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Truman doctrine

47
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1947-48

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Marshall plan

48
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1948

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Berlin airlift leads to the creation of NATO and demonstrates containment policy and hatred of appeasement policy of the 1930s

49
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1947

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India gained independence from Britain

process of decolonization beings

50
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1950s and 1960s

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European economic miracle in capitalistic Western Europe

51
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1954

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Vietnamese rebels defeat the French at the battle of dien bien phu

52
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1955

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Warsaw pact established to oppose NATO

53
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1956

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Imre Nagy, formerly labeled a tiatist, leads a movement in Hungary to become more independent from Moscow

54
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1957

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Treaty of rome established the European Union or European economic community

55
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1958

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Algerian crisis causes the French 4th republic to crumble

56
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1961

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Berlin Wall is erected

57
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1962

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Cuban missile crisis

58
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1968

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Prague spring crushed by Russian tanks under the order of Leonid Brezhnev and the Brezhnev doctrine

59
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1979

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Soviet Union invades Afghanistan being de’tente and bringing the U.S. boycott of the summer Olympics

60
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1979

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Conservative Party leader Margaret thatcher elected prime minister of Britain and begins a conservative revolution, against welfare state and nationalization of industry.

61
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1979

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Solidarity movement under Lech Wales’s launched

Within 10 years, the pope and proletariat had overthrown Stalinism in Poland

62
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1979-89

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Soviet disastrous invasion of Afghanistan causes Muslim community to launch a jihad against “godless” usurper

63
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1985

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Gorbachev elected premier of the Soviet Union and begins his policies of openness (glasnot) and perestroika (restructuring of industry, law, and government)

64
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1988-89

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Velvet revolutions lead to the overthrow of communist government in Eastern Europe

65
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November 1989

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Berlin Wall toppled

66
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1990

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Germany reunified

67
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1991

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Fall of the Soviet Union

68
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1994-95

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Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia

69
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1990s

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Russians fight against the former Islamic republic of Azerbaijan resulting in a nasty war

70
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1990s

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Former Soviet bloc countries begin to apply for membership in the EU and NATO

71
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1990s

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

72
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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

73
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2008-2009

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Great Recession

74
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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”

75
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1789-1848

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Romantic era

76
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1815

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Forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the congress of Vienna

77
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1815-1914

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The “long peace” in Europe following the napoleonic wars, up to the outbreak of WW1

78
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1776-1830

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Era of democratic revolutions sweep across the new world and western “liberal” Europe.

79
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1815-1848

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The age of Metternich, reactionary repression

80
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1819

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Peterloo massacre in Britain and repressive Carlsbad decrees in Germany

81
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19th century

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Post napoleonic era: Industrial Revolution

82
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1815-1846

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Corn laws in effect

83
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1832

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Great reform bill in Britain

84
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1838-1848

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Chartists call for universal suffrage in England

85
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1798-1848

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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”

86
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1846

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Repeal of corn laws in England

87
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1848

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Revolution sweeps across europe and failure of liberal nationalism

88
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1848

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their communist manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and dialectical materialism

89
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1890s

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Fabian socialist and evolutionary socialist parties grow.

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