Flashcards: AP Timeline Pt 2
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ben_mcnaboe on September 8, 2008
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1815 | Congress of Vienna followed the defeat of Napoleon |
| 1750-1850 | Industrial Revolution began in England |
| 1848 | Karl Marx argued for socialism as revolutions swept France |
| 1861 | Czar Alexander II freed the Russian serfs |
| 1860's | Nationalism: Italy and Germany unified into modern nations |
| 1870-1914 | British Empire dominated the age of imperialism |
| 1905 | Czar Nicholas II forced to set up the Duma |
| 1914-1918 | World War I: the old monarchies swept away |
| 1917 | Russian Revolution won by Lenin's Bolsheviks |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles ended WWI and helped cause WWII |
| 1930's | Great Depression weakened democracies and promoted dictators |
| 1939-1945 | WWII destroyed Europe and let Russia expand |
| 1946-1990 | Cold War: US and Russia struggled to dominate world power |
| 1968 | Prague Spring: Czech effort to throw off communism crused |
| 1989 | Solidarity Movement in Poland overthrew communism |
| 1992 | Maastricht Treaty created European Union |