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57 Cards in this Set
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1453 |
Constantinople is taken by Ottoman Turks |
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14th Century - 1527 |
Roughly the Renaissance |
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1492 in Spain |
Expulsion of Jews and Muslims |
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1492 International |
Columbus sails the Ocean blue |
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1513 |
The Prince by Machiavelli |
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1517 |
Luther posts 95 thesis |
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1524 |
German peasants revolt |
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1546-1563 |
Council of Trent |
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1555 |
Peace of Augsburg |
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1517-1648 |
Era of religious wars |
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1588 |
Spanish Armada is defeated |
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1598 |
Edict of Nantes |
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1450-1650 |
Commercial Revolution |
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1648 |
Peace of Westphalia |
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1661-1715 |
Reign of Louis XIV "Sun King" |
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1688-89 |
Glorious revolution |
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1698-1725 |
Peter the great starts Westernization of Russia |
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1701-1713 |
Wars of Spanish Succession |
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1689-1789 |
Era of Enlightenment |
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July 14, 1789 |
B🔺stille Day |
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1790 |
Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
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1789-1815 |
French Revolution |
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1815-1848 |
Age of Metternich |
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1815-1914 |
Long peace |
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1819 |
Peterloo Massacre and Carlsbad decrees |
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1832 |
Great Reform Bill |
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1846 |
Corn Laws Repealed |
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1848 |
Economic revolutions across Europe |
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1789-1848 |
Romantic Era |
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January 18, 1871 |
Germany is Unified |
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1894 |
Dreyfus Affair |
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1914 |
WW1 |
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November 11, 1918 |
WW1 ends |
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1919 |
Paris Peace Conference |
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1917-1921 |
Russian Revolution |
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1928 |
Stalin's 5 year plans |
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1929-1930 |
Great Depression hits Europe |
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1933 |
Hitler is elected chancellor |
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1936-1939 |
Spanish civil war |
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November 9, 1938 |
Kristallnacht - Jews are prosecuted in Germany |
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August 1939 |
Nazi-Soviet pact |
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September 1939 |
WW2 starts with the invasion of Poland |
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1942 |
The Final Solution is implemented in Germany |
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May 8, 1945 |
Victory day in Europe |
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June 6, 1944 |
D Day |
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September 2, 1945 |
Victory over Japan |
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1947-1948 |
The Cold War |
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1989 |
Fall of the Berlin Wall |
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1450-1789 |
Old Regime |
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1789-Present |
Late Modern Era |
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1915-1925 |
Armenian Genocide |
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20th Century |
The Genocidal century |
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December 7, 1941 |
Pearl Harbor |
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1946 |
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech |
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1956 |
Hungarian nationalistic revolution |
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1968 |
Czech republic revolution |
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1985-1991 |
Gorbachev |