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30 Cards in this Set
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711 |
Moors reached Spain via Morocco/North Africa |
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1066 |
Battle of Hastings - Normans invaded Britain from Normandy (France) |
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1492 |
Columbus sailed the ocean blue - Moors were defeated by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (Spain) |
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1588 |
British defeated the Spanish Armada (tipping point) |
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1607 |
Settlement at Jamestown, VA (Pocahontas) |
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1620 |
Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (MA) |
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1760's |
Industrial revolution begins in England |
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1776 |
America declares independence from British |
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1789 |
French Revolution |
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1803 |
Louisiana Purchase - Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon's France - doubled the size of US, world reached 1 billion people |
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1830's |
Cyrus McCormack invented reaper (for crop harvesting); trains made transportation simpler; Samuel Morse invented telegraph and communication became simpler |
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1860's |
Civil War; Lincoln was 16th president of the US; industrial revolution in US |
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1869 |
Transcontinental finished (golden spike driven in Promontory, Utah); Suez Canal formally opened to traffic connecting the Gulf of Suez and the Indian Ocean, 100 miles long |
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1896 |
Plessy v. Ferguson - US Supreme Court ruling stating that "separate but equal" facilities were permitted for segregation of races |
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1898 |
Spanish-American War fought in 3 months; US won and acquired the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam |
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1914-1918 |
The Great War (WWI) |
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1917 |
Bolshevik Revolution - led by Lenin to overthrow Romanov Dynasty; beginning of communist state that lasted until 1991 |
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1920 |
Women in the US received full suffrage |
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1929 |
October 29 - Black Tuesday - stock market crash started worldwide depression |
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1939-45 |
WWII |
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1948 |
Creation of Israel by UN |
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1949 |
Communist Revolution in China led by Mao Zedong |
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1950-53 |
Korean War |
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1954 |
Brown v. Board of Education - Supreme Court ruling that began integration in US and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson |
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1960's |
Civil rights movement in US; Vietnam War |
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1989 |
Fall of the Berlin Wall (November) |
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1991 |
USSR fell; Operation Desert Storm - US v. Iraq (Saddam Hussein) - 1st Persian Gulf War |
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2001 |
US declares War on Terror |
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2003 |
Overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq |
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2008 |
1/2 the world's population lives in cities |
