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30 Cards in this Set
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621 |
Islam began in Mecca |
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711 |
Moors (Muslims) reached Spain via Morocco |
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1066 |
Battle of Hastings |
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1492 |
"Columbus sailed the ocean blue." -Moors defeated by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
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1588 |
Spanish armada defeated by the English, leading to England becoming the hegemonic power. |
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1607 |
English settlement at Jamestown, VA |
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1619 |
First slaves arrived in Virginia |
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1620 |
Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, MA |
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1776 |
American colonists declared independence from Britain |
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1789 |
French revolution (first mention of terrorism from the Reign of Terror) |
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1803 |
Louisiana purchase from Napoleon |
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1830s |
Cyrus McCormack invented reaper, trains made transportation and communication easier and Samuel Morse invented the telegraph |
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1860s |
Civil war (1861-1865) Lincoln was 16th president of the US; industrial revolution |
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1869 |
Transcontinental Railroad finished (golden spike-promontory, Utah); Suez Canal formally owned to traffic, |
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1896 |
Plessy v. Ferguson- Supreme Court ruling of separate but Raul declared |
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1898 |
Spanish-American war was fought in 3 months. America won and acquired the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Guam |
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1914-1918 |
The great war |
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1917 |
Bolshevik revolution led by lenin to overthrow the Romanov dynasty. Beginning of communism that lasted until 1991 |
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1920 |
Women in America received suffrage |
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1929 |
October-called black Tuesday- stock market cash started worldwide depression |
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1939-1945 |
World War II |
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1949 |
Founding of the peoples republic of China-communism prevailed |
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1950-1953 |
Korean war |
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1954 |
Brown v. Board of education Supreme Court ruling that shot down plessy v Ferguson ruling of separate but equal. Began integration in the US |
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1960s |
Vietnam War, civil rights in US |
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1989 |
November 9, Berlin wall fell |
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1991 |
USSR fell; desert storm |
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2001 |
September 11- US declared war on terrorism |
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2003 |
US invaded Iraq |
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2008 |
Unprecedented event-half of the world's population lives in an urban setting |
