World History Timeline Cycle 1 & 2 Review

1500s-1800s Atlantic Trade Slaves traveled on the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas in exchange for manufactured goods (from Europe) and raw materials (from Americas and Africa)

1600s Indian Ocean TradeEuropeans take over and make their own Indian Ocean Trade routes to get ivory, gold, spices, silk and more!

1600-1700s Enlightenment European philosophers begin to question the rights of humans and their governments.

1700s Agricultural Revolution Better farming → MORE food → MORE People → More WORKERS

1800s Industrial Revolution in Britain

Transition from cottage industries to factories in Great Britain

1800s URBANIZATION People move from the countryside (farms) to the city to work in factories in Great Britain

1853- Japan opens trade

Japanese opens ports to Commodore Matthew Perry

1839-1860 Opium WarsBritish and Chinese fight over trade in China

1899 Open Door PolicyChina opens trade in exchange for U.S.’ protection

1884 Berlin Conference European countries determine rules for colonizing Africa

1881-1914 Scramble for Africa Europeans colonize Africa! White Man’s Burden to teach Africans to be “civilized”

1850-1871 German Unification Otto von Bismarck unified Germany as one country country

1871-1914 Second Industrial Revolution in GermanyA unified Germany leads the second industrial revolution, gearing up for war

1914-1918 World War IWorld War I is fought in Europe in between France & Germany

1919 Treaty of Versailles Treaty of Versailles is signed officially ending WWI, severely limits Germany’s power

1914-1920s Overproduction Farmers overproduced crops starting during WWI

1920-1929 Roaring Twenties! A time of big spending on cars and radios with credit. #lifeofluxury

1929- Stock Market Crashes Germany’s economic crisis due to ToV leads to investors pulling money from Europe and investing in U.S. Stock Market

Investors are buying shares of stock with CREDIT

1929-1939 Great Depression Record high unemployment rate and poverty around the world

1868- 1940s Japan ImperializesJapan is getting raw materials for its growing empire and industrialized country!

1939 WWII begins Hitler invades Poland, violating the ToV, starts WWII

December 1941 U.S. joins WWIJapanese bomb Pearl Harbor, U.S. joins the war

April 1945 WWII Ends in Europe

War ends in Europe with Germany’s surrender (Hitler’s death)

August 1945 Atomic bombs dropped

U.S. drops to atomic bombs on Japanese cities Nagasaki & Hiroshima

1947 Cold War Begins

1948-1949 Berlin AirliftSoviet blockade in Berlin keeping needed materials and supplies from East Berlin to get back at the Western powers for unifying their 3 zones of Germany. Allies respond by flying and dropping supplies for 11 months.

1950-1953 Korean War North and South Korea fight to determine communism or capitalism will be the country’s economic system with the support of U.S. and Soviet Union. Ends in a truce with 38th parallel dividing North and South Korea

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet Union has missiles in communist, Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S.

Ends peacefully without conflict and missiles removed

1954-1975 Vietnam War Like the Korean War, Vietnam is fighting over capitalist or communist rule with support of U.S. and Soviet Union. Containment fails and Vietnam becomes communist

1961 Soviet Union Space Race

Yuri Gagarin first astronaut in space

1969 U.S. Space RaceApollo 11 lands man on moon

1991 Cold War ENDS