Modern History
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Contents |
[edit] Introduction
[edit] The engines of change
The abolition of slavery
The agricultural and industrial revolutions- Global commerce, competition and empire
- Trade unionism, socialism and marxism
[edit] 19th century
- Independence in the Americas
- Queen Victoria
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia:Taiping Rebellion
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Schrammel accordion
- American Civil War
- Franco-Prussian War - Wikipedia:Franco-Prussian War
- Opium Wars - Wikipedia
- Need chapters that include topics:
- the Suez canal
- Perry goes to Japan
- the settlement of Liberia and the decline of African slavery outside Africa
- the construction of Railroads
- First Sino-Japanese War
[edit] 20th century
- World at the Turn of the Century
- End of Imperial China
- Russo-Japanese War
First World War- Russian Revolution(Wikipedia)
- Rise of Fascism, Socialism and Communism
- Great Depression
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Spanish Civil War (Wikipedia)
- Greco-Turkish War(Wikipedia)
- Second World War
- J.R.R. Tolkien(Wikipedia)
- Partition of India
Beginning of the Cold War- The Cold War
- Cold War (notes)
- Decolonisation
- Korean War
- Space Exploration
- Sino-Soviet Split
- Earl Lincoln Poole
- Vietnam War
- War over Kashmir and Bangladesh
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- Fall of the Soviet Union
- Gulf War
- End of Apartheid
- Dawn of the Computer Age
- World at the end of the 20th Century
[edit] 21st Century
- World at the Turn of the Millenium
- Wikipedia
- East Timor
- Bush's Administration
Beaconsfield mine collapse
[edit] Major People
The major people in this time frame are:
- Queen Victoria
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Benito Mussolini
- Mao Zedong
- Adolf Hitler
- Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Deng Xiaoping
- George W. Bush
- The Human Race
[edit] Authors
- Kernigh
- Dr. C.J. (international relations articles-Cold War, First World War, American Civil War, Cuban Missle Crisis)
- Other and anonymous contributors
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