Modern History

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 The engines of change 3 19th century 4 20th century 5 21st Century 6 Major People 7 Authors

[edit] Introduction

• Front Cover
• Introduction
• World in 1783

[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

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Wikipedia has related information at Queen Victoria.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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:

1. Queen Victoria
2. Benjamin Disraeli
3. Benito Mussolini
4. Mao Zedong
5. Adolf Hitler
6. Deng Xiaoping
7. George W. Bush

[edit] Authors

1. Kernigh
2. Dr. C.J. (international relations articles-Cold War, First World War, American Civil War, Cuban Missle Crisis)
3. Other and anonymous contributors