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476
Fall of the Roman Empire
The Visigoths broke down the walls of Rome and came and destroyed the Roman Empire. They burned and looted and left destruction wherever they went. The terror lasted for three days.
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Period: 476 to 1450
The Middle Ages
The middle ages is the dark time period between The Fall of the Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance, some europeans refer to it as the dark ages. The middle ages consisted of the Black Death, which wiped out most of Europe's population. The Catholic Church became the most powerful institution in the time period.
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1095
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims. The reason the wars were breaking out were due to that both religions wanted to protect holy sites that are considered sacred to each religions.
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1517
Protestant Reformation
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Age of Enlightment
The Age of Enlightenment was when European philosophers questioned some of the laws and realized that they could make inventions to change the history of Europe. They started making advancements in technology, war & revolution, politics, science, and inventions. The Enlightenment ideals were the peak of the French and American Revolution.
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The Industrial Revolution
In this time period agricultural society became more industrialized and modern. It's when Eli Whitney created the cotton gin, railroads, electricity, and other inventions that forever changed their history. Child Labor in the industrial Revolution was taken to a whole other level and caused children to die and very young ages. Living conditions were also very poor and most families struggled to take care of their families.
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French Revolution
French citizens went against the rules and decided to redesign their countries political landscape. All of this was caused by widespread disagreement with their french monarchy. They executed King Louis XVI at the guillotine, along with his wife Marie Antoinette. Although the people failed to achieve all of their goals, the bloodbaths caused during the Revolution will forever go down in history books.
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World War 1
World War 1 began in 1914, the central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire and the allied powers Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States. Since their was new technology the war became even worse and turned into a bloodbath. The Allied Powers won in 1918 after their were 16 million deaths.
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World War 2
Germany was unstable and Adolf Hitler, and his National Socialist views, stepped up to power. Hitler invaded Poland in September of 1939, and that caused Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. Over the course of six years, world war 2 destroyed land and property all around the globe and killed 45-60 million people.
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Cold War
The Soviet Union and the U.S. fought on the same side, however they had a tense relationship. America didn't like the Soviet’s communism and Stalin’s beliefs. The Soviets did not like the fact America didn’t treat the USSR as apart of the community, which resulted in a lot of deaths in Russia. After the war, tensions rose when the Soviet Union expanded into Eastern Europe, and the USSR came to represent Americas officials
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NATO/ Warsaw Pact
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization and it was a military alliance between Europe and North America and served as a counter balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw Pact is a military alliance of communist nations in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961 the communist party of Germany built a concrete wall with barbed wire to divide East and West berlin. The goal of the wall was to keep western fascists out of the East. The wall stood until November 9, 1989 when the head of the East Germany Communist Party announced that citizens could cross the border whenever they pleased.
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Soviet hammer lowered their flag for the very last time on December 25, 1991 and was replaced by the Russian tricolor. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union president, resigned from his position earlier that day. That meant Boris Yeltsin took over his position and became president of the newly independent Russian state.
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Creation of the European Union
The European Union was created to make unity between Germany and France, which layed out the foundation of the European Union for four decades later. They were officially created in 1951 and 1958 by Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands.
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/what-is-the-eu-why-was-it-formed-and-when-was-it-created/ )
