1869 |
Suez Canal completed |
1871 |
End of Franco-Prussian War: France badly defeated. |
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Prussian annexation of Alsace-Lorraine part of the creation of new German empire |
1873 |
Three Emperors’ League (Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary) |
1875 |
Russo-Turkish War |
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Britain gains control of Suez Canal |
1878 |
Treaty of San Stefano liberates Slavs from Ottoman control |
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Congress of Berlin establishes European rules for African Colonization |
1879 |
Dual Alliance (Germany and Austria) |
1880s |
Britain establishes protectorate over Egypt |
1881 |
Three Emperors’ League renewed (Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary) |
1882 |
Italy joins Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria |
1884-5 |
Germany establishes protectorate over Namibia (SW Africa), Togoland, Cameroons, Tanganyika (E Africa) |
1888 |
William II becomes German Emperor |
1890 |
Bismarck dismissed as German Chancellor |
1894 |
Franco-Russian Alliance |
1894-5 |
Sino-Japanese War |
1898 |
Germany begins building battleship navy |
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Spanish-American War: US acquires Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam, Hawai’i annexed, Cuba protectorate |
1899 |
US Proposes Open Door policy in China |
1899-1902 |
Boer War |
1902 |
Anglo-Japanese Alliance |
1904 |
Entente Cordial between Britain and France |
1904-5 |
Russo-Japanese War |
1905 |
First Moroccan Crisis |
1907 |
British agreement with Russia |
1908-9 |
Bosnian Crisis |
1911 |
second Moroccan crisis |
1911 |
Italy attacks Turkey |
1912-1913 |
First and Second Balkan Wars |
1914 |
August |
WWI breaks out. First Battle of the Marne |
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September |
Battle of Tannenberg. Battle of the Masurian Lakes |
1915 |
April |
British land at Gallipoli to begin Dardanelles campaign |
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May |
Germans sink British Lusitania |
1916 |
February |
Germans attack Verdun |
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May-June |
Battle of Jutland |
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November |
Re-election of Woodrow “He kept us out of war” Wilson as US President |
1917 |
February |
Germans declare unrestricted submarine warfare |
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March |
Russian Revolution |
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April |
US enters war |
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November |
Bolsheviks seize power in Russia |
1918 |
March |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
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German offensive in the West |
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November |
Armistice |
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