DWC 201 Final

Lord McCartney visits China and requests more open ports to trade tea

1793

First Opium War

1839-1842

Treaty of Nanjing (first unequal treaty for China)

1842

Self-Strengthening for China (Diplomacy, Education, Enterprise, Military)

1860-1894

Matthew Perry visits Japan and asks for good treatment of sailors

1853

Treaty of Kanagawa (unequal treaty, ends 250 years of isolation)

1854

Meiji Restoration (modernization, return to imperial)

1868

Meiji Constitution

1889

Sino-Japanese War (China loses)

1894

Treaty of Shimonoseki

1895

Boxers’ Rebellion

1899-1901

Franco-Prussian War

1870-1871

Crowing of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Birth of Germany

1871

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

June 1914

USA Women’s suffrage

1920

UK Women’s Suffrage

1918, 1928

Sinking of RMS Lusitania

1915

Zimmerman Telegram

1917

Russo-Japanese War

1905

February Revolution (Strike: Land, Peace, Bread)

1917

October Revolution (Soviet Regime established)

1917

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ends Russian participation in WWI)

1918

Russian Civil War

1917-1920

USSR

1922-1991

Armistice (End of WWI)

11/11/1918

Japanese takeover of Manchuria

1931

Marco Polo Bridge Incident (WWII starts in Asia)

July 1937

Rape of Nanjing

1937

Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

June 1942

Battle of Midway

Iwo Jima

1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 1945

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

1979

Chernobyl

1986

Russian Independence

1991

End of USSR

December 1991

Occupation of Tiananmen Square begins

April 1989

Gorbachev visits China

May 1989

Tiananmen Square Massacre

June 4, 1989

Fall of Communism in Poland

June 1989

End of Soviet Occupation in Hungary

1991

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

German Unification

1990

Prague Spring

1968

Warsaw Pact Invasion

1968

Fall of communism in Czechoslovakia

1989

Fall of Ceausescu and Communism in Romania

1989

Lift of Iron Curtain

1989