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Independence of the US
The 13 britain colonies that were in a war against Great Briatin agruped in a independent nation: the US. -
French revolution
It was a social and political conflict whith some periods of violence. There participated the peolpe thith the oposite ideas of the Ancien Régime. This movement extended in many parts of Europe. -
Napoleon empire
It was period in Napoleon Bonaparte was the emperor of France and unificated an extense territory called the First French Empire. His politics wanted to blok Great Britain. -
Fernando VII
He was the king of Spain in 1808 to 1833. He was forced to give the crown to Napoleon´s brother. He is considered the maximun exponent of absolutism in Spain. -
The war of independence
It was a conflict that confronted Spain, United kingdom and Portugal against the Napoleonic empire. It restaured the Bourbon trone (Ferdinand VII). -
Spanish- American independence
The Amercan coutries tha Spain had colonised wented to war to fight for their independence, this process lasted 20 years ( from1809 to 1829). -
The costitution of Cádiz
This was the first constitution created in Spain. It was one of the most liberals constitutions for that time. It established: The sovereignity of the nation, the constituctonal monarchy, the separation of powers and the universal manhood suffrage. -
Congress of vienna
It was a international meeteing to reestablish the frontiers in Europe. -
1820 revolution
Is the begining of the definitive fregmentetion of the absolutism in Europe. It was a nationalist movement that had whith base the creation of a liberal state without depending of a king. -
The liberar triennium
Is a period of three years in Spain. In that period there was a liebral government, it´s one of the 3 stages of the government of Ferdinand VII. -
Monroe doctrine
It is a foreign policy established by the United States that proclaims the non-intervention of European powers in Latin America. -
1830 revolution
It satrded in Paris and it was also denomiates the july revolution. It was a movement of the middle social cases against the king Carlos X and his type o government to fight for them rights. -
Isabella II
Isabella II was the older daughter of King Ferdinand VII and Queen Maria Christina. She became queen at the age of 13 after her father´s death. Maria Christina and Baldomero Espartero reined for her some time when she was younger. -
The opium wars
Opium wras were two conflicts between China and UK and France. In both of them de UK and France won and this led to consecuences in china shuch as giving Hong Kong to the UK for 150 years or having to grant extensive trade privileges to European powers. -
1848 revolution
It was also known as "spring of the kingdoms". Ther were several revolutions that deffended the liberalism ideas, the most important of them were in: Paris, Berlin, Budapest Vienna and Napoles. The movement debilited the absolut monarchies. -
italian unification
It was the process of union of the diffrerent nations that were in the italian peninsule. -
Alfonso XII
The son of Queen Elizabeth II and King Consort Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, with the beginning of his reign the First Republic ended and the period known as the Restoration began. -
American civil war
was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. -
Meiji restoration
Process of political, social and cultural transformation in Japan. It was possible to modernize and westernize Japan -
german unification
It took place in central Europe. It ended with the creation of the german empire because of the unification of some nations in that area. -
BISMARCKIAN ALLIANCES
System of international alliances that Otto von Bismarck sponsored after the Franco-Prussian War to isolate France and thus avoid its hypothetical revenge after the defeat of 1871. -
first republic
It was the political régime for aprox. 1 year, until The Bourbon monarchy was reestablished. -
The bourbon restoration
In Spain it was produced whith the proclamation of Alfonso XII. -
Boer war
were two armed conflicts that took place in South Africa between the British Empire and settlers of Dutch origin. -
BERLIN CONFERENCE
The conference contributed to ushering in a period of heightened colonial activity by European powers, once made the point that the Berlin Conference of 1884–85 was responsible for "the old carve-up of Africa". -
Berlin conference
concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. -
Alfonso XIII
Was king in Spain from his brith to the proclamation of the first spanish republic. During his period the liberal monarchy ended -
Fashoda incident
France and the United Kingdom decide to build communication lines to connect their respective African colonies continuously. The English goal was a north-south union and the French was west-east. -
Maroccan crises
Germany wanted to challenge France's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain. The crisis was resolved by the Algeciras Conference. -
balkan wars
Were a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states. -
First word war
Was a global conflict from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two coalitions: the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. One of the deadliest wars in history. -
February Revolution
Was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia. -
october revolution
Was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty . As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war. -
league of nations
Was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Ended the 1st world war. -
WALL STREET CRASH
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash or the Crash of '29, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. -
Franco dicatourship
also known as the Francoist dictatorship, was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy. During this time period, Spain was officially known as the Spanish State. -
second world war
World War II was a worldwide armed conflict that lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. It involved most countries in the world, including all the great powers that eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the shaft It was the most far-reaching war in history, directly involving more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries. -
Operartion barbarossa
was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis powers, which began on Sunday, June 22, 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union and repopulating it with Germans. -
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led the U.S. -
UNITED NATIONS
is an international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
Cold war
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. -
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a UN committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, it was accepted by the General Assembly as Resolution 217 during its third session on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France. -
Arab-Isaeli wars
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. -
Truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." The doctrine originated with the primary goal of countering the growth of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. -
Chinese revolution
The victory of the Chinese Communist Party in the final stage of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. -
Korean war
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an armistice on 27 July 1953. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea was supported by the United States and US-led United Nations (UN) forces. -
Bandung conference
Was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18–24 April 1955 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. -
Cuban missile crisis
was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.