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Pore Sheet 7
1871-1919
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1871 | German empire proclaimed at Versailles; Paris Commune; Bismarck's Kulterkampf |
| 1874 | Disraeli's second ministry begins |
| 1875 | German Social Democratic Party founded |
| 1877 | Russo-Turkish War |
| 1878 | Congress of Berlin; autonomy of Bulgaria; independence of Serbia; Dual Alliance of Austria-Hungary and Germany; first of Bismarck's Anti-Socialist laws |
| 1789 | Bismarck abndons free trade, adopts a protective tariff |
| 1881 | Czar Alexander II assassinated |
| 1882 | Truple Alliance of Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Germany |
| 1883 | First of Bismarck's social insurance laws passed; Fabian society founded; French move into Tonkin (North Vietnam); Russian Social Democratic Party |
| 1884 | extension of suffrage in Great Britain |
| 1885 | Berlin conference; partition of Africa begins |
| 1888 | Kaiser Wilhelm II in Germany |
| 1889 | Boulanger Affair; Franco-Russian Alliance; Sino-Japanese War beins |
| 1898 | Fashoda crisis; Spainish-American War; naval arms race between Germany and England begins |
| 1899 | Boer War in South Africa |
| 1900 | Boxer rebellion |
| 1901 | separation of church and state in France |
| 1902 | Anglo-Japanese Naval Alliance |
| 1903 | Bolsheviks and Mensheviks split |
| 1904 | Anglo-French Entente; Russo-Japanese War begins |
| 1905 | Revolution in Russia; Einstein's theory of relativity; French Socialist Party founded; first Moroccan crisis |
| 1906 | beginning of social insurance laws and parliamentary reforms in England |
| 1907 | Anglo-Russian division of sphere of influence in Persia; Triple Entente |
| 1908 | Young Turk revolution; Bosnian crisis |
| 1911 | Italo-Turkish War; Chinese Revolution; Agadir crisis in Morocco |
| 1912 | First Balkan War |
| 1913 | Second Balkan War |
| 1914 | Ulster crisis; Franz Ferdinand assassinated; WWI begins; First Battle of the Marne; Battle of Tennenburg |
| 1916 | Battles of Verdun and the Somme; naval battle of Jutland; Easter Rebellion |
| 1917 | US enters WWI; Russian Revolution |
| 1918 | Meuse-Argonne offensive; armistice |
| 1919 | Paris Peace Conference |
| Dreyfus Affair | French political crisis arising from the conviction of Captain Alfred ____ for treason in 1894 . ____ was a Jewish army officer, convicted on evidence later proved false. |
| Entente Cordiale | the understanding between Britain and France reached in 1904 , forming the basis of Anglo-French cooperation in the First World War. |
| extraterritoriality | The right of a state under international law to exercise legal jurisdiction within the territory of another state. |
| mission civilisatrice | idea of spreading civilization soon became the official reason for further French colonial acquisitions. |
| schlieffen plan | Designed for a possible war against France and Russia. All-out attack in the W would rapidly defeat the French, enabling Germany to transfer its full force to the E against Russia, whose mobilization would be slower. |
| Young Turks | Group of Turks who wished to remodel the Ottoman Empire and make it a modern European state with a liberal constitution. Their movement began in the 1880s with unrest in the army and universities. |
| Fashoda crisis | France, irritated by Britain's continued hold over Egypt, decided to go for _____, on the White Nile to the south under Colonel Marchand. All that happened was they waited for the respective Foreign Offices to patch things up. In the end theFrenchgavein |
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