World War I – history of Europe
A Russian machine gun from World War I What led up to World War I? At the end of the 1800s, many countries around the world were angry. France, Britain, and [...]
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European history – 1500 to now
Vasco da Gama and Columbus used ships like these During the 1500s AD, the people of Europe got much richer than they had been in the Middle Ages. With the collapse of [...]
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Germany in the 1800s – Bismarck
Map of Europe after the Congress of Vienna (thanks to Wikipedia) What was the Congress of Vienna? An alliance of European armies finally defeated Napoleon in 1814. Then all the European countries [...]
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Anarchists, Franco and modern Spain
Anarchist militia (Barcelona, 1936) Spain after World War I Just as with the Napoleonic Wars, World War I left Spain with the difficult problem of having close relationships with countries on both [...]
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Depression in Europe – 1930s
Germany during the Depression Why was Europe suddenly poor? After World War I, Europe was much poorer than it had been before the war. Many men had been killed in [...]
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Austria-Hungary in the 1800s
Leopold's son Francis II Leopold attacks France Joseph II of Austria died at 48 in 1790 AD, just before the French Revolution. His younger brother Leopold II took power. The new French government [...]
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European economy in the 1900s
European economy in the 1900s: British coal miners on strike in 1926 At the beginning of the 1900s, most people in Europe were still farming and living in the country. But, continuing [...]
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Gandhi and India’s independence
Indian National Congress (1885) with Gandhi in it Indian National Congress By the 1880s, India was becoming a very poor country. That was because the British government made all their choices [...]
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Russian Revolution – History of Russia
Lenin, a leader of the Russian Revolution What led to the Russian Revolution? By the late 1800s, after the Crimean War, people in Asia were looking at the new republican [...]
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Modern Afghanistan – Central Asian History
Modern Afghanistan: the Dar-ul-Aman Palace outside Kabul (1920s) World War I From 1880 until the end of World War I, the British controlled Afghanistan along with British India. Afghanistan mostly [...]
