The People/Dates/Events for AP World
1618-1648
30 years war in Europe
1756 to 1763
7 years war/French and Indian War
2001
9/11 attacks / War in Afghanistan
Theodoore Roosevelt
A champion of U.S. imperialism, as president he exerted the right to intercede in Latin American affairs to protect U.S. interests including by supporting a Panamanian revolt against Colombia to guarantee U.S. control of the future Panama Canal.
Kawame Nkrumah
After nonviolently leading Ghana to be the first African colony to win independence and becoming its first prime minister, he became a symbol of black pride and a champion of pan-African unity during the Cold War
Sixteenth century
Akbar Ignatius Loyola Afonso I Martin Luther
Otto Van Bismark
Appointed prime minister of Prussia, his rhetoric of "blood and iron" led to a rise in German nationalism and the establishment of the Second Reich, an important step in the unification of Germany.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
As head of the Muslim League, he played a major role in the struggle for Indian independence from the British, though his fear of the Hindu domination over the Muslim minority led him to break with Gandhi and fight for the creation of a separate Pakistan as a Muslim nation.
Gamal Abdet Nasser
As leader of Egypt, he took an internationalist position in which he refused to take sides in the Cold War which he perceived as the source of new forms of imperialism and generated a strong pan- Arab nationalism through his anti-Israel stance and his strong actions that led to the seizure of the Suez Canal.
Sergei Witte
As the Russian minister of finance, he was the primary force behind Russia's industrialization typified by a huge railway construction program that stimulated other areas of the economy.
1855
Berlin Conference
1807
British Abolition of the slave trade
James Cook
British explorers, he extensively explored the Pacific leading to the first contacts between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of Australia, New Zealand, and many Pacific islands including Hawaii and Polynesia.
Osman Bey
Chief of a nomadic band of Turks attempting to create an army of ghazi, or religious warriors. He founded the dynasty that would later establish the Ottoman Empire.
1949
Chinese Communist Revolution
1967
Chinese Cultural Revolution/ 6 Day War
1911
Chinese Revolution
1853
Commodore Perry opens Japan
Nineteenth century
Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: the Napoleonic Empire ends) European revolutions Emancipation Proclamation issued in US New Zealand is the first to award women suffrage; other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow Boer War - Dutch under British rule in South Africa
1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
Thirteenth century
Crusades into Holy land by Europe Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia Marco Polo travels in China
1959
Cuban Revolution and Invention of the silicon chip (beginning of computer age).
Bennito Mussolini
Disenchanted with socialism, he embraced a new political ideology of extreme militarism and nationalism in Italy that would evolve into the first movement of the political ideology known as fascism, seizing power as he gained popularity and later allying with Hitler
1644
End of Ming Dynasty - rise of the Qing
1991
Fall of USSR/1 st Gulf war
Emiliano Zapata
Fighting for "land and liberty," this mestizo peasant became one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution which ultimately failed though it pushed for the drafting of a new Constitution that implemented land redistribution, universal suffrage, and an extension of freedoms.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Following independence from the British, he guided India to democracy as its first prime minister and at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, strongly promoted the strategy of nonalignment which encouraged post-colonial nations to chart their own course free of the Cold War influences of the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
1789
French Revolution - The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen • Olympe de Gouges's "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen"(1791) • Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Thirteenth century
Genghis Khan Marco Polo
1994
Genocide in Rwanda/1 st all race elections in S. Africa
1871
German unification
1957
Ghana is first African nation to gain independence
1689
Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
Twenty-first century
Great Global Recession begins Wikileaks - Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan, Yemenese, Syrian, Bahraini etc. democracy movement
1804
Haitian independence
Vasco de Gama
He captained the first European sea voyage to reach India where he reportedly said he had come for "Christians and spices" and where Portugal soon established a trading post giving them a head start in the Indian Ocean trade.
Joseph Stalin
He emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union out of the power struggle that followed the death of Vladimir Lenin and pushed his nation through a series of Five Year Plans to industrialize and imprisoned or executed many communists within the government who dared to confront his power.
St. Thomas Aquinas, thirteenth century
He is the most famous scholastic theologian trying to reconcile the teaching of Christianity with the scientific and philosophical ideas of Aristotle, which had been recently reintroduced to western Europe through the contacts with the Byzantines & Muslims
Ayatollah Khomeini
He led Iran on a fundamentalist path after the successful Islamic Revolution which expelled Westerners from the country, sent the CIA-imposed shah fleeing into exile, and led to an extended hostage crisis when Muslim students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
Fifteenth century
Henry the Navigator Mehmed II Afonso I Vasco Da Gama Louis the sixteenth
Louis the sixteenth
His actions as king of France led the third estate to secede from the government and establish the National Assembly which led the French Revolution and soon created the Convention, a legislative body that ordered him executed.
Mehmed II
His military conquest of Constantinople strengthened the Ottoman Empire and marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople was renamed Istanbul.
Foruteenth century
Ibn Buttuta Mansa Musa Osman Bey Hongwu ZhengHe Tamerlane
Eigteenth century
Industrial Revolution begins - steam locomotive, textiles, etc. Invention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines
Simon Bolivar
Inspired by both the ideas of the Enlightenment and the actions of the American Revolution, this Venezuelan creole led a movement of independence from Spain in which he hoped to create a federation in South America similar to the United States in North America.
1979
Iranian Revolution
Twentieth century
Italian invasion of Ethiopia German blitzkrieg in Poland Pearl Harbor Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad birth of Israel / The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu (French out of Vietnam) Yom Kippur War 1 st Palestinian Intifada Namibia is the last country to gain independence in Africa
Eighteenth century
James Cook Louis the Fourteenth Olympe De Gorges
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Seventeenth century
John Lock Louis the Fourteenth Tokugawa Ieyasu
Mustafa Kemal
Known as the "Father of the Turks," he modernized and secularized the new nation the Republic of Turkey after the final dissolution of the Ottoman Empire saving his people from much of the post- war chaos experienced throughout Europe after World War I.
1950 to 1953
Korean War
1810 to 1825
Latin American independence (first Mexican Revolution)
1215
Magna Carta signed by King John
1517
Martin Luther/95 theses - Protestant Reformation begins
1848
Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto
1910 to 1920
Mexican Revolution
1303
Mongols conquer Russia (Golden Horde)
1258
Mongols sack Baghdad (Il-Khanate)
Nineteenth century
Napoleon Bonaparte Sergie Witte Simon Bolivar Otto Van Bismark Toussaint L'Ouverture Karl Marx Cecil Rhodes Queen Victoria
Cecil Rhodes
One of the most successful imperialists of all times, he dominated the diamond industry and worked for British interests in Africa most notably pushing for a belt of British control across the continent to enable for the construction of a Cape-to-Cairo railroad.
1839
Opium Wars begin in China
Seventeenth century
Ottoman attack Vienna unsuccessfully
Ignatius Loyola
Part of the Catholic Reformation (Counter Reformation) responding to Protestant Reformation. Founded the Society of Jesus (aka Jesuits) which became one of the strongest forces of missionary activities in the following centuries- three main activities: spread Catholic faith, end Protestantism and build schools.
Deng Xiaoping
Perhaps more responsible than any other individual for the changes in China since the death of Mao Zedong, he opened up China to foreign and capitalist influences, though his liberalization policies did not extend to political freedoms as seen in the bloody response to the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square
1533
Pizarro toppled the Inca
Henry Navigator
Portuguese prince that began a school of navigation that led his kingdom to an early lead in the race of exploration. Sent explorers down the coast of Africa in hopes to find a sea passage to India for trade purposes.
Olympe de Gorge
Pushing the barriers of revolutionary thought, she wrote one of the earliest assertions of the equality of women in the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen for which she went to the guillotine.
1492
Reconquista of Spain
Fourteenth century
Rise of Ottomans Renaissance begins in Italy Mansa Musa's pilgrimage travels of Ibn Battuta Bubonic plague in Europe
1917
Russian Revolution
1905
Russo-Japanese war and Einstein's theory of special relativity published
1857
Sepoy Mutiny in India
Twentieth century
Sergie Witte Theodoore Roosevelt
1898
Spanish-American War - Spain loses colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines)
1776
The American Declaration of Independence American Revolution/ Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations
John Locke
This English philosopher during the Enlightenment. Attacked theory of divine right and declaring that political sovereignty lay in the people being governed (choose your own government), an idea that inspired revolutions.
Afonso I
This king of Kongo furthered Portuguese success during the early years of the age of exploration when his conversion to Christianity allowed for closer diplomatic, economic, and religious ties though a rise in the slave trade would eventually lead to the destruction of his kingdom.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
This man established a shogunate that would dominate Japan for hundreds of years
Ho Chi Minh
This popular Vietnamese nationalist led the war for independence against the French to become the communist leader of North Vietnam, and later the chief enemy of the United States in the region as he tried to reunited the country under his leadership.
Queen Victoria
This ruler of the British empire at its height of global imperial control led Great Britain for more than sixty years during the Berlin conference and the peak of British territorial control in both India and Africa.
1989
Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall
1914 to 1919
WWI/ Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Twentieth century
Woodrow Wilson Emiliano Zapata Mikhail Gorbachev Ho Chi Minh Mao Zhe Dong Gamal Abdet Nasser Ayatollah Khomeini Mustafa Kemal Jawaharlal Nehru Joseph Stalin Muhammad Ali Jinnah Deng XiaoPing Benito Mussolini Kawame Nkrumah
1271
Yuan Dynasty established in China
1603
beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate
1956
de-Stalinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal
1861
end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification
1945
end of WWII - and dropping of atomic bombs on Japan
Fifteenth century
end of Zheng He's voyages Rise of the Inca Gutenberg Bible printed on printing press Aztec Empire at its height Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
1607
founding of Jamestown
1947
freedom & partition of India
1929
stock market crash/Great Depression