Imperialism and its Onslaught Formula Sheet

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Year	Event
1776	Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
1833	England adopts free trade
1879	German Tariff Act
1882	Triple Alliance
1894-95	Sino-Japanese War; Treaty of Shimonoseki
1904	Entente Cordiale
1904-05	Russo-Japanese War; Treaty of Portsmouth
1905	Bloody Sunday (23 January)
1911	Agadir crisis
1913	Treaty of London (May), Treaty of Bucharest (August)
1914	Sarajevo (28 June); Battle of the Marne (6-13 September)
1916	Verdun, Somme, Jutland
1917	USA enters war (April); Cambrai; Bolshevik government (8 November)
1918	Brest-Litovsk (3 March); German surrender (11 November)
1919	Treaty of Versailles (28 June)
1922	March on Rome
1929	Lateran Treaty; US stock market crash (24 October)
1933	Hitler becomes Chancellor
1946	League of Nations dissolved

Laissez-faire: no state control of trade; coined by de Gournay.
Trust / cartel: combinations of producers to control price and production / restrict competition.
Triple Entente: Britain, France, Russia.
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria.
Nihilism: revolt rejecting the authority of state, church and family.
Bolsheviks / Mensheviks: majority and minority at the 1903 congress.
Pravda: 'Truth', Soviet Communist Party paper, 1918-1991.
Fascism: from the Latin fasces, an axe in a bundle of rods.
Il Duce: Mussolini's title; Third Reich: Hitler's Nazi state.

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