Europe 2011: Eurozone Crisis
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											Crisis of Europe
									
										
											
												-27–68 Julio-Claudian Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												68–96 Flavian Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												96–192 Nerva–Antonine Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												192–235 Severan Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												235–268 Crisis of the Third Century: Turmoil
											
										
									
										
											
												268–284 Crisis of the Third Century: Restoration
											
										
									
										
											
												284–311 Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
											
										
									
										
											
												311–363 Constantinian Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												363–383 Valentinianic Dynasty
											
										
									
										
											
												383–408 Theodosian Dynasty: Divided Empire
											
										
									
										
											
												408–425 Theodosian Dynasty: The West Besieged
											
										
									
										
											
												425–441 Theodosian Dynasty: Fall of Africa
											
										
									
										
											
												441–455 Theodosian Dynasty: Hunnic Wars
											
										
									
										
											
												455–461 Last Hope of the Western Empire
											
										
									
										
											
												461–476 Fall of the Western Empire
											
										
									
										
											
												476–1803 NO MAPS FOR THIS PERIOD YET
											
										
									
										
											
												1803–1814 Napoleonic Wars
											
										
									
										
											
												1814–1815 Vienna and Waterloo
											
										
									
										
											
												1815–1848 Congress Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												1848–1850 Springtime of Peoples
											
										
									
										
											
												1850–1859 Crimean War
											
										
									
										
											
												1859–1862 Italian Unification
											
										
									
										
											
												1862–1871 German Unification
											
										
									
										
											
												1871–1914 Imperial Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												1914–1918 Great War
											
										
									
										
											
												1918–1922 Armistice Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												1922–1939 Rise of Fascism
											
										
									
										
											
												1939–1942 World War II: Blitzkrieg
											
										
									
										
											
												1942–1945 World War II: Fall of the Third Reich
											
										
									
										
											
												1945–1990 Cold War
											
										
									
										
											
												1990–2010 Post-Cold War Europe
											
										
									
										
											
												2010–pres Crisis of Europe
											
										
									
								
							Eurozone Crisis
						
							
								19 Mar 2011 Eurozone Crisis
							
						
							
								18 Mar 2014 Crimean Crisis
							
						
							
								23 May 2014 Donbas Rebellion
							
						
							
								17 Jul 2014 Rise of Daesh
							
						
							
								7 Oct 2015 Syrian Civil War
							
						
							
								27 Oct 2017 Return of Nationalism
							
						
							
								31 Jan 2020 Brexit
							
						
							
								22 Mar 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
							
						
							
								16 Jan 2023 Battle of Bakhmut
							
						
							
								24 Jun 2023 Wagner Group rebellion
							
						
							
								17 Feb 2024 Battle of Avdiivka
							
						
							
								20 Aug 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
							
						
							
								15 Jan 2025 Europe Today
							
						
					
				In 2008 a major financial crisis had broken out in the US and rapidly spread to Europe. Its impact was greatest on Greece, Ireland and Portugal, small countries who had joined the single currency eurozone in the previous decade and were now heavily in debt in a currency over which they had no control.
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