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What revolutions broke out in Europe and America on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1960s and 1980s? What is the historical impact of each?
Europe: 1 France: 1789 The French Revolution broke out and the absolute monarchy in France was overthrown.

Impact:

For France, the French Revolution was an extensive and profound political and social revolution. From the capture of the Bastille in Paris to the hot month coup, the French Revolution experienced five years, like a storm, which was extremely rapid. In the three uprisings, people showed great strength, saved the revolution from crisis after crisis, and pushed it forward further, ending the feudal autocracy in France 1000 years.

To the world: The French Revolution was the biggest bourgeois revolution in modern world history. It destroyed the feudal autocracy of France, impacted the feudal order of the whole European continent, established bourgeois political rule, promoted the development of capitalist economy and spread the progressive thought of capitalist freedom and democracy. The Declaration of Human Rights promulgated during this period and the Civil Code promulgated during the Napoleonic Empire (later renamed the Napoleonic Code) had a far-reaching impact on world history. This revolution has also set an example for other countries' revolutions, so it has world significance.

North America: USA

On April 1775, the American War of Independence broke out.

Influence: The victory of the War of Independence freed the United States from British colonial rule, realized national independence, cleared the obstacles for the development of American capitalism, set an example for the national independence movement of Latin American people, and promoted the European revolution in the18th century. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of 1787, and the new political system they established are precious legacies of human civilization.