World Events De’Dra Smith World History 1 st period May 15,2014.
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World EventsDe’Dra Smith
World History
1st period
May 15,2014
1900’s• 1901- Queen Victoria dies
• 1902-Teddy bear introduced
• 1903- Wright brothers (first flight)
• 1904-ground broken on panama canal
• 1905-Einstein proposes his theory of relativity
• 1906-Finland first European country to give women the right
to vote
• 1907-Picasso introduced cubism
• 1908- Henry Ford introduced the Model-T
• 1909-NAACP is founded
1910’s• 1910- Tango catches on
• 1911- Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom
• 1912-Oreo cookies first introduced
• 1913- Henry Ford creates first moving assembly line
• 1914- World War 1 starts: Archduke Ferdinand
Assassination
• 1915- Lusitania sunk by German U-boat
• 1916-First self- service grocery store
• 1917- U.S enters WW1
• 1918-Spanish flu pandemic
• 1919– Treaty of Versailles ends WW1
1920’s• 1920-Harlem Renaissance begins : Women granted
the right to vote in the U.S.
• 1921- lie detector invented
• 1922- insulin discovered
• 1923-Hitler jailed after failed coup
• 1924-First Olympic winter games
• 1925-Hitlers Mein Kampf published
• 1926-A.A Milne published Winnie-the-Pooh
• 1927-Babe Ruth makes home-run record
• 1928-Bubble gum invented
• 1929-Great Depression begins
1930’s• 1930-pluto discovered
• 1931- U.S officially gets national anthem
• 1932-Air conditioning invented
• 1933-Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
(HOLOCAUST)
• 1934-The Dust Bowl
• 1935-Germany issues the Anti-Jewish nuremburg laws
• 1936- Hoover dam completed
• 1937-Japan invades China
• 1938-Broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” causes panic
• 1939-World War 2 begins
1940’s• 1940- Battle of Britain
• 1941-Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
• 1942-Japanese-Americans held in camps
• 1943-Italy joins the allies
• 1944:D-Day
• 1945-FDR dies: End of holocaust
• 1946-Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech
• 1947-Marshall Plan
• 1948-Ghandi assassinated
• 1949-NATO established
1950’s• 1950-First “Peanuts” cartoon strip
• 1951-color television introduced
• 1952- Seat belts introduced
• 1953- DNA discovered
• 1954-Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S.
• 1955-Disney land opens
• 1956-Velcro introduced
• 1957-Cat-in-the Hat published
• 1958-NASA founded
• 1959-Sound of music opens on broadway
1960’s
• 1960-The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
• 1961-Berlin wall built
• 1962-Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1963-JFK Assassinated
• 1964-Beatles become popular in the U.S
• 1965-Malcolm X Assassinated
• 1966-National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
• 1967-Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• 1968- Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
• 1969-Neil Armstrong first man on the moon
1970’s• 1970-Beatles Break Up
• 1971-VCRs Introduced
• 1972-WaterGate scandal begins
• 1973-Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion in the U.S
• 1974-U.S. President Nixon Resigns
• 1975-Microsoft Founded
• 1976-North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam
• 1977-Elvis found dead
• 1978-Jonestown massacre
• 1979-Iran takes American hostages in Tehran
1980’s• 1980-Failed U.S. attempt to save hostages in Tehran
• 1981-New plague identified as AIDs
• 1982-E.T. movie released
• 1983-Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars
• 1984-Huge poison gas leak in Bhopae,India
• 1985-Wreck of the Titanic found
• 1986-Chernobyl nuclear disaster
• 1987-DNA used to convict criminals
• 1988-U.S. shoots down Iranian airliner
• 1989-Berlin wall falls
1990’s• 1990-Nelson Mandela freed
• 1991-collapse of Soviet Union
• 1992-Official end of the Cold war
• 1993- World Trade center bombed
• 1994-Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa
• 1995-Sarin Gas attack in Tokyo subway
• 1996- mad cow disease hits Britain
• 1997-Princess Diana dies (car crash)
• 1998- The movie Titanic is a success
• 1999-Killing spree at Columbine High
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