20th Century

  • 1900s

    1900 Dawn of the 20th Century
    1902 Australia Federates
  • 10

    1914 start of WW1
  • 20s

    1929 wall street crash
  • 30s

    1932 Unemploymant peaks in Australia
    1932 A slow economic recovery underway globaly
    1939 start of WW2
  • 40s

    1945 UN formed
    1945 First atomic bomb explodes in hiroshima
    1948 United nations universal decleration of human rights is adopted
  • 50s

    1950 start of the Korean war
    1950 United Nations agrees to suport South Korea
    1952 Woman in America are granted the right to stand for election
  • 60s

    1962 Aborigines are granted the right to vote
    1964 Martin Luthor King Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize
    1968 Black power salute is given at Mexico City Olympics
  • 70s

    1972 Israeli athletes are kidnapped and killed in the Munich Olympics
    1975 Papau New Guniea gains independants
    1976 Vietnamese refugees arive in Australia
  • 80s

    1980 Iran Iraq War
  • 90s

    1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first native south african President
  • 00s

  • Today