20th century

By marion_99

  • World War 1

    World War 1
    World War 1 was one of the deadliest conflicts in hoistory, more then 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result.

  • Nazi power and the Holocaust

    Nazi power and the Holocaust
    Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power due to the social and political circumstances that characterized the interwar period in Germany.

  • World War II

    World War II
    The second World War was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.

  • End of the war

    End of the war
    Germany surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April and early May 1945.

  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).

  • Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration arose due to the experience of WWII

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

  • Freedom Rides in America

    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional

  • Freedom Riders in Australia

    Freedom Riders in Australia
    The Freedom Ride through western New South Wales towns in February 1965 drew attention to the racism in these towns. Aboriginal student Charles Perkins was, by the end of the journey, a national figure in the fight for Aboriginal rights.