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World War 1
The murder of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a chain of events that led to war in early August 1914. The murder was traced to a Serbian extremist group that wanted to increase their power in the Balkans by breaking up the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Thethe Entente Powers (France, Russia, the British Empire, Italy and the United State) defeat the Central Powers (German, Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and Ottoman Empires). Russia withdrew from the war after the revolution there in 1917. -
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a civil war. The peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government created the country of the Soviet Union. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. It began when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945, when the Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. -
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World War 2
The war began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and raged across the globe until 1945, when Japan surrendered to the United States after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It split the world's nations into two alliances. The Allies (Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and France) against the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). It was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War. It took place In Europe, the dividing line between East and West remained essentially frozen during the next decades. But conflict spread to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969, at 8:32 AM Central Daylight Time (CDT) with the goal of performing the first human landing on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin entered lunar orbit on the afternoon of July 19. the first space mission to put people on the Moon. Almost every major aspect of the flight of Apollo 11 was witnessed via television by hundreds of millions of people in nearly every part of the globe. -
Invention of the internet
ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard on January 1, 1983, hence the birth of the Internet. All networks could now be connected by a universal language. January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. Though the World Wide Web became available to the broader public On April 30, 1993, it was created on 1983 -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. In 1989, political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany. It was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961