20th century music By BLEEDINUKBLUE Jan 1, 1901 musical theather starts Jan 1, 1908 Atonality music started Jan 1, 1912 blues started to come out in the country Aug 1, 1914 WWI starts Apr 5, 1917 US enters WWI Sep 9, 1919 WWI ends Jun 14, 1923 Television is invented Jan 1, 1926 start of electronic music Sep 4, 1929 Great Depression starts Mar 4, 1933 Frakilin D. Roosevelt is president Sep 3, 1939 WWII begins Dec 8, 1941 US enters WWII Feb 4, 1945 Cold War begins Jan 30, 1948 Ghandi is killed Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin Dies Jan 1, 1955 Civil Rights movement starts Jan 1, 1959 Film Music Began Jan 20, 1961 John F. Kennedy is President Aug 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. i have a dream speech Apr 30, 1975 End of Vietnam War May 4, 1979 Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of the United Kingdom Aug 1, 1984 Internet is invented Oct 1, 1988 Gorbachev takes office in USSR Aug 2, 1990 First Iraq war begins Sep 11, 2001 Attack on the World Trade centers Mar 19, 2003 second war in iraq Dec 30, 2006 Saddam Hussein is killed