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Overview 20th Century Timeline
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End of WWI
In the morning of today, an Armistice was signed in a French forest, not too far away from the front lines. After four years of horrific fighting, World War One was finally over. In every corner of the world, people were celebrating by drinking, dancing and hailing the Armistice. This would go down as an iconic day in history. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles to end World War One was signed by Germany and the Allies. The Allies were represented by what was known at that time as "The Big Three". They were made up of the Brittish Prime Minister, the French Premier and the US President. Suring the brutal war, there were 8.5 million men killed. -
Invention of the Television
The exact date of the invention of the television is unknown but it is believed that it was invented in the 1920's. John Logie Baird was a pioneer of television. "John Logie Baird was a pioneer of television."(BBC, John Logie Baird) Although there were believed to be many people who helped invent this bit of technology, it was Baird who first showed the world TV images. -
Start of the Great Depression
The Great Depression went on for about a decade and during this time the was "A severe economic downturn caused by an overly-confident, over-extended stock market and a drought that struck the South." (History 1900's Great Depression) When US entered World War 2, that ws when the Great Depression ended in the States. -
Market Crash of 1929
The Market Crash of 1929 was also the start of the Great Depression. This day was also known as Black Tuesday. Durig spring there were signs of the market crashing. Things that happened the production of steel went down, house construction went down at a rapid rate and so did the sales of cars. This was just the start of the Great Depression. -
1938 Day of Mourning
On this date, Australians were celebrating the arrival of the European settlement and about 100 Indigenous Australians gathered in a hall. This was to not celebrate but to mourn. It was more of a protest for Indigenous Australians. It was because that when the European settlers came, they also took the land of the Indigenous people. This is why on Australia Day, aboriginals mourn instead of celebrate. -
Start of WWII
"No one wanted war. Yet, when Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, other European countries felt they had to act." (History1900's, world was one starts) Hitler had an ambition. His ambition was to get more land and to expand Germany to the Nazi policy. -
Japanese Attack of Pearly Harbour
"On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory." (Americas library, wwii pearlhar) The bombing killed more than 2300 American people and went down as a devastating day in not just American history but also world history.The attack sank or beached 12 ships and damaged nine others. -
Bombing of Darwin
The mainland of Darwin came under attack when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin. The raid was planned and led by the commander who was responsible for the Attack on Pearl Harbour. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On this day at around 8am an American B-29 Bomber dropped the world's first atomic bomb. There were around 80,000 people killed and another 35,000 injured. Before the bomb there were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima, after there were only 28,000. In Hiroshima, there were around 200 qualified doctors, after there were only 20. -
Declaration of Human Rights
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War." (UN UDHR) The human rights were proclaimed by the UN and the human rights were universially protected for the first time. -
United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
A few of the points in the right of the child are like so: 1) The government makes all of the rights avaliable to children. 2) Governments need to make sure that children are not abducted or sold. 3) Governments need to make sure that children aren't taken out of their country illegally. -
Melbourne Olympics
The Olympics of 1956 was a landmark day for Australia as it was the first time that the country had hosted the games. There were a total of 72 nations that attended the the USSR coming out on top with 37 gold medals. Australia were back in third on 13 gold medals. In a time where the Olympics were dominated by men, there were only 376 female competitors. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
"The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict." (Hitory. state, Cuban Missile Crisis) -
"I have a dream" Speech
A quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In 1963, black americans faced racism particuarly in the southern states of the US. The march marked the peak of a series of protests against racial injustice that had begun when seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger in 1955. (BBC Histroy Martin Luther King) -
Australian Freedom Rides
The Freedom Ride in Australia went through western towns of NSW and raised attention to racism in these towns. Aboriginal student Charles Perkins at the end of the journey was a colt figure in the fight for Aboriginal rights. -
Invention of the Mobile Phone
Dr. Martin Cooper is considered the inventor of the mobile phone. He was seen walking down the streets making a call to his rival Joe Engel taking the first Motorolla DynaTAC prototype. -
Release of Crocodille Dundee
Paul Hogan was the star of this movie when a US Journilist brings a crocodille hunter to the USA and he struggles to fit in with the surroundings. Directed by Peter Faiman, the man who played Crocodille Dundee, won a Golden Globe for best performance by an actor in a motion picture. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
"After the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany reunified into a single German state on October 3, 1990." (History1900's Berlin Wall) The wall seperated West Germany from East Germany to begin with.
