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Mass Poduction
Mass Production involves making many copies of products, very quickly, using assembly line techniques to send partially complete products to workers who each work on an individual step, rather than having a worker work on a whole product from start to finish.It was popularized in the 1910s and 1920s by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company. -
End of WW1
WW1 ended when the Allied forces pushed towards the German border began on October 17, 1918. As the British, French and American armies advanced, the alliance between the Central Powers began to collapse. Turkey signed an armistice at the end of October, Austria-Hungary followed on November 3. Germany began to crumble from within and surrendered on November 11, 1918. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918.The treaty was signed at the Versailles Palace near Paris. The Versailles Palace was considered the most appropriate venue simply because of its size. -
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age is when jazz music and dance became popular. This occurred particularly in the United States. Jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes during the period and its influence on pop culture continued long afterwards. -
Invention of Television
John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer, innovator and inventor of the world's first television system. The history of television comprises the work of numerous engineers and inventors in several countries over many decades. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.The Great Depression had devastating effects in countries rich and poor.The depression originated in the U.S., after the fall in stock prices became worldwide news with the stock market crash of 1929 -
Market Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 also known as Black Tuesday, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. The crash signalled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression. -
1938 Day of Mourning
The Day of Mourning called for the Aboriginal people to be able to access the same citizenship rights as those of white australians. This included their land being returned, equal employment opportunity, improvement in standards of health care, housing and education.They also requested that Aboriginal children should no longer be taken from their families. -
Start of WW2
The Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler had refused to abort his invasion of Poland. -
Japanese Attack on Pear Harbour
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.The attack led to the United States entry into World War II. -
Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 was both the first and the largest single attack on Australia. On this day, 242 Japanese aircrafts attacked ships in Darwin's harbour and airfields and inflicted heavy losses. -
Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are entitled. -
Melbourne Olympics
The Melbourne 1956 Games was the first time Australia hosted the Olympics. It was the first Games held outside of Europe or the United States, the first Games held in the southern hemisphere, and the first Games in which all the athletes walked together as one in the Closing Ceremony -
Invention Of Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that link to several billion devices worldwide.The Internet carries an extensive range of information and services, such as websites, social networking etc. The origins of the Internet date back to research by the United States government in the 1960s to build communication via computer networks -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis 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 war. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. He delivered ot to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. -
Australian Freedom Rides
The Freedom Ride of 1965 was a significant event in the history of civil rights for Indigenous Australians. The students from the University Of Sydney protested, picketed and faced violence tp raise the issue of Indigenous rights. At the time of the Freedom Ride in 1965, some Aboriginal people and their rights as citizens were regularly ignored. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945 he United States used a massive atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb flattened the city and killed tens of thousands of civilians. -
Invention of Mobile Phone
A mobile phone is a phone that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. Martin Cooper contructed the first handheld mobile phone and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983. -
Release of Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. This filmed cost $8.8 million to make and at the box office made over $328 million dollars. They made 2 versions of the film: The Australian Version which contained Australian slang and the Amercian Version which contained understood terms. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Germany from surrounding East Germany. -
United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen.
