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The first gloabal war breaks loose between two main opposing groups: The Allies and The Central Powers.
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The National Council for the Social Studies was founded.
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The world's economy plummets leaving the population to the scarcest and bleakest times they have ever seen in the decade preceding WWII.
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The world enters it's second global war and it is the must devestating even the earth has ever seen with more deaths than anything before or after it's time.
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The Japanese Imperial launches a surprise strike at the U.S. Naval Base in Pearl Harbor.
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North and South Korea go to was when the North encroaches on the 38th parallel, previously established as a boundary line.
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The world's biggest movement for general equality involves sit-ins, protests, rallies, and more.
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The first artificail satallite, Sputnik, is launched from Russia.
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Vietnam goes to war.
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Yuri Gagarin, from Russia, is the first man to successfully enter space's orbit.
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Neil Armstrong, from the United States, is the first man to set foot on the moon.
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Nixon Administration is involved with a huge scandal in which they try to tamper with evidence.
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The No Child Left Behind initiative, put forth by the Bush Administration, is established in schools.
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Four terrorist attacks were launched at the United States.
