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Mass Production
The major event that created the start of mass prouction occured in 1908 during October when Henry Ford revealed his new the new model T automobile which took consumers by storm. By the end of 1913 the car was so popular that Ford was making half of all cars produced in the US. To remain ahead of produciton Ford had to employ more people and start mass production assuring that all employees had one specific job in one specific area. -
End of WWI
In 1918 German Commander Erich Ludendorff announced to his country that if they were to win the war the allied countries had to be defeated on the Western Front before the United States arrived. Although his agressive strategy worked well for some time the allied troops were successfully able to push the Germans back forcing Ludendorff to sign the armistice on the 11th of November. -
Treaty of Versailles
On June 28 1919 both Germany and the allied countries signed a treaty at the Palace of Versailles. The treaty dispossesed Germany of around of their 1914 territory and all of their overseas posessions. It also restricted the German to 100,000 men and restricted the use heavy artillery, gas, tanks and aircrafts. It is often argued that the harsh terms of the treaty caused Germany to backlash causing WWII to breakout. -
The Jazz Age
The twenties, also known by some as the "Jazz Age", were the time for experiments and discovering new jazz-styles. In that period of growing industrialisation black people and new-Orleans-musicians moved from the country site south to Chicago. There they helped creating the (white) Chicago-Style. Lots of Chicago musicians finally moved to New York, which was an important centre of jazz, too. -
Invention of the Television
John Logie Baird was a man that sold socks and soap to get by before he became obsessed with devloping the first working operating television. He would attempt to take money off family and friends to buy all the parts he needed to assemble his design. In 1925 he was ready to give his first public display. In 1927 he was able to transmit colour television from a system he called a Phonovision. His invention has been vital to not only entertaining kids but also sharing worldwide news very fast. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was about a decade and a half of economic hardship for people all around the world. It was mainly caused by a major stock market crash in 1929 in which many people had invested in. Farmers were especially affected because at the time major droughts and heavy winds ravaged through many parts of the world leaving them with reduced income and also reduced food production leaving them hungry. The start of WWII created more job oppurtunities and ended the harsh era of 'TGD'. -
Market Crash
A severe downturn in equity prices that occurred in October of 1929 in the United States, and which marked the end of the "Roaring Twenties." The crash of 1929 did not occur in one day, but was spread out over a two-week period beginning in mid-October. The first portion of the crash occurred on October 24, a day known as Black Thursday. -
Day of Mourning
For many Australians Aboriginal the 26th of January is referred to as 'Invasion Day,' or 'Day of Mourning,' It marks the date that the English colony landed on Australian shores and devastated the lives of all Indigenous inhabitants already there. -
Start of WWII
War was officially announced when a forceful Germany attacked an underprepared Poland in hope to gain land and build their empire. This forced European and allied countries to react and join the resistance against Germany. On September 1 Great Britain and France sent an ultimatum to Adolf Hitler. Either withdraw further attack or Great Britain and France would join the war. WWII had officially begun. -
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbour
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise torpedo attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. On December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech, also known as the “Infamy Speech” to the American citizens, informing them that this happened while the US was in the midst of talks to keep peace. That same day, America entered into World War II. -
Bombing of Darwin
On the 19th of February 1942 the mainland of Australia came under attack for the first time when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin. The two attacks, which were planned and led to 243 people dead and 300-400 people wounded. In the first attack, which began just before 10.00 am, heavy bombers pattern-bombed the harbour and town. The hospital at Berrimah was also under attack. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
During World War II, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the United States military on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively, killing at least 100,000 civilians outright and many more over time. One of the primary reasons given for the use of the bomb was that it would force Japan to surrender unconditionally. Japan presented its formal document of surrender to the Allied powers on August 15. -
Declaration of Human Rights
When the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, on 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in one of the brief spells of enlightenment in the twentieth century, one could hardly anticipate that a historical process of generalization of the international protection of human rights was being launched, 0n a truly universal scale. -
Melbourne Olympics
The Melbourne 1956 Games was the first time Australia hosted the Olympics. In many ways, it was the Games that took the Olympics to the world. It was the first Games held outside of Europe or the United States, the first Games held in the southern hemisphere, the first Games where live television broadcasts captured the public’s imagination, and the first Games in which all the athletes walked together as one in the Closing Ceremony. -
Invention of the Internet
The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream" speech
On August 28, 1963, King gives his speech for freedom. He begins his speech with the emancipation of the slaves, issued by Abraham Lincoln, and later mentions that after being freed from slavery, blacks are still not free. King claims all men were issued a check and a promise of freedom, yet for Black men and women that check has come back with "insufficient funds." -
Australian Freedom Rides
In February 1965 a group of University of Sydney students organised a bus tour of western and coastal New South Wales towns. The students aim was to draw public attention to the poor state of Aboriginal health, education and housing in particular. They hoped to show outline the difference between the aboriginal and white residents. -
Invention of the Mobile Phone
The history of the telephone is rooted in work that was being done in the mid to late 19th century by a number of researchers, which was primarily focused on improving the abilities of telegraphy. Specifically, much of the focus was on enabling telegraphy to carry more traffic. In this research, a number of researchers realized discovered how sound could be sent over wires. -
Release of Crocidile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee created in 1986 was a comedy aimed at a wide United Stated target audience but took the world by storm and went on to become the second-highest grossing film worldwide in the box office. It stars the very famous Australian actor Paul Hogan who plays Michael "Crocodile" Dundee. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
Since 1841 laws have been put in place to protect children in the workplace but it wasn't until 1989 that the rights of children was unanimously approved by the United Nations. The rights state that every child has a right to: life, education, food, health, water, identity, freedom and protection.
