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Mass Production E.g. Vehicles
The mass production of cars has changed the world and is now an event in history. Henry Ford created Ford Motor Company in October 1, 1908. At the end of 1913, the cars that Ford was making were becoming very popular that he was making half of all of the cars that were made in the United States of America. -
End of World War 1
On November 11, 1918 the armistice was signed by countries in bid to end the First World War. The British, French and American armies had continued to advance and were too much for the Germans to handle as they started crumbling from within. The agreement terms stated to call for the cessation of fighting along the Western Front to start at exactly 11 am on that morning. After this was done, the four years if war was finally over. -
Treaty of Versailles
On June 28, 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed in order to create peace and stop the First World War. It was signed at the Versailles Palace which is located in Paris, between the Germans and the Allies. -
The Jazz Age
The iconic Jazz Age was created in 1920, it went along with other names such as, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties. The old war had destroyed everything and people tried to create a new age to live in. Women had cut their hair into bobs and the clothes that they wore where much more exposed. -
Invention of Television
In the year or 1878, John Loggie Baird was the first person to be able to transmit a TV picture; this was done by using a mechanical camera with a large spinning dish which had a spiral of holes. However in 1927, Philo Farnsworth successfully created and demonstrated an electronic television. He figured out that a picture could be dissected into a series of lines of electricity, then the lines would be transmitted so quickly that the eyes would not notice and just merge the lines together, makin -
Market Crash of 1929
The great market crash of 1929 has been known by other names such as, Black Tuesday and Wall Street Crash. This marked the end of World War 1 and the start of The Great Depression. Investors would trade millions of dollars’ worth of shares every day. However, as unemployment levels had risen, and other factors, people could not pay their share of the stocks back, this soon led into trouble and the Great Depression was formed. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was between the years of 1929-1939 and was the deepest economic disaster in history for the Western world. It began soon after the stock market crash; this caused Wall Street into a panic and frenzy and lost millions of shares and investors. The levels of unemployment rose to new extremes as over 13 million Americans were unemployed. -
1938 Day of Mourning
In 1938 it was the 150th anniversary of the First Fleet which landed in Australia. However instead of celebrating, it was a day or mourning for the Aboriginals that originally lived on the land. For those that chose to mourn, they weren’t allowed to march in protest until the parade had passed. -
Start of World War II
The start of World War II is marked on the date September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Poland stated that “everybody” would take part in the war, to make sure that they would have a greater chance of winning. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour
On December 7, 1941, Japanese air crafts surprised the state of Hawaii with its attack on the Pearl Harbour. Hundreds of fighter planes dropped bombs and torpedoes into Pearl Harbour, blowing up war ships and even attacked the US fighter planes from the ground so then they would not be able to take off and try and fight back. -
Bombing of Darwin
On February 19, 1942, Darwin came under attack when Japanese forces raided the state from the air. There were two attacks, these involved 54 land-based bombers and 188 attack aircraft. The two attacks killed over 243 civilians and over 300 were injured. The bombing attacks continued until November, 1943, in which the Japanese had bombed Darwin 64 more times. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima, Japan was bombed by the United States. The bomb was the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT and was highly fatal. Hiroshima was flattened and tens of thousands of people were killed. -
Declaration of Human Rights
After having almost two decades of negotiations, the Declaration of Human Rights were agreed on in 1966. It entitles that it forbids torture and inhuman treatment, slavery, and hatred based upon race, religion, language, gender and sexuality. Before all of this, on December 10, 1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. -
Melbourne Olympics
Between the dates of November 22, 1956 to December 8, 1956, the city of Melbourne, Australia hosted the 1956 summer Olympic Games. This was the first ever Olympic games to be held in Australia and it caused excitement and chaos for the quiet city of Melbourne. -
Invention of the Internet
There is not just one inventor of the internet, however there are many as people created different stages of it, which led to further improvements. It started when an agency of the United States Defence Department began a network in which they researched programs which would entitle networks being able to interlink over technologies. In 1960 the internet was created for universities and governments to be able to exchange and retrieve information worldwide. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
On October 22, 1962, the United States of America president John. F Kennedy spoke to the nation via television about the nuclear missiles that were being built in the island of Cuba. An American spy plane had secretly photographed the missiles being built. This lead people to believe that there would be a nuclear war between the two countries, however, USA made a deal that it will not invade Cuba if they would dismantle the weapons. -
Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream..." Speech
On August 28, 1963, King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, during a rally on the steps on the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. The speech had calls for rights for all people no matter the race. The speech made a vital role in the freedom and equality of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Australian Freedom Rides
On February 12, 1965, the country town of New South Wales were visited by The Freedom Rides, in hope that the campaign would lessen racial discrimination. -
Invention of the Mobile Phone
The idea of the mobile phone was first placed in 1908 when Nathan B. Stubblefield applied for a wireless telephone; however it was only able to work when it was operated via strings. In 1973, Martin Cooper, invented the mobile phone. He was able to combine technology of the police radio and made it into the first ever portable phone. -
Release of Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee was released on April 30, 1986 and reached the second highest grossing film in world wide. Two versions of the movie have been released, an Australian version, which had Australian slang and an American version, which had the slang removed and replaced with common words. -
United Nations Coventions on the Rights of the Child
On November, 1989, the United Nations created the Convention on the Rights of the Children. This is the biggest rights treaty worldwide. All countries have signed the CRC, except the United States of America and Somalia. Australia signed the CRC on December, 1990. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
In 1961 the Berlin Wall was built overnight in reason to encircle the entire of West Berlin. The fall of the wall had begun right from when it was built, with people damaging the wall. On August of 1989, Hungary opened the wall up to Austria, in which many East German tourists took this opportunity to escape via Hungary. On November 9, 1989 a press conference with a member of the East German Government stated that the new travel law will come into place immediately, while this was happening, tho
