MODERN ERA

By heatherosee

  • Modern Era Begins

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    Industrial Revolution

  • More than 5,000 newspapers are published in the U.S.

  • Alexander Gragham Bell invents the telephone

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    Albert Einstein

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    Pablo Picasso

  • World's first cinema is built in Paris

  • Estimated 1,800 magazines in print in U.S.

  • Total newspaper circulation in U.S. passes 15 million daily

  • Henry Ford introduces assembly lines; mass production

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Begins WWI

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    Twentieth Century Crisis

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    World War 1

  • U.S. enters the War

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    Russian Civil War

  • Marconi creates the first short wave radio connection

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    Mass Consumerism; Ordinary people had access to modern goods [cars, phones, radios]

  • TV sets are put in 3 U.S. homes; Programming begins

  • Stock Market Crash

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    "New Deal"

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Emergence of German fascist govt. led by Adolf Hitler

  • Japan invades China

  • Germany invades Poland; Begins WWII

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    World War 2

  • Pearl Harbor; U.S. joins War

  • First Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Ends War

  • Creation of the United Nations

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    Contemporary Period

  • Led by Ghandi; India and Pakistan declare independance from Britain

  • Creation of the International Monetary Fund

  • Emergence of a Communist-dominated China

  • 1/3 of the Worlds Population lives under Communist Govts

  • First space satellite "Sputnik"; Soviet

  • First human, Yiori Gagarin [Soviet], into orbit

  • Landing a man on the moon