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The Titanic
The Titanic struck an iceberg sideways in the North Atlantic, denting parts of the starboard hull along a 91-meter stretch and exposing all six compartments to the ocean waters. From this moment on, sinking was a certainty. -
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first world war
The Austro-Hungarian emperor, supported by Germany, blamed Serbia for the attack. Serbia was an ally of Russia, which in turn was an ally of France. A few days later, Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium, which provoked a reaction from England and its entry into the conflict. Thus began the First World War. -
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Great depression
The global economic crisis that began with the collapse of the U.S. stock market and severely affected employment and the global economy is known as a wave of economic panic in the United States due to the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia-based Jay Cooke and Company bank. -
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Second World War
Through a nonaggression pact, Germany secured the neutrality of the Soviet Union, which was ruled by dictator Joseph Stalin. Germany then invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, thus beginning World War II in Europe. -
beginnings of the ONU
Four months after the conclusion of the San Francisco Conference, the United Nations officially came into existence on October 24, 1945, after the Charter was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and most other signatories. -
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The cold war
It was a period of political, economic, and military tension between two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. Although there was no direct war between the two, they did participate in indirect conflicts such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and competed in areas such as the space race and arms race. -
Birth of the Internet
The Internet began around 1969, when the U.S. Department of Defense developed ARPANET, a computer network created during the Cold War whose objective was to eliminate dependence on a central computer, thus making American military communications much less vulnerable. -
Man's arrival on the Moon
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, followed shortly after by his colleague Edwin Aldrin, left the first human footprint on the lunar surface, while the third member of the mission, Michael Collins, orbited the Moon in the command module.