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Twentieth Centuary Timeline
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End of WWI
EyewitnessThe 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month was when the war was officially over this day, after 4 years of bloody conflict it was finally over. -
Treaty of Versalles
History Learning Site- Treaty of VersallesThis was to show that the German forces had surrendered to the allied powers. -
The Jazz Age
Cornell University- Jazz AgeThe jazz age was a very confident kcik back and enjoy age. This age was also very dangerous for musicians because the Nazi's killed a band just for playing music. -
Market Crash
About.com-Market CrashThe walls street market crash of 1929 also known as Black Thursday was the day the stock prices plummeted. In the months leading up to the market crash, there was numerous mini-crashes but they were small enough to ignore. On this day people gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange on Walls Street, Stunned. -
Aboriginal Day of Mourning
SqwirkSkwirkThis date is very important to all Australians because it is the day we looked back on our success in the history of Australia. The Aboriginals call this 'Day of Mourning' because this is the day the Aboriginals look back on their relatives who have died due do misstreatment by the White People. -
Start of WWII
About.com-Start of WWIIThe start of WWII began what was a very bloody time with nearly 1,000,000,000 deaths from both sides allies and axis. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour
History- Pearl HarbourThe japanese launched a suprise air attack going after the naval base in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. These were the events which caused the USA to enter WWII. -
Bombing of Darwin
naa- Bombing of DarwinJapanese Forces at 10am on the 19th February 1942 launched 2 raids on Darwin. This attack was led by the same commander as the attack on pearl harbour ten weeks earlier. The 2 raids killed at least 243 people. -
Melbourne Olympics
Australian Olympic Committee-Melbourne OlympicsThe Melbourne olympics games were not only a major boost in Australian sports but in the olympic games it self, the Melbourne olympics were the first time the Olympics had ever been out of Europe of the United States. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
History- Cuban Missile CrisisThe cuban missile crisis was was a political and military standoff between the leaders of the U.S. president John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. To avoid this disaster leaders of the U.S. agreed to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream speech
American Hetoric- I have a dreamMartin Luther King Jr. in washington D.C was the stop do the misstreatment of the African Americans. -
Australian Freedom Rides
National Museum Australia-Indigenous RightsThe university of Sydney organised a bus tour of NSW costal towns. The purpose was to draw public attention to the poor state and health of the Aboriginal people. -
Release of Crocdile Dundee
IMDB moviesCrocodile Dundee starring Paul Hogan. It is about a Crocodile poacher who has 0 experience in the city travels to New York with a reporter. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
History-Berlin WallThe government of Germany in 1961 built a wall dividing the East and the West, the desicion for the wall to be knocked down was by the German Democratic Republic said the people of Germany should be able to go on what ever side they want.
