Twentieth Century Timeline

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    1900 - 2000

  • Mass Production

    Mass Production
    The very first car on mass production was the Model T Ford which was built by Henry Ford. By 1914 the assembly process for the Model T took only 93 minutes to assemble a car.
  • Treaty Of Versailles

    Treaty Of Versailles
    Treaty of versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
  • Jazz Age

    Jazz Age
    The Jazz Age was the period in the 1920s when jazz music and dance became popular. The Jazz age was most commonly in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and other countries.
  • Invention Of Television

    Invention Of Television
    The first ever Television built was in 1925 which today is one of the most common forms of entertainment found in a everyday house.
  • Market Crash

    Market Crash
    The Wall Street Crash of 1929 began in late October and was a very devastating stock market crash. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade before World War II
  • Day Of Mourning

    Day Of Mourning
    The day of mourning was a day of protest held by the Aboriginal people.
  • Beginning Of WWII

    Beginning Of WWII
    World War II was a global war that was began in 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved mjority of the world's nations.it was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units.
  • Attack On Pearl Harbour

    Attack On Pearl Harbour
    The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • Bombing Of Darwin

    Bombing Of Darwin
    The bombing of Darwin on was both the first and the largest single attack mounted by a foreign power against Australia.
  • End Of WWII

    End Of WWII
    World War II Ended on the 29th of April 1945 after a long 6 years of world at war. It was one of the most deadliest military conflict ever with oer 60 million people killed.
  • Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima

    Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima
    During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.
  • Declaration Of Human Rights

    Declaration Of Human Rights
    The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.
  • Melbourne Olympics

    Melbourne Olympics
    The 1956 Smmer Olympics was the first time Australia has ever hosted the Summer Olympic games in Melbourne
  • Invention Of Internet

    Invention Of Internet
    The history of the Internet began with the development of computers in the 1950s.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban missile crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. In August 1962 the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba
  • Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech

    Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech
    "I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination.
  • Australian Freedom Rides

    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. Their purpose was threefold. The students planned to draw public attention to the poor state of Aboriginal health, education and housing. They hoped to point out and help to lessen the socially discriminatory barriers which existed between Aboriginal and white residents.
  • Invention Of Mobile Phones

    Invention Of Mobile Phones
    The very first call to be made from the first mobile phone was from a motorola reseacher which called his rivals Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
  • Release Of Crocodile Dundee

    Release Of Crocodile Dundee
    "Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee.
  • Fall Of Berlin Wall

    Fall Of Berlin Wall
    The fall of the Berlin Wall had begun with the building of the Wall in 1961. It took about three decades until the Wall was completely torn down.
  • United states Conventions On The Rights Of The Child

    United states Conventions On The Rights Of The Child
    is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen.