twentieth century timeline

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  • End WWI – 1918:

    End WWI – 1918:
    End WWI – 1918: The end of World War 1 was after a long battle between two separate forces. The war finished after several Treaties were signed
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    Treaty of Versailles – 1919: This Treaty was the biggest known treaty that was signed at the end of World War 2. signed Between England, France and Germany.
  • Jazz age

    Jazz age
    Jazz age – 1920: The Jazz age was just after World War 1. There was an outbreak of someone trying something new with Jazz music and then everyone was dancing and listening to Jazz Music.
  • Mass production of Model T Ford – 1927

    Mass production of Model T Ford – 1927
    Mass production of Model T Ford – 1927: The Mass production of the Model T Ford was the start of one of the greatest inventions of all time. This being the Assembly Line which is now used to make bulks of items very quickly and cheaply.
  • Great Depression – 1929

    Great Depression – 1929
    Great Depression – 1929: The Great Depression started for two main reasons these being low amounts of food still after World War 1 and the other bigger reason was because of the Market Crash. The market crash made everything more expensive
  • Market crash – 1929

    Market crash – 1929
    Market crash – 1929: The Market crash was a time where the value of everything was up in the air and no one knew what was truly happening
  • Day of mourning – 1938

    Day of mourning – 1938
    Day of mourning – 1938: This was the day that the Aboriginal Australian’s had their first Civil rights meaning which meant that Aboriginal people where nearly at the same standard as European Australian’s
  • Start of WW2 – 1939

    Start of WW2 – 1939
    Start of WW2 – 1939: World War 2 would be one of the most tragic years with so many people losing their life. The war started with Germany invading Poland
  • Japanese attack of pearl harbour – 1941

    Japanese attack of pearl harbour – 1941
    Japanese attack of pearl harbour – 1941: This was a surprise that only the Japanese knew about and caught a majority of the other countries by surprise. There was over 2000 American’s killed and over 1000 wounded and over 180 aircrafts were destroyed
  • Bombing of Darwin – 1942

    Bombing of Darwin – 1942
    Bombing of Darwin – 1942 The bombing of Darwin - on 19 February 1942 was both the first and the largest single attack mounted by a foreign power against Australia. On this day, 242 Japanese aircraft
  • Atomic bomb of Hiroshima - 1945

    Atomic bomb of Hiroshima - 1945
    Atomic bomb of Hiroshima – 1945 World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic 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 – 1948

    Declaration of Human rights – 1948
    Declaration of Human rights – 1948 - Human rights are commonly understood as "inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being.
  • Invention of television – 1956

    Invention of television – 1956
    Invention of television – 1956 The history of television records the work of numerous engineers and inventors in several countries over many decades. The fundamental principles of television were initially developed using electromechanical methods to scan, transmit and reproduce an image.
  • United nations conventions on the rights of the child – 1959

    United nations conventions on the rights of the child – 1959
    United nations conventions on the rights of the child – 1959 - The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is the name given to a series of related children's rights proclamations drafted by Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb
  • Cuban missile crisis – 1962

    Cuban missile crisis – 1962
    Cuban missile crisis – 1962 - The Cuban missile crisis, – known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis in the USSR – was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War
  • Martin Luther King Jr “I have a dream” speech – 1963

    Martin Luther King Jr “I have a dream” speech – 1963
    Martin Luther King Jr “I have a dream” speech – 1963 - "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
  • Invention of internet – 1965

    Invention of internet – 1965
    Invention of internet – 1965 - The history of the Internet began with the development of computers in the 1950s. This began with point-to-point communication between mainframe computers and terminals, expanded to point-to-point connections between computers and then early research into packet switching
  • Australian freedom rights – 1965

    Australian freedom rights – 1965
    Australian freedom rights – 1965 - The Freedom Ride of 1964 and 1965 was a significant event in the history of civil rights for Indigenous Australians.Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the American Civil Rights Movement, students from the University of Sydney formed a group called the Student Action for Aboriginals, led by Charles Perkins
  • Melbourne Olympics – 1956 -

    Melbourne Olympics – 1956 -
    Melbourne Olympics – 1956 - The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956
  • Invention of mobile phones – 1973

    Invention of mobile phones – 1973
    Invention of mobile phones – 1973 - Radiophones have a long and varied history going back to Reginald Fessenden's invention and shore-to-ship demonstration of radio telephony, through the Second World War with military use of radio telephone links and civil services in the 1950s
  • Crocodile Dundee – 1986

    Crocodile Dundee – 1986
    Crocodile Dundee – 1986 - "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 and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton
  • Berlin wall – 1989

    Berlin wall – 1989
    Berlin wall – 1989 - The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin..
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