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Mass production is the production of large amounts of products such as cars, planes, jets, etc.
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The treaty of Versailles was signed after World War 1 to keep all peace. It was signed in Paris in the city Versailles.
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Germany finally accepted to sign the armistice to stop the Great War. The armistice is a document which every country involved in the war had to sign to stop the war.
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The jazz age was a period in time where everybody seemed to have money. Also young people started to have out of control hairstyles and behaviour.
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When the television was first released it was one of the most popular inventions made in the world as it provides entertainment.
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The forst ever television was called the "Phonovision" and was invented by John Logie with the help of some scientists discoveries before him.
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An American spy plane found and took photos of a nuclear missile base put up by the soviets of Cuba.
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Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in one day.
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The Great Depression was a date in time where nobody had a job which meant that everywhere people were poor. For this reason the government got involved with society and the economy.
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The Day of Mourning was a day of protest held by Indigenous Australians to stop all the racism that was occuring back in those days. The Indigenous Australians wanted to have rights aswell.
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The attack on Pearl Harbour was a surprise military attack on the US, Hawaii which led to the US joining World War 2.
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Darwin was hit by a Japanese aircraft exploding oil storage tanks making lots of smoke when all tanks exploded together.
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The US bombed Japan with a massive missile killing tens of thousands of civillians. This bomb was the equilavent of 20,000 tons of TNT which flattened the city of Hiroshima.
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The declaration of human rights is a document signed after the Second World War. The document states basic rights and also fundamental for humans.
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The Melbourne olympics was officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad. All the events could not be held in Melbourne due to quarentine restrictions.
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Martin Luther King wrote a speech in the middle of a protest for dark skinned people in US about stopping all racism in the United States.
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A group of univercity students in Sydney organised a bus tour for poor Indigenous towns in western and costal areas of New South Whales.
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Crocodile Dundee was a successful Australian film taken in The Australian outback and in New York City. The movie starred Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee.
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The first ever mobile phone was sent out by motorola which weighted to around 2.2 pounds.
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World leaders decided that children needed their own set of right due to that fact that people under 18 often needed taking care of.