World EventsDe’Dra Smith

World History

1st period

May 15,2014

1900’s• 1901- Queen Victoria dies

• 1902-Teddy bear introduced

• 1903- Wright brothers (first flight)

• 1904-ground broken on panama canal

• 1905-Einstein proposes his theory of relativity

• 1906-Finland first European country to give women the right

to vote

• 1907-Picasso introduced cubism

• 1908- Henry Ford introduced the Model-T

• 1909-NAACP is founded

1910’s• 1910- Tango catches on

• 1911- Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom

• 1912-Oreo cookies first introduced

• 1913- Henry Ford creates first moving assembly line

• 1914- World War 1 starts: Archduke Ferdinand

Assassination

• 1915- Lusitania sunk by German U-boat

• 1916-First self- service grocery store

• 1917- U.S enters WW1

• 1918-Spanish flu pandemic

• 1919– Treaty of Versailles ends WW1

1920’s• 1920-Harlem Renaissance begins : Women granted

the right to vote in the U.S.

• 1921- lie detector invented

• 1922- insulin discovered

• 1923-Hitler jailed after failed coup

• 1924-First Olympic winter games

• 1925-Hitlers Mein Kampf published

• 1926-A.A Milne published Winnie-the-Pooh

• 1927-Babe Ruth makes home-run record

• 1928-Bubble gum invented

• 1929-Great Depression begins

1930’s• 1930-pluto discovered

• 1931- U.S officially gets national anthem

• 1932-Air conditioning invented

• 1933-Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

(HOLOCAUST)

• 1934-The Dust Bowl

• 1935-Germany issues the Anti-Jewish nuremburg laws

• 1936- Hoover dam completed

• 1937-Japan invades China

• 1938-Broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” causes panic

• 1939-World War 2 begins

1940’s• 1940- Battle of Britain

• 1941-Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

• 1942-Japanese-Americans held in camps

• 1943-Italy joins the allies

• 1944:D-Day

• 1945-FDR dies: End of holocaust

• 1946-Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech

• 1947-Marshall Plan

• 1948-Ghandi assassinated

• 1949-NATO established

1950’s• 1950-First “Peanuts” cartoon strip

• 1951-color television introduced

• 1952- Seat belts introduced

• 1953- DNA discovered

• 1954-Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S.

• 1955-Disney land opens

• 1956-Velcro introduced

• 1957-Cat-in-the Hat published

• 1958-NASA founded

• 1959-Sound of music opens on broadway

1960’s

• 1960-The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA

• 1961-Berlin wall built

• 1962-Cuban Missile Crisis

• 1963-JFK Assassinated

• 1964-Beatles become popular in the U.S

• 1965-Malcolm X Assassinated

• 1966-National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded

• 1967-Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

• 1968- Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

• 1969-Neil Armstrong first man on the moon

1970’s• 1970-Beatles Break Up

• 1971-VCRs Introduced

• 1972-WaterGate scandal begins

• 1973-Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion in the U.S

• 1974-U.S. President Nixon Resigns

• 1975-Microsoft Founded

• 1976-North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist

Republic of Vietnam

• 1977-Elvis found dead

• 1978-Jonestown massacre

• 1979-Iran takes American hostages in Tehran

1980’s• 1980-Failed U.S. attempt to save hostages in Tehran

• 1981-New plague identified as AIDs

• 1982-E.T. movie released

• 1983-Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars

• 1984-Huge poison gas leak in Bhopae,India

• 1985-Wreck of the Titanic found

• 1986-Chernobyl nuclear disaster

• 1987-DNA used to convict criminals

• 1988-U.S. shoots down Iranian airliner

• 1989-Berlin wall falls

1990’s• 1990-Nelson Mandela freed

• 1991-collapse of Soviet Union

• 1992-Official end of the Cold war

• 1993- World Trade center bombed

• 1994-Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa

• 1995-Sarin Gas attack in Tokyo subway

• 1996- mad cow disease hits Britain

• 1997-Princess Diana dies (car crash)

• 1998- The movie Titanic is a success

• 1999-Killing spree at Columbine High