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Mass Production
The ford motor company was founded on the 16th of June, 1903 by Henry ford. This was one of the very first mass production companies of cars that the world had ever faced. After the creation of the Ford company, it lead to many other car companies being made. -
End of WWI
Also known as the Great War, was a 4 year long war that began on the 28th of July, 1914 until 11 November 1918. This was the First World War that the modern civilisation had faced causing 37 million casualties. Once the allies had defeated the opposing side, it created huge celebrations around the world that the war had ended. This war had changed the world as we knew it. -
Treaty of Versailles
Was one of the peace treaties signed at the end of the First World War. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. This treaty was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris. -
The Jazz Age
The jazz age was the age where jazz music and dance became popular in the 1920’s (ending with the great depression). Jazz music was most popular in the United States, Brittan and France. Jazz played a huge part in wider cultural changes during this period and had changed the music culture. -
Invention of Television
On March 25, 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London. This was the first example of a TV to the world. -
Market Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 or known as Black Tuesday, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the world. This economic crash was the beginning of the 10 year long Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
The Great Depression
The great depression was a worldwide economic depression in the late 1920’s until late during the Second World War. It was the longest, deepest and most widespread depression of the 20th century. Today we always look back to that era using it as an example of how far the world’s economy can decline. -
1938 Day of Mourning
The 26th of January 1938 marked the 150th anniversary of the first fleet coming to Australia. To the white people of Australia, it was a day of celebration and to reflect how far Australia had come as a Nation. To the Indigenous Australians it was referred as ‘Day of Mourning’. To them it had marked the day white people stole their land. -
Start of WWII
After WW1, Germany had to pay all other countries all the damage that was done during the war, causing Germany go into terrible economic depression. In these times the German people were looking for hope and that’s what Hitler did. He convinced his people that to get Germany to its glory was to conquer Europe to make a whole Germany Empire. It wasn’t until he attacked Poland that began the war. -
Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbour
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the 7th of December 1941. The attack was intended to stop the US fleet from interfering with the Empire of Japan. This was one of the most famous attacks during the Second World War. -
Bombing of Darwin
The bombing of Darwin was on the 19th of February 1942, was the first single attack ever on Australian mainland. The attack was led by the same Japanese leader who planned the Pearl Harbor attack 10 weeks earlier. It was aimed to destroy any naval ships from entering the war. This day killed 235 and wounding over 300 Australians. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan were conducted by the United States, leading to the end of WWII in August 1945. This was the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. This single bomb over 150, 000 people and wiped an entire city out. -
Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. 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
The 1956 Summer Olympics, was the first Olympics that not just Melbourne had hosted but Australia. These Olympics did not have any equestrian events due because they were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden. The Equestrian events could not have been held in Australia due to quarantine issues. -
Invention of the Interenet
Unlike technologies such as the light bulb or the telephone, the Internet has no single “inventor.” Instead, it has evolved over time. The Internet got its start in the United States more than 50 years ago as a government weapon in the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. The US President at the time, John F Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem. It was 13 days the world waited seemingly on the brink of a nuclear war, but it was successfully stoped. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream..." speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. It was delivered to over 250, 000 civil right supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This famous speech had led to the freedom of the black people in America and Luther King Jr. assassination. -
Australian Freedom Rides
The Freedom Ride of 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, among others, and travelled into New South Wales country towns on what some of them considered a fact-finding mission. -
Invention of the Mobile Phone
Martin Cooper was the brains behind his invention of the mobile phone. To this date, more than half the planet's population who own a mobile phone. The concept of a handheld phone was his brainchild, and with the help of his Motorola team, the first handset was born in 1973 weighing in at two kilos. -
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. Hogan's future wife Linda Kozlowski portrayed Sue Charlton. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. The public eventually were tired of being separated and on the 9th of November 1989, the wall was torn down, creating celebrations across the world. -
United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
UNICEF’s work is guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The most internationally recognised treaty on the planet, the Convention sets out the basic rights of children and the obligations of governments to fulfil those rights. his ground-breaking treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989.
