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Henry Ford and the assembly line
was an American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-class -
Panama Canal
has risen from about 1,000 ships in 1914, when the canal opened, to 14,702 vessels in 2008, for a total of 333.7 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) tons -
Einsten and the theory of general relativity
is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics. -
Lenin and the decre on land
written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies on 8 November [O.S. 26 October] 1917, following the success of the October Revolution. -
The great war ends with an Armstice
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France -
Primo de Rivera, the new dictator
was a dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during Spain's Restoration era. -
The discovery of penicilin
The history of penicillin follows a number of observations and discoveries of apparent evidence of antibiotic activity in molds before the modern isolation of the chemical penicillin in 1928.The Scottish physician Alexander Fleming was the first to suggest that a Penicillium -
Hitten the new chancellorof Germany
On 30 January 1933, Europe took its first step towards the abyss when a young Austrian called Hitler became Chancellor of the new republic of Germany. Within a month he would have dictatorial powers and democracy would be dead, and a year after that he would combine the roles of President and Chancellor into a new one -
Start of the spanish civil war
was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with anarchists, of the communist and syndicalist variety, fought against a revolt by the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives and Catholics, led by a military group among whom General Francisco Franco soon achieved a preponderant role -
End of the Spanish civil war
The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975. -
The invasion of Poland
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact.
