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End of world War I
World War I as a declared state of war lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918.
After a decade of unstable alliances and military buildups, World War I was triggered in 1914 by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. It ended in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles. -
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Also known as the Treaty of peace in English. -
Invention of Television
Philo Farnsworth was a 14y.o student when he came up with the idea that an electron beam could scan pictures back and forth and transmit them to remote screens. Whle such an invention could not be the work of one man alone, John Logie Baird and Vladimir Zworykin helped. -
Wall Street Market crash of 1929
Also known as the Great Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. he crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade after World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression in the 20th century. -
Day of Mourning
The Day of Mourning was a day of protest held by Aboriginal Australians. the rememberance of British colonisation of Australia. It was declared to be a protest of 150 years of callous treatment and the seizure of land, and was designed to stand in contrast to the Australia Day celebrations held by the European population on the same day. -
Start of World War II
World War II, or the Second World War was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved majority of the world's nations ncluding all of the great powers. eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units. -
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was the period roughly through the 1920s, ending the The Great Depression, when jazz music and dance became popular. This occurred particularly in the United States, but also in the United Kingdom, France, and other countries. Jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes during the period, and its influence on pop culture continued long afterwards. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions The Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Bombing of Darwin
The bombing of Darwin was both the first and the largest single attack mounted by a foreign power against Australia. On this day, 242 Japanese aircraft attacked ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, A group of countries that had alredy been attacked or directly threatened formed and army. (The Allies) They 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
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. It consists of 30 articles which have been elaborated in national constitutions and laws. -
Melbourne Olympics
The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations. -
Cuban Missile crisis
The Cubin missile crisis 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. This all begun in August 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United States. -
Martin Luther King Jr speech
"I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. He called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech ws a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, -
Australian Freedom Rides
Students from the University of Sydney commonly stood protesting for hours at popular areas such as pools, parks and pubs, raising the issue of Infigenous rights. Australia passed a 1967 referendum removing discriminatory sections from the Australian Constitution and enabling the federal government to take direct action in Aboriginal affairs. -
Invention of internet
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. For years, scientists and researchers used it to communicate and share data with one another. The first website was made by Sir Tim Berners Lee in 1991. -
First Mobile Phone
Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher is considered to be the inventor of the first practical mobile phone for handheld use. After a long race against Bell Labs for the first portable mobile phone. Using a modern, somewhat heavy portable handset, Cooper made the first call on a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973 to his rival, Dr. Joel Engel. -
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 and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton. Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September 1986 in the United States, it was the second-highest-grossing film in the United States in that year. -
Fall of the Berlin wall
Berlin had been politically divided since the end of World War II.The two parts of the city were physically divided in 1961 with the construction of the Berlin Wall, the most visible expression of the Cold War. When the Berlin Wall was opened on November 9, 1989 it marked for many the symbolic end of that war. -
United Nations Convention: Rights of a Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention generally defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen.
