History Events (XX-XXI)

  • World War 1

    Also called Great War was an international conflict that lasted from 1914-1918. It envolved the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) against the Allies France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and in 1917, the United States.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    Worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began when the stock market crashed on October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors
  • World War II

    Military conflict between the Allies (France, Poland, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, China and U.S.A.) and the Axis Powers (Germany, Japan, and the Kingdom of Italy).
  • Death of Martin Luther King

    The author of "I Have a Dream" was shot dead while being on a balcony in an hotel in Tennessee.
  • Fall of the Wall of Berlin

    Fall of the Wall of Berlin
    The wall that separated the two capitalist and communist blocks in Germany fell down after 28 years.
  • 9/11

    On 9 of september, 2001 four airplanes were hijacked and carried out suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
  • Barack Obama becomes president

    Barack Obama becomes president
    Barack Obama becomes the first black president of the United States
  • Michael Jackson's Death

    Michael Jackson died with the official cause of death named as propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication.
  • Full face transplant

    The first spanish pacient was a 30-year-old male with a severe facial deformity caused by a ballistic trauma in 2005.
  • 43 students went missing in México

    43 students were abducted from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College and disappered in Iguala.