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Mass Production
Mass production started after the world war when people where wanting to buy cars “Model T”, The price of the “Model T” went from $863 to $296 in 1924 -
End of WW1
The end of the war was on the 11th of November when Germany signed a peace agreement with the allies. The reason that they signed it was because they were on the verge of collapse. -
Treaty of versailles
The Treat of Versailles is a peace agreement signed after world war 1 had ended. some of the major people that signed this where David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson. -
Invention of the television
The invention of the television in the 1920’s was a choice, Did you want a metal television with rotating discs or a electric Television with a ray tube. The electric televisions worked better and eventually out sold the mechanical ones. -
The Jazz Age
This is a decade where dance and jazz music really took off. This mainly happened in the U.S.A. Due to the massive amounts of people listening to jazz a lot of jazz radio stations popped up. -
Market Crash
Due to the amount of people that where buying stock they ended up buying more stocks that the products that were being made which caused the market to crash. -
Day of Mourning
On this day the first fleet landed in Australia. The reason that it is called the”Day of mourning” because it is the day that the white people took over Australia. -
Start of WWII
World War II started on the 1st of September 1939. This war last 6 years and one day. Thanks to the outcome of this war, The Italy and Japanese empires fell and started the cold war. -
Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbour
On December 17th the japenese did a surprise attack on pearl harbour which is a port where a lot of American ships and planes were. This influenced the atomic bomb being dropped on Japan. -
Bombing of Darwin
On February 19th the Japanese used some of its forces to bomb Darwin. They did two air raids on Darwin. In the two raid approximately 243 people died. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, The U.S.A used the first Atomic bomb on Japan. The amount of explosive used made the explosion equivalent to 20,000 tons of T.N.T. “The appearance of people was . . . well, they all had skin blackened by burns. . . . They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn't tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back.” -
Declaration of human rights
The human rights law was adopted in 1948 by the UDHR. It represents the universal recognition that basic rights and fundamental freedoms are inherent to all human beings. -
Melbourne Olympics
This was the first time that Australia had hosted the Olympics. It was also the first Olympic Games held outside of the U.S. and Europe. -
Invention of the internet
The first people to use and make a fully functioning switchboard was the US Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency in early 1960’s. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S. government sent a spy plane over the soviet Russia and got photos of a nuclear missile sight being built on the soviet island of Cuba. This almost caused a nuclear war. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream…” speech
“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.”
- Martin Luther
This was a part of a speech from a black right activist who gave this speech but was soon after assassinated. -
Australia freedom rides
During the month of February a group of university students took a bus trip around the west side of Australia trying to show the poor condition of the aboriginal people. -
Invention of mobile phone
On april 3rd 1973 Martin Cooper made the call to his competitor at AT&T which started the market to start making phones for the people and not for the home.
"People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire. It is that freedom we sought to vividly demonstrate in 1973," said Martin Cooper. -
Release of Crocodile Dundee
This is a movie about an American reporter going inside the life of an Australian. This movie gave a stereotypic inside to what all Australians are like. -
Fall of the berlin
The berlin wall was opened on the 9th of November to mark the end of the war. The wall put up to divide east Germany and west Germany. One side of the berlin wall has graffite on it and the other side is white. -
