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Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice for African Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States from 1954 to 1968 -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was fought between North and South Vietnam in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. There was no official declaration of war, but it is believed that the War began on November 1st, 1955 and ended on April 30th, 1975. -
Melbourne Olympics
The Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Victoria, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Sweden in June of the same year. Ended 8th December 1956. -
Rise of the Berlin Wall
During the early years of the Cold War, the communist East German government built the Berlin Wall overnight to divide East and West Berlin, and block refugees from attempted to leave the East. -
1967 Referendum
The 1967 referendum saw the majority of Australians vote to change our country's laws to recognize Indigenous Australians as full citizens. -
Watergate
Watergate is the term used to describe a complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974, beginning with a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. -
Shooting of John Lennon
John Lennon was a famous English musician, known for both his solo career and for being a member of the Beatles. On the 8th December 1980, he was shot dead outside his apartment in New York City by Mark David Chapman. -
Australian Bicentenary
The bicentenary of Australia marked 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet of British convict ships at Sydney in 1788. -
Emergence of the Internet/WWW
The internet has no official inventor, instead evolving from computer systems in the 1950’s. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The Dissolution of the Soviet Union, where self-governing independence was granted to the Republics of the Soviet Union, disintegrating the Soviet Union into fifteen separate countries. -
Mabo Judgement
When the English arrived in Australia, they declared the land ‘terra nullius’, or uninhabited, which meant that they could lawfully claim the land. The Mabo decision was a court case that changed Australia's concept of land ownership, and recognised Indigenous land claims. -
Sydney Olympics
The Summer Olympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales. Ended 1st October, 2000. -
9/11
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic extremist group Al Qaeda, where three hijacked planes were flown into the Twin Towers in the United States. -
Sorry Speech
The ‘Sorry Speech’ was the formal apology to the Stolen Generations by then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
