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Significant Events of the 20th Century
The events that happened in the 20th century are some of the most intriguing events in all of history and quite possibly some of the most horrific events took place in this century -
Queen Victoria dies after a 63-year reign over England
Queen Victoria died on 21 January 1901 at the age of 81. She had been the Queen of Great Britain for 63 years. -
First Airplane Takes Flight
Orville Wright took the Airplane he and his brother made for a 12-second, sustained flight on December 17, 1903. This was the first successful, powered, piloted flight in history -
World War One Breaks out
World War One started after the duke of Austria Was assassinated -
World War One comes to an end
German offensive along the western front, United States forces entered the trenches and the Allies drove back the German armies in a series of successful offensives. Germany, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries at this point, agreed to a cease-fire on 11 November 1918, later known as Armistice Day. The war had ended in victory for the Allies. -
Wall street crash triggers great depression
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 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. -
World War II breaks out
The world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire -
World War II ends
The war ended with the total victory of the Allies over the Axis in 1945. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, against north Vietnam who was supported by its communist allies -
Cuban Missile Crisis brings world to brink of Nuclear War
the Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other in October 1962, during the Cold War. -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans on Earth's Moon -
Vietnam War Ends
The fall of Saigon lead to the end of the Vietnam War -
Tiananmen Square massacre
Several hundred civilians have been shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic protest in Peking's (Beijing) Tiananmen Square. -
Berlin Wall collapses
The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. Its destruction, which was nearly as instantaneous as its creation, was celebrated around the world. -
US launches operation desert storm in Iraq
On the morning of August 2, 1990 the mechanized infantry, armor, and tank units of the Iraqi Republican Guard invaded Kuwait and seized control of that country. The invasion triggered a United States response, Operation DESERT SHIELD, to deter any invasion of Kuwait's neighbor, Saudi Arabia. -
United Nations forms, replacing League of Nations
The League of Nations (LON) was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War