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Timeline of Democracy
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Declaration of Human Rights
The universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations after the second World War. This declaration states that every being is entitled to the basic human rights. -
Libya Declared Independent
Libya declared itself as independent and this began the post-war decolonization of Africa. -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was an uprising against the governments policies, lasting from October 23 to November 10, 1956. -
Civil Rights Act
"In 1964 Congress passed Public Law 82-352 (78 Stat. 241). The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. The word "sex" was added at the last moment."
The Civil Rights act bans discrimination against african americans and women, The article mentions the word "sex" was added in at the very last minute. If this was not added into the Civil RIghts act, then potentialy women would not have the same rights as men. -
The Prague Spring
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia. This started after World War 2 ended. -
EEOC Passed
US congress passes the EEOC act from responce to the growing womens movement. This means that work discrimination based on sex, colour, race, or level of acedemics is not prohibited. -
Helsinki Convention
Helsinki signed the declaration on Human Rights to improve relations of the Communist bloc and the West. Citizens in this state who are coloured or of the female sex are to be no longer discriminated against. -
Personal Computers
The personal computer becomes more popular and politions start using this to keep their party updated and organized. -
Glasnost Crest
Mikhail Gurbachev introduces the Glasnost and encourages the Soviet citizens to debate ways to bring about the needed reform. -
Protests in Beijing
The world marveled for weeks as Chinese university students seeking democratic reform in their communist-run country slept, ate and demonstrated in and around the heart of Beijing's Tiananmen Square. But on the infamous morning of June 4, 1989, the Chinese government unleashed its tanks and troops on the square, bringing the peaceful protests to a violent end. Though the number of people killed in the crackdown is disputed to this day, estimates of the dead vary between several hundred to severa -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
When the wall was taken down, it made the west available to the east, and Germany was re-united. -
Use of internet becomes widespread
Through an analysis of recent data on adults' and children's computer use and experiences, research revealed that the use of computers and the Internet is widespread and that significant percentages of the public are already using the Internet to get health information. -
The Soviet Union, also known as the USSR, collapsed
The Soviet Union, also known as the USSR, collapsed in December of 1991. the country disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. The main causes of this collapse were both for political and economical reasons. One of the largest causes was the economic trouble within the country. After the Cold war ended, the USSR president, Mikhail Gorbachev, hoped the money spent on weapons would strengthen the economy. -
Transition from Military Rule: Indonesia and Nigeria elect a Democratic Gov.
This election represented, for both nations a strugle to this the final electoral step in the process of transition from military rule to civilian government. Although both nations now have a voted in deocratic government, each nation will need the support of other United nations to build a soild government and to change the patterns of the past.