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TWENTIETH CENTURY
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Invention of Television
In 1884 a man named Paul Nipkow figured out how to send more than one picture through wires, and to do it he used a moving rotating disk. Then 1900 the first television was seen in the World Fair that was held in Paris, France. -
Mass production eg vehicles
In the early 1900s gasoline cars became to be mass produced and started to outsell every other types of motor vehicles. The first cars that were mass produced in the world were French, and they were Lavassor and Peugeot. -
End of WWI
The last allies pushed on the German border which began of October 17 1918. When the UK, France, and US armies advanced, all of the alliances betwenn the Central Powers fell apart. Turkey signed an armistice in October, then Austria-Hungary did the same on the 3rd of Novemeber. Germanies amries began to fail, and then German Republic was declared which signed an armisitice on Novemember 11. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace settlement that was signed in 1918 after WWI. It was signed at the Versailles Palace which is in Paris, and it was signed by Germany and the Allies. -
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period of time in the 1920s, it was when jazz music became very popular, and dancing to jazz became popular also. It mainly happened in the USA, but also did happen in parts of Britain and France. The Jazz Age is also know as the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties, as lots of people were quite rich around this time. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression that happened before WWII. The time that it happened worldwide varied but it was around from the 1930s to the 1940s. The places that were the worst were the places the relied on heavy industry. -
Market Crash of 1929
The Market Crash of 1929 happened in late October 1929 and it was one of the worst stock market crashes in history of the USA. The crash started The Great Depression and that did affect most of the world, espesically countries that relied on industry. This market crash is also known as Black Tuesday, or The Wall Street Crash of 1929. -
The Day of Mourning
On the 26th of January 1938, 100 Aboriginal men, woman and children came together in a hall in Sydney, known as the Australian Hall. They gathered at the hall because the 26th of January was a day of mourning for them, it was the day that the white invaders took Australia. -
Start of WWII
WWII was a global war that started in 1939 and ended in 1945, and it involved most of the world’s countries/nations, it ended up forming the two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries; this made WWII the most widespread war in history. Many civilians were killed, masses of them were killed in the Holocaust, the Three Alls Policy, bombing, and the first uses of nuclear weapons in warfare, an estimated 50 million to 85 -
Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbour
The Attack of Pearl Harbour was military strike done by the Imperial Japanese Navy agaisnt the USA naval base that was located at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. I was on the morning of December the 7th 1941, and this attack was what gave the USA an entry into WWII. -
Bombing of Darwin
The bombing of Darwin happened on the 19th of February 1942, it was the first and biggest ever attack on Australia by a foreign country. 242 Japanese aircraft attacked ships and boats in Darwin’s harbour and its 2 airfields to stop the Allies from using them as bases. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan were done by the United States during the end stages of World War II, and this bombing was one of the two only that were the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The war that was going on in Europe had ended when Germany surrendered, but the Pacific War had continued, which lead to the atomic bombing. -
Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was a declaration made by the United Nations General Assembly. It was done on the 10th of December 1948, and held at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration came from the Second World War, and is the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled -
Melbourne Olympics
The Summer Olympics of 1956, or the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held in Melbourne, Australia. The 1956 Olympics were the second to be not held in one country, the Melbourne Olympics were also the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, they were also the first to be held outside North America and Europe. -
Invention of Internet
The first time the idea of internet came around was in 1962 through a series of memos written by J.C.R Licklider. He concept was a "galactic network" because he thought of a set of computers which everyone could access data, programs, and websites. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day fight between the Soviet Union and Cube against the USA. The conflict is known as the closest the Cold War came to a nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis is commonly known as the October Crisis, or The Missile Scare in Cuba. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream…” speech
Martin Luther King was civil rights activist, and on August 28 1963 he gave the very well known "I Have a Dream" speech. The speech was to end the racism in the USA. The speech was delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters, and it was a defining moment in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Australian Freedom Rides
Students from the University of Sydney formed a group that was called the Student Action for Aboriginals; they travelled around NSW small country towns. The students that travelled around and protested, raised the issue of indigenous rights. -
Invention of Mobile Phone
The person to invent the mobile phone was Martin Cooper, he got help from Motorola and created the first mobile in 1973. The first mobile had a weight of two kilos. -
Release of Crocodile Dundee
In Australia, Crocodile Dundee was release on the 24th of April 1986. The movie had a budget of $8.8 million and ended up making $328,203,506 in the box office. The film ended up being the second highest grossing film worldwide at the box office. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall that was built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1962, this wall separated East and West Berlin. One of the main reasons this wall was build was to stop people from fleeing to East Berlin. The East was communist and the West was democratic. Then in 1987 President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Berlin to where he asked the Soviet Union to tear down the wall. In 1989 the Soviet Union were collasping and couldnt hold onto the East, the wall was torn down. -
United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty for children; it sets out and outlines civil, political, economic, social, health, and cultural rights that a child has (under the age of 18). Currently 194 countries that ratified, or accepted to the treaty, except Somalia, South Sudan, and the United States, but Somalia and the USA have signed to the treaty but just haven’t ratified it.
