TWENTIETH CENTURY TIMELINE

By Sam_Luck
  • Period: to

    Mass production eg vehicles

  • End of WWI

    The final Allied push towards the German border began on October 17, 1918. As the British, French and American armies advanced, the alliance between the Central Powers began to collapse. Turkey signed an armistice at the end of October, Austria-Hungary followed on November 3. Armistice - The End of World War I, 1918. 2014. Armistice - The End of World War I, 1918. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/armistice.htm. [Accessed 31 July 2014].

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Germany and the Allies signed a peace treaty at the end of World War I. The United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy negotiated the treaty at the Peace Conference held in Versaille beginning on January 18, 1919. The German Republic government which replaced the imperial administration was excluded from the deliberations. Definition of Treaty of Versailles. 2014. Definition of Treaty of Versailles. [ONLINE] Available at: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/DEFN/versail.htm. [Accessed 31

  • The Jazz Age

  • Invention of television

    Televisions in 1920’s had no colour so they all had black and white screening but it was all still popular with certain countries.
    Quote- Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

  • Great Depression

  • Market Crash of 1929

    Crash of 1929, stock market definition. An enormous decrease in stock prices on the stock exchanges of Wall Street in late October 1929. This crash began the Great Depression. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
    Crash of 1929, stock market | Define Crash of 1929, stock market at Dictionary.com . 2014. Crash of 1929, stock market | Define Crash of 1929, stock market at Dictionary.com . [ONLINE] Available at: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crash+of+1929,+stock+market. [Accessed 31 July

  • 1938 Day of Mourning

  • Start of WWII

  • Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbour-

  • Bombing of Darwin

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

  • Declaration of Human Rights

  • Melbourne Olympics

  • Invention of the internet

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream…” speech

  • Australian Freedom Rides

  • Invention of mobile phone

  • Release of Crocodile Dundee

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child- signed