Significant Events In The 20 th Century

WWI Causes of the war Chemical warfare Weapons and tactics of the war Effects of the War on culture, society, literature, art Russian revolution

20s Changes in gender roles Great depression Prohibition Rise of organized crime Jazz age Women gain right to vote Mexican Revolution

30s Rise of fascism in Italy, Germany Japanese invasion of China, Rape of Nanking Hitler gains power Spanish Civil War Stalin comes to power, kills 10 million people 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals Colored movies début Germany invades Austria, Poland

40s WWII Allies v. Axis powers Military tactics, famous generals, weapons Dropping of the atomic bombs The Holocaust Japanese interment camps in America Communist take over of Eastern Europe Founding of the UN Creation of the state of Israel U.S. Marshall plan, European economic recovery

50s Korean War Indian independence, Gandhi teaching of non violence African independence movement Brown v. board of education. Declaring segregation in the U.S. illegal Lunch of Sputnik, space race Cuban revolution

60s Genocide in the Congo Cuban missile crisis The Beetles become popular JFK & RFK assassinated Civil rights movement Vietnam War Race riots in LA Chinese culture revolution, Mao Zedong Civil war in Nigeria MLK assassinated Man walks on the moon

70s U.S. invasion of Laos, Cambodia Watergate The Munich Olympic massacre U.S. led coup of Chile Genocide in Cambodia Apartheid in South Africa Iranian revolution Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

80s Iran v. Iraq war Fall of communism in Eastern Europe, Russia U.S. invades the island of Granada Chernobyl disaster Tiananmen square massacre