Important
Events
- Choose an event and tell about its importance and influence on the
world.
- In other words, justify the event's placement on a list of very
important events.
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- WORLD HISTORY EVENTS
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- US bombing Hiroshima &
Nagasaki
- Japan surrendering to end World
War II
- First
human to walk on the moon
- Bombing
of Pearl Harbor
- Nazi
Holocaust
- Beginning
of World War I
- Dissolution
of USSR
- Beginning
of World War II
- Communist
take-over of Russia
- Growth
of the Nazi party
- D-Day
as beginning of the end of World War II
- Establishment
of the Peoples Republic of China
- Charles
Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic
- Cuban
Missile Crisis
- Sinking
of the titanic
- Germany’s
surrender in World War II
- World
War I ending with German’s defeat
- Apartheid
ending in South Africa in 1993
- Statehood
of Israel in 1948
- The
Beatles
- US
troops arrive in South Vietnam, 1965
- North
Vietnamese forces taking over Saigon
- Establishment
of the United Nations
- Building
of the wall between East and West Berlin
- Mohandas
Gandhi and nonviolent reform
- North
Atlantic Treaty Organization established
- Stalin
forces modernization of Soviet Union
- Mikhail
Gorbachev and “Glasnost”
- Opening
of Panama Canal
- China’s “Great Leap
Forward,” a modernization program
- US
entry into World War I, 1917
- Gulf
of Tonkin resolution
- “Kristallnacht”
launched by Hitler
- Churchill
named as Great Britain’s prime minister
- Soviet
blockade of West Berlin, 1948
- Chernobyl
nuclear plant explosion
-
Chinese
"Boxers" Rebel (1900)
UNITED STATES HISTORY EVENTS
- Wright
brothers and the first powered airplane
- Women
winning the vote
- Assassination
of President Kennedy
- Brown
v Board of Education
ending school
segregation
- Stock
market crash
- Assassination
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s New Deal
- Civil
Rights Act outlawing segregation
- Jackie
Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier
- Rosa
Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white person
- Testing
of atomic bomb in New Mexico
- Civil
Rights march on Washington
- Impeachment
of President Clinton
- The
Marshall Plan
- Assassination
of Robert Kennedy
- Environmental
concerns stimulated by Rachel
Carson’s book Silent Spring
- Voting
Rights Act of 1965
- Manhattan
Project
- GI
Bill of Rights, 1945
- Alan
Shepard, first American in space, 1961
- Watergate
scandal
- San
Francisco earthquake, 1906
- Standard
Oil losing antitrust suit, 1911
- US
withdrawal of ground troops from Vietnam
- Franklin
D. Roosevelt beats Herbert Hoover
- Interstate
highway bill
- Betty
Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
- Explosion
of Space Shuttle Challenger
- US
troops send to defend South Korea, 1950
- Violence
at Democratic national Convention in
Chicago, 1968
- Babe
Ruth’s record of 60 home runs
- John
Glen orbiting the Earth
- Scopes’
trial
- Founding
of the International Workers of the
World (1905)
- Founding
of the NAACP (1909)
- Triangle
Shirtwaist Company fire (1911)
- Time
magazine hits the news stands (1923)
- The
"dirty 30s"
- The
Beatles perform in the US (1964)
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- SCIENTIFIC,
TECHNOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL EVENTS
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- Alexander
Fleming’s discovery of the first
antibiotic
- Discovery
of the structure of DNA
- First
assembly line to produce Model T cars
- Launch
of Sputnik
- Einstein’s
theory of relativity
- Approval
of the birth control pill
- Development
of polio vaccine
- AIDS
is identified
- Invention
of television
- Development
of the Internet
- Invention
of the transistor
- Roe
v Wade
legalizing abortion
- Radio
broadcasting
- Worldwide
flu epidemic of 1918
- Television
broadcasting
- Invention
of plastic
- Computer
chips
- Radio
signals transmitted across Atlantic
- Yuri
Gagarin, first man in space
- First
jet airplane flight
- Max
Planck’s quantum theory of energy
- Cloning
of sheep in Great Britain
- Sigmund
Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams
- Pathfinder
landing on Mars
- Louise
Brown, test-tube baby
- Beginning
of Microsoft Corporation.
- Warning
of relation of smoking to health hazards
in 1964
- Wright
Brothers fly the first airplane (1903)
- Passage
of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
- Invention
of plastic (1909)
- Henry
Ford's introduction of the modern
factory (1913)
- Flu
epidemic (1918)
- Lindbergh's
solo flight over the Atlantic (1927)
- Discovery
of penicillin (1928)
- Discovery
of DNA (1944)
- Invention
of the computer (1946)
- Introduction
of the credit card (1950)
- Invention
of the birth control pill (1960)
- The
launching of the Internet (1969)
- Women's
right to abortion (1973)
- First
"test-tube" baby (1978)