1. World Events De’Dra Smith World History 1 st period May 15,2014

2. 1900’s 1901- Queen Victoria dies 1902-Teddy bear introduced 1903- Wright brothers (first flight) 1904-ground broken on panama canal 1905-Einstein proposes his theory of relativity 1906-Finland first European country to give women the right to vote 1907-Picasso introduced cubism 1908- Henry Ford introduced the Model-T 1909-NAACP is founded

4. 1910’s 1910- Tango catches on 1911- Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom 1912-Oreo cookies first introduced 1913- Henry Ford creates first moving assembly line 1914- World War 1 starts: Archduke Ferdinand Assassination 1915- Lusitania sunk by German U-boat 1916-First self- service grocery store 1917- U.S enters WW1 1918-Spanish flu pandemic 1919– Treaty of Versailles ends WW1

6. 1920’s 1920-Harlem Renaissance begins : Women granted the right to vote in the U.S. 1921- lie detector invented 1922- insulin discovered 1923-Hitler jailed after failed coup 1924-First Olympic winter games 1925-Hitlers Mein Kampf published 1926-A.A Milne published Winnie-the-Pooh 1927-Babe Ruth makes home-run record 1928-Bubble gum invented 1929-Great Depression begins

8. 1930’s 1930-pluto discovered 1931- U.S officially gets national anthem 1932-Air conditioning invented 1933-Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany (HOLOCAUST) 1934-The Dust Bowl 1935-Germany issues the Anti-Jewish nuremburg laws 1936- Hoover dam completed 1937-Japan invades China 1938-Broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” causes panic 1939-World War 2 begins

10. 1940’s 1940- Battle of Britain 1941-Japanese attack Pearl Harbor 1942-Japanese-Americans held in camps 1943-Italy joins the allies 1944:D-Day 1945-FDR dies: End of holocaust 1946-Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech 1947-Marshall Plan 1948-Ghandi assassinated 1949-NATO established

12. 1950’s 1950-First “Peanuts” cartoon strip 1951-color television introduced 1952- Seat belts introduced 1953- DNA discovered 1954-Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S. 1955-Disney land opens 1956-Velcro introduced 1957-Cat-in-the Hat published 1958-NASA founded 1959-Sound of music opens on broadway

14. 1960’s 1960 - The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA 1961-Berlin wall built 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis 1963-JFK Assassinated 1964-Beatles become popular in the U.S 1965- Malcolm X Assassinated 1966- National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded 1967- Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1968- Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated 1969-Neil Armstrong first man on the moon

16. 1970’s 1970-Beatles Break Up 1971-VCRs Introduced 1972-WaterGate scandal begins 1973-Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion in the U.S 1974-U.S. President Nixon Resigns 1975-Microsoft Founded 1976-North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1977-Elvis found dead 1978-Jonestown massacre 1979-Iran takes American hostages in Tehran

18. 1980’s 1980-Failed U.S. attempt to save hostages in Tehran 1981-New plague identified as AIDs 1982-E.T. movie released 1983-Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars 1984-Huge poison gas leak in Bhopae,India 1985-Wreck of the Titanic found 1986-Chernobyl nuclear disaster 1987-DNA used to convict criminals 1988-U.S. shoots down Iranian airliner 1989-Berlin wall falls

20. 1990’s 1990-Nelson Mandela freed 1991-collapse of Soviet Union 1992-Official end of the Cold war 1993- World Trade center bombed 1994-Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa 1995-Sarin Gas attack in Tokyo subway 1996- mad cow disease hits Britain 1997-Princess Diana dies (car crash) 1998- The movie Titanic is a success 1999-Killing spree at Columbine High