20th century timeline

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The treaty of Versailles was held after the World War one in 1918 and the goal was to get peace. It was held in the Versailles palace because it was one of the best venues only because it was big.
  • End of WW1

    End of WW1
    World war 1 ended in 1918 and this happend as many countries defeated other countries such as Germany beating Russia and that caused Russia to leave the war in 1917. On the 11th of November 1918 Germany and America held a meeting to agreeing to ending the war and thats how the war was ended.
  • Invention of television

    The television got invented in the 1920's and the first electronic tv was first invented in 1927 in San Fransico by a man called Philo Farnsworth.
  • The Jazz Age

    The Jazz Age
    The jazz age was when Jazz got popular exspecially for the African and American's
  • Market Crash of 1929

    The market completley crashed making little bussinesses and money and that was in 1929 of October the 29th and it was also a big part of the great depression.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    The great depression was caused by an overly-confident, over-extended stock market and a drought that struck the South. It lasted from 1929 till around the 1940's.
  • 1938 Day of Mourning

    1939 day of mourning was the 150th anniversary of the first landing in australia of the first fleet
  • Start of WWII

    when Germany attacked Poland in 1939, other european countries felt as if they had to help out and attack the oppostion. Adold Hitler was also a big reason for why ww2 started because he did want more land.
  • Invention of mobile phone

    Mobile phones got inveted in 1940's but it wasnt until 1980's till they became avaliable in many places.
  • Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbor

    Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbor
    The japanesse attack of pearl harbour took place at a U.S naval base at pearl harbour in Hawaii. This happend during WW2 and that brang those two countries into WW2. America declared war on them as the Japanesse killed 2,400 Americans in the bombings.
  • Bombing of Darwin

    Bombing of Darwin
    The bombing of darwin was the first ever bombing to happen in Australia which was by the Japanesse that took place in Darwin, which they had destroyed a military base and killed 243 people/
  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
    The Atomic Bombing of Hirosima happend during WW2 as an American bomber dropped an attomic bomc on the city of Hiroshima and that killed around 80,000 people straight away.
  • Declaration of Human Rights

    Declaration of Human Rights
    The decleration of Human right is the international traty which states the basic rights and fundamental freedoms to all uman beings.
  • Invention of the internet

  • Melbourne Olympics

    Melbourne Olympics
    Melbourne Olympics was the first ever Australian olympics and was held in 1956
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Soviet Union were threatning Cuba with misiles so America got threatnend as Cuba isnt that far, and if the Soviet Union kept on putting misiles there would have been a war.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream…” speech

    Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream…” speech
    Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream…” speech was said to a crowd of 250,000 over demanding justice to all american citizens about racism and wanted all of it to stop as racism was really bad back in those days and his dream was to stop all of it.
  • Australian Freedom Rides

    The Australian Freedom rides was about a group of Students from the University of Sydney that had organised a bus tourn alond the western and coastal New South Wales towns to make the pblic realise the poor, eduation and the housing of Aborinals. this made awarness of racismn and discrimination.
  • Release of Crocodile Dundee

    Release of Crocodile Dundee
    It got realsed in Australia on the 24th of April 1986 and got realsed in America on the 26 of September. Worldwidely they earnt 360,000,000 dollars and with 70 million dollars worth of rentals.
  • Fall of berlin wall

    Fall of berlin wall
    The fall of the berlin wall happend at midnight when the opening of the gates happend the west and east berliners crowded the wall, they all used any weapons they could to start chiping and hitting out chunks of the wall suck as hamers and axes etc soon enough the cranes and bulldozers pulled it down and berlin was united as one.
  • United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child

    The UNCR (United Nations Conventions on the RIghts of the Child) is the world wide human rights treaty which grants all children and young people under 18,ccivil, social, political and cultural rights.
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

    • The Invention of the Internet — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. 2014. The Invention of the Internet — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.history.com/topics/invention-of-the-internet. [Accessed 04 February 2014].
    • World War I ends — History.com This Day in History — 11/11/1918. 2014. World War I ends — History.com This Day in History — 11/11/1918. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-comes