Timeline of the Twentieth Century
Click on the decade for a detailed year-by-year timeline of that decade.
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1900-1909 Model-T, First Flight, San Francisco Earthquake, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Boxer Rebellion, First Silent Movie |
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1910-1919 World War I, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, the Titanic, Russian Revolution, Mata Hari, Prohibiton |
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1920-1929 Women's Suffrage, King Tut's Tomb, Mussolini, J. Edgar Hoover, Mein Kampf, Monkey Trial, Charles Lindbergh |
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1930-1939 Great Depression, Mohandas Gandhi, Empire State Building, Amelia Earhart, Nazis, "Monopoly," the Hindenburg |
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1940-1949 World War II, Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbor, Manhattan Project, Chuck Yeager, Berlin Airlift, Apartheid, Communist China |
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1950-1959 Hydrogen Bomb, McCarthyism, Korean War, Color TV, Polio Vaccine, Mt. Everest, Disneyland, Rosa Parks, Sputnik |
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1960-1969 JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Eichmann Trial, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Draft Protests, Charles Manson |
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1970-1979 Vietnam War, Munich Olympic Games, Watergate, Abortion, Patty Hearst, Pol Pot, Star Wars, Disco, Margaret Thatcher |
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1980-1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, Mount St. Helens, AIDS, Pac-Man, Personal Computers, Ethiopian Famine, Exxon Valdez |
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1990-1999 Internet, Nelson Mandela, Operation Desert Storm, Waco, O.J. Simpson, Oklahoma City Bombing, Princess Diana, Y2K |
Car photograph part of the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection, [08638], courtesy of The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
World War I photograph courtesy the Photos of the Great War Archive.
Women's Suffrage photograph courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-30776 DLC]
Great Depression photograph part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Collection, courtesy of the National Archives.
Adolf Hitler photograph part of the Estelle Bechoefer Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Atomic Cloud photograph courtesy of the National Archives.
Martin Luther King, Jr. photograph courtesy of the National Archives.
Vietnam photograph courtesy of the National Archives.
Gorbachev and Reagan photograph part of the Ronald Reagan Library Collection, courtesy of the National Archives.
Computer photograph taken by your About.com Guide, Jennifer Rosenberg.
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