The main events in each decade
1900
- The first flight
- Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- The first silent movie and teddy bear
- The mysterious explosion in Siberia
1910
- The first "total war" World War I
- The beginning of Prohibition
- The "unsinkable" Titanic hit an iceberg
- The Spanish flu killed millions around the world
- People got their first taste of an Oreo cookie
1920
- A time of speakeasies, short skirts, the Charleston dance and jazz music
- Great strides in Women's Suffrage
- An amazing number of cultural
- The first talking film (Babe Ruth)
- The first Mickey Mouse cartoon
1930
- The Great Depression hit the world hard
- The Nazis were able to come to power in Germany
- The disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- A wild and murderous crime (Bonnie e Clyde)
- The imprisonment of Al Capone for income tax evasion
1940
- World War II
- The Nazis established death camps
- The Cold War
- The assassination of Gandhi
- The beginning of Apartheid
1950
- The Golden Age
- Color TV was invented
- The polio vaccine was discovered
- Disneyland opened
- Elvis grated his hips on The Ed Sullivan Show
- The Cold War continued as the Space Race between the United States
- The Soviet Union began
- Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S.
- The beginning of the Civil Rights movement
1960
- The Vietnam War
- Hippies
- Drugs
- Protests
- Rock and roll
- The Berlin Wall was built
- The Soviets launched the first man into space
- President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
- The Beatles become popular
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech
1970
- The deadliest earthquake of the century
- The Jonestown massacre
- The Munich Olympics massacre
- The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
- Disco became extremely popular
- Star Wars hit theaters
1980
- The end of the Cold War
- The fall of the Berlin Wall
- The eruption of Mt
- The oil spill of the Exxon Valdez
- The Ethiopian Famine
- A huge poison gas leak in Bhopal
- The discovery of AIDS
- The introduction of the mesmerizing Rubik's Cube toy, Pac-Man video game and Michael Jackson's Thriller video
1990
- The Cold War ends
- Nelson Mandela is released from prison
- The Internet becomes popular
- The Oklahoma City bombing
- Columbine High School massacre
- The Rwandan genocide
- The first flight
- Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- The first silent movie and teddy bear
- The mysterious explosion in Siberia
1910
- The first "total war" World War I
- The beginning of Prohibition
- The "unsinkable" Titanic hit an iceberg
- The Spanish flu killed millions around the world
- People got their first taste of an Oreo cookie
1920
- A time of speakeasies, short skirts, the Charleston dance and jazz music
- Great strides in Women's Suffrage
- An amazing number of cultural
- The first talking film (Babe Ruth)
- The first Mickey Mouse cartoon
1930
- The Great Depression hit the world hard
- The Nazis were able to come to power in Germany
- The disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- A wild and murderous crime (Bonnie e Clyde)
- The imprisonment of Al Capone for income tax evasion
1940
- World War II
- The Nazis established death camps
- The Cold War
- The assassination of Gandhi
- The beginning of Apartheid
1950
- The Golden Age
- Color TV was invented
- The polio vaccine was discovered
- Disneyland opened
- Elvis grated his hips on The Ed Sullivan Show
- The Cold War continued as the Space Race between the United States
- The Soviet Union began
- Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S.
- The beginning of the Civil Rights movement
1960
- The Vietnam War
- Hippies
- Drugs
- Protests
- Rock and roll
- The Berlin Wall was built
- The Soviets launched the first man into space
- President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
- The Beatles become popular
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech
1970
- The deadliest earthquake of the century
- The Jonestown massacre
- The Munich Olympics massacre
- The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
- Disco became extremely popular
- Star Wars hit theaters
1980
- The end of the Cold War
- The fall of the Berlin Wall
- The eruption of Mt
- The oil spill of the Exxon Valdez
- The Ethiopian Famine
- A huge poison gas leak in Bhopal
- The discovery of AIDS
- The introduction of the mesmerizing Rubik's Cube toy, Pac-Man video game and Michael Jackson's Thriller video
1990
- The Cold War ends
- Nelson Mandela is released from prison
- The Internet becomes popular
- The Oklahoma City bombing
- Columbine High School massacre
- The Rwandan genocide