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- World War II. 2,254 votes. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier.
- World War I. 1,624 votes. World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war mostly centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
- The Holocaust. 3,711 votes. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
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Jun 3, 2019 · The birth of respondents’ first child were voted the most important moments in their lives, followed by purchasing first homes and getting married. The Top 50 Moments of the Past Century. 1. The ...
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- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches Fire
- The Great Migration Begins
- The Prophet Is Published
- The KKK Marches in Washington
- Thomas Dorsey Invents The Gospel Blues
- Harry Hopkins Starts Work
- Fdr Accepts The 1936 Democratic Presidential Nomination
- Hugo Black Is Appointed to The Supreme Court
- Truman Replaces Wallace
- The North Atlantic Treaty Is Signed
By Michele Anderson The Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s fire resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 150 young women and girls on March 25, 1911, in New York City. The garment workers at the company had been attempting to unionize to gain better wages and improved working conditions. The factory’s management responded by locking the workers into the bu...
By Isabel Wilkerson In today’s world African Americans are viewed as urban people, but that’s a very new phenomenon: The vast majority of time that African Americans have been on this continent, they’ve been primarily Southern and rural. That changed with the Great Migration, a mass relocation of 6 million African Americans from the Jim Crow South ...
By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen In the aftermath of World War I, the Lebanese-born, Boston-based poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote what would become one of the world’s most translated works of philosophy: The Prophet. This collection of inspirational sermons delivered by a fictional prophet—on love, marriage, work, reason, self-knowledge and ethic...
By James Loewen When the KKK paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the headline in the New York Timesdeclared “Sight Astonishes Capital: Robed, but Unmasked Hosts in White Move Along Avenue.” The marchers, the article noted, received “a warm reception.” The parade took place in broad daylight, in the nation’s capital, and most of th...
By Jon Butler In Chicago in 1932, an African American composer named Thomas A. Dorsey, who had been a nightclub jazz pianist, wrote a song inspired by his wife’s death in childbirth. The song, “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” unexpectedly became the foundation for the modern African American gospel music tradition. Its success stimulated an entirely ...
By Linda Gordon About two months after he took office, Franklin Roosevelt appointed a former social worker to head an emergency program of aid to the unemployed. The moment Harry Hopkins started work, on May 22, 1933 —before he even had an office—he dragged a desk into the hall of the building where he was located and immediately began sending out ...
By Jefferson Cowie The “political equality we once had won,” FDR boomed as he accepted the Democratic nomination for a second presidential term in 1936, had been rendered “meaningless in the face of economic inequality.” The government no longer belonged to the people but had been taken hostage by “privileged princes of these new economic dynasties...
By Akhil Reed Amar Hugo L. Black of Alabama, FDR’s first appointment to the Supreme Court, defined the American judicial scene for three and a half decades. Black first defined and then implemented a reformist agenda that would revolutionize modern American constitutional law. For his first 15 years, Black set the table with new ideas—often present...
By William Chafe The Cold War seems inevitable, but few things are. Rather, that road diverged in July of 1944, when Harry S. Truman took the place of incumbent vice-president Henry Wallace on the Democratic ticket. After World War II, President Roosevelt had a secret plan for how he would work things out with Stalin, but he died before sharing it....
By Richard Stewart The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty meant that, after intervening twice in the previous 32 years to restore peace in Europe, the U.S. was finally committed to an international alliance in peacetime, focused on preventing war in the first place. That act shaped our foreign policy, politics, military spending, military structu...
Feb 24, 2022 · February 24th, 2022. The 20th century was quite possibly the most historically significant century in human history. It was dubbed by historian Eric Hobsbawm as the ‘Era of Extremes’ and this is no surprise. Two world wars changed humanity forever, communism fought an even war on democracy and the Chinese emerged from the shadows of world ...
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- c2667-2648 BC: The first pyramid is built. Constructed around 4,700 years ago, the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara is not only the first of the Egyptian pyramids to be built, but world’s oldest intact largescale stone monument.
- 776 BC: The first Olympics are held. Although bearing little resemblance to the scale and the circus that the Olympic Games represent in the 21st century, the very first Olympics, held in the Greek sanctuary of Olympia, set the template for multisport competition for millennia to come.
- 507 BC: Democracy is conceived in Athens. If Athens is the cradle of democracy, then Kleisthenes was its midwife. Despite being born into a less-than-democratic lineage (his maternal grandfather was the tyrant Cleisthenes of Sicyon), Cleisthenes the lawgiver was the architect of a new system of government, one that valued equality over patronage.
- 27 BC – AD 180 Pax Romana: Peace reigns over the Roman Empire. The Pax Romana describes a two-century period when the early Roman Empire was largely defined by peace and stability.
Oct 21, 2020 · Exploring Twentieth-Century History. For a long time, history curricula on the 20th century prioritised the narrative of a slide from World War I to World War II and fascism above many other topics. But the history of the 20th century is both far more complicated and far more interesting than that. For the historians writing here, the century ...
May 27, 2023 · 5- 1941 — Year Of Unspeakable Tragedy And Destruction. One of the darkest years of the 20th century was 1941. It marked the beginning of some of the most devastating events of World War II. The ...
