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- 20th Century Timeline – 1899-1902: The Second Boer War. (See Main Article: The Great Rapprochement) The Second Boer War (1899-1902) was a costly victory for the British of Boer forces in South Africa.
- 1909: The Wright Brothers And The Airplane. (See Main Article: Wright Brothers, Wrong Story? Why Some Say Wilbur—Not Orville—Discovered Manned Flight) How did two brothers who never left home, were high-school dropouts, and made a living as bicycle mechanics figure out the secret of manned flight?
- 1912: Titanic. (See Main Article: The Titanic: Passengers, Crew, Sinking, and Survivors) The Titanic was a luxury vessel and the largest moveable man-made object of its time.
- 20th Century Timeline – 1914: World War One Begins. (See Main Article: World War 1: A Comprehensive Overview of the Great War) The reason for America to become involved in WW1 was Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare, which had already sunk several American merchant ships.
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- The 1900s. This decade opened the century with some amazing scientific and technological feats: the first flight by the Wright brothers, Henry Ford's first Model-T, and Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
- The 1910s. This decade was dominated by the first "total war"—World War I. It also saw other huge changes during the Russian Revolution and the beginning of Prohibition in the United States.
- The 1920s. The Roaring '20s were a time of a booming stock market, speakeasies, short skirts, the Charleston, and jazz. The '20s also showed great strides in women's suffrage—women got the vote in 1920.
- The 1930s. The Great Depression hit the world hard in the 1930s. The Nazis took advantage of this situation and came to power in Germany, established their first concentration camp, and began a systematic persecution of Jews in Europe.
- The Second Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902.
- The First World War, 1914–1918.
- The Russian Civil War, 1917–1922.
- The Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921.
This is also called the Anschluss. World War II. 1939 September 1 - Germany invades Poland. World War II begins. 1939 September 3 - France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. 1940 April 9 to June 9 - Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway. 1940 May 10 to June 22 - Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning ...
September 1: The Great Kantō earthquake kills at least 105,000 people in Japan. October 11: Turkish War of Independence ends; Ankara replaces Istanbul as its capital. October 16: The Walt Disney Company is founded. October 29: Kemal Atatürk becomes the first President of the newly established Republic of Turkey.
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September. 1. Germany invades Poland, starting war. 3. Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany. 8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Emergency Proclamation, authorizing expansion of Army and National Guard. 10. Canada declares war on Germany.
In 1943, the war year of peak employment in the United States, an additional 12,601,000 people worked in the basic war industries. In many other countries most of the workers had war jobs. The world lost years of peacetime production from all these people. This expense to industry did not stop with the end of the war.
