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Jul 24, 2024 · This century witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Holocaust in Europe, the Cold War, revolutionary social equality movements, and the exploration of space. Get the details in this decade-by-decade timeline of the 20th century.
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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...
- World War I (1914-1918) World War I, spanning from 1914 to 1918, was the inaugural global conflict of the 20th century, leaving an indelible mark on world history.
- Russian Revolution (1917) The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, spearheaded by Vladimir Lenin, gave rise to the world’s first communist state, the Soviet Union.
- Great Depression (1929-1939) The Wall Street Crash of 1929, a pivotal event in financial history, precipitated the Great Depression, a global economic crisis lasting throughout the 1930s.
- World War II (1939-1945) World War II, spanning from 1939 to 1945, stands as a devastating global conflict that altered the course of history. With millions of lives lost, it reshaped the geopolitical landscape.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 's 'I Have a Dream' Delivered Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington D.C. While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was giving a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, gospel singer (and King's close friend) Mahalia Jackson spurred him to go off-script, calling out, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!
- John F. Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the moon' Delivered Sept. 12, 1962, at Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas. In 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were in the thick of the Space Race, and the U.S. government was fighting over how much money to put into the project to put a man on the moon.
- Sylvia Rivera's 'Y'all Better Quiet Down' Delivered in 1973, at Washington Square Park, New York City, N.Y. On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the riots that resulted jumpstarted the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
- Dennis Shepard's 'Statement to the Court' Delivered Nov. 4, 1999, in Laramie, Wyo. Matthew Shepard, a young gay man attending college in Laramie, Wyo., was beaten to death in an apparent hate crime in October 1998.
2 days ago · The 20th century was a period of unprecedented change, marked by both triumphs and tragedies. From the devastation of world wars and the horrors of the Holocaust to the technological revolution and the rise of globalization, the events of the 20th century have shaped the world we live in today. Understanding these historical events is crucial ...
Jun 3, 2019 · 1. The end of WWII (1945) 2. The first organ transplant (1954) 3. First heart transplant (Louis Washkansky, 1967) 4. Penicillin successfully used to treat a first patient for septicaemia or blood...
