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BIG EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
By: Autumn Weekes
The years that have passed
1900-1920
1900: Time Square is created in New York City.
Today Time Square is one of New York's biggest tourist attractions.
1905, January 9: The Rebellion in Russia broke out.
Soldiers opened fire killing more than 100 people. Thus making the country erupt into the rebellion.
1912, April 14: The Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic.
It hit an iceberg and broke apart killing 2,200 passengers.
1913: The Moving assembly line was made by Detroit auto maker
Henry Ford that was turning out his innovative model T.
1914, August: World War I Begins.
1917, November 7: The Russian Revolution.
The third year of World War I, Czar Nicholas II handed over power to a provisional government.
1919, June 28: The Treaty of Versailles
A peace agreement marking the end of WW I.
1920, August: The 19th amendment is passed.
Allowing women to vote in America.
1921-1940
1932, March 4: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Takes Office.
Roosevelt, a Democrat, promised Americans a new deal, winning 472 electoral votes to Republican, Hoover's 59.
1938, March 12: Nazis occupy Austria.
Hitler forms an alliance with Mussolini, an Italian dictator.
1941-1960
1941, December 7: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor involving the USA in WW II.
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