Notes

Sigmund Freud- 1981
Developed theories of psychoanalyisis

Mussolini takes power- 1883-1945
Prime Minister of Italy*

Kaiser Wilhelm ll- 1888- 1918
Last German emperor and king of Russia *

Leo Baekeland-1893
Inventor of Velox Photographic paper

Archduke Francis Ferdinand- 1896
Royal Prince of Hungary

General Arthur Currie- 1897-1920
Officer who fought in the first world war

Igor Stravinsky- 1900
**

Edward Vll -1901
A holy man ****

Willis Carter-1902
Invented the first electrical air conditioning

Panama Canal Completed -1903-1914
Completed and used for shipping goods

Henry Ford- 1903
The captian of industry and a business ****, aswell as the founder of the Ford motor company

Orville and Wilbur Wright- 1904
They invented the first airplane

Russo Japenese war 1904-1905
War between Russian Empire and Empire of Japan

Pablo Picasso- 1906
He was a painter, sculptor, stage designer, poet and playwright.

Marconi-1909
An Italian inventor who won the Nobel prize in physics.

Robert Borden- 1911-1920
The eighth prime minister of Canada.

Titanic-1912
"The ship that will never sink" sank by hitting an iceberg. 1500 people died.

Gavrilo Princip-1914
He assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand

World War l- 1914-1918
Global world war, originated in Europe

Gallipoli Campaign- 1915-1916
Campaign for the first world war that happened in Gallipoli

Lusitania sinking- 1915
The Lusitania sank ****

Second battle of Ypres-1915
During the WW1, this battle took place and Ypres wanted to control flemish town.

Russian Revolution-1917
The rise of the soviet union

Battle of Vimy Ridge-1917
Fought as battle of Arras during WW1

Max Planck-1918
Won the nobel prize in physics. Also, the founder of energy quanta.

Treaty of Versaille-1919
Peace treaty between Germany and the allies.

League of Nations-1920
They made forum so the war did not break out again.

Mackenzie King -1920
Dominate Canadian political leader and prime minister.

Albert Einstein- 1921
Won the nobel prize in physics and created the theory of relativity.

Stalin take power-1922
A general of the soviet union.

Wall Street Crash-1929
Stock market crash in the history of the United States.

Frederick Banting and Charles Best-1931
Discovered insulin.

Holocaust-1933-1945
6 million jews were killed in this traumatic event by Adolf Hitler.

Franklin Roosevelt-1933
32nd president of United States.

Birth of Dionne Quintuplets-1943
First quintuplets born in history, in Ontario.

Adolf Hilter-1945
Leader of the nazi party.

Spanish Civil War- 1936-1939
Civil War that occured in Spain.

Hindenberg Explosion-1937
German passenger airship caught on fire and was destoryed.

World War ll-1939-1945
Second global wide war.

General Francisco Franco-1939
Ruled Spain as a military dictator.

Manhattan Project-1939
Produced first nuclear weapons during WW2.

Battle of Britain-1940-1941
A military campaign of WW2, in which the Royal Air Force defended the UK against big attacks by the German air force.

Germany invades USSR-1941
The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union.

Attack on Pearl Harbour-1941
Suprise military strike at Pearl Harbour.

Dieppe-1942
Allied attack on German occupied port during WW2.

Louis Armstrong-1943
American musician and composer.

D-Day-1944
Landing operations that was WW2.

Hiroshima-1945
During WW2, the US dropped a nuclear bomb at the japenese cities of Hiroshima.

Nuremberg Trials-1945
Military tribunals.

Alexander Fleming-1945
A Scotish physician biologist who won a nobel prize.

Descent of the Iron Curtain-1945-1991
The iron curtain was a divider between Europe and the Soviet Union controlled areas.

John Maynard Keynes-1946
British economist policies of the government.

Baby Boom-1946-1964
When all the troops returned from the war, the population increased.

Mohandis Gandhi-1946-1947
Gandhi fasred for 21 days to mend India and Pakistan under an agreement for no violence.

Marshall plan inaugurated-1947
The signing of the European Recovery act. America stepped in to help Europe.

Nelson Mandela-1948-1991
Nelson ended apartheid.

Gandhi assassinated-1948
He was shot three times on his way to pray.

Establishment of NATO-1949
NATO was made to protect America and Europe from the soviet union taking over.

Founding of McDonalds -1948
McDonalds has grown to be the 2nd largest private employer business in the world.

Creation of the state of Israel-1948
David Ben Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel.

Berlin Airlift-1948
One of the first major international cricises of the cold war.

Television becomes popular-1950
After WWll, a black and white TV became very popular in the states.

McCarthy starts Red Scare-1950
Senator McCarthy spent almost 5 years trying in vain to expose communists and other left wing loyalty risks in the US Government.

Korean war-1950-1953
The war between North and South Korea. Started because the North invaded the South.

Winston Churchill -1951-1955
Served as the prime minister of the UK.

Stalin Dies-1952
Had a fatal stroke and died.

Francis Crick and James Watson-1953
Recieved the nobel prize for psychiology or medicine for their determination of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

Dr. Jonas Salk-1955
First to discover polio vaccine.

Vietnam War-1956
North and South Vietnam had conflict with America.

Hungarian Revolution-1956
Hungarians Created an uprising against the soviet union.

Suez Crisis-1956
Israeli forces pushed into Egypt to the Suez canal after the president nationalized the canal. Causing the crisis.

Introduction of The Birth Control Pill-1957
The FDA approves the pill but only for menstural disorders.

European Economic Community formed-1957
A regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among it's member states.

Sputnik-1957
This was the first artificial satellite to go into space.

John F. Kennedy-1963
He was assasinated in Dallas Texas***

Martin Luther King Jr.-1964
He recieved the nobel peace prize for combatting racial inequality through nonviolence.

Cuban Missile Crisis-1962
A pivotal movement