1900 1949 The Age of Confusion Introduction to the 20 th
Century
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1900 & 1901 Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory Sigmund
Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams First Nobel Prizes
Awarded First Trans- Atlantic Radio Signal
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1902 & 1903 The Teddy Bear is Introduced First Flight at
Kitty Hawk First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery First World
Series
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1904 to 1907 Ground Broken on Panama Canal Einstein Proposes
His Special Theory of Relativity Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn
Flakes Picasso Introduces Cubism
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1908 & 1909 Ford Introduces the Model-T Three Year-Old Pu
Yi Becomes the Last Emperor of China NAACP Is Founded Plastic Is
Invented Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North
Pole
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1910 to 1914 Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole Oreo Cookies
First Introduced The Titanic Sinks World War I Begins
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1915 to 1919 D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released
Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat Treaty of Versailles Ends World War
I Harlem Renaissance Begins
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1920 to 1924 Prohibition Begins in the U.S. Women Granted the
Right to Vote in U.S. Charleston Dance Becomes Popular V.I. Lenin
Dies
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1925 & 1926 Flapper Dresses in Style Hitler Publishes Mein
Kampf A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh Robert Goddard Fires His
First Liquid-Fuel Rocket Stalin Becomes Soviet Dictator
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1927 to 1929 The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer Lindbergh
Flies Solo Across the Atlantic Sliced Bread Invented New York Stock
Market Crashes & Great Depression Begins Heisenbergs
Uncertainty Principle
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1930 to 1932 Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion Empire
State Building Completed Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo
Across the Atlantic Scientists Split the Atom
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1933 to 1936 Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
Cheeseburger Created The Dust Bowl Parker Brothers Sells the Game
"Monopoly"
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1937 to 1939 Golden Gate Bridge Opened The Hindenberg Disaster
Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic World War II
Begins
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1940 Battle of Britain Pinocchio Pennsylvania Turnpike Opens,
First Highway First African American on a Stamp, Booker T
Washington
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1941 Holocaust Begins Pearl Harbor Ansel Adams Moonrise Bob
Hopes First USO Show
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1942 Pan Am Offers Around the World Flight Anne Frank Starts
Her Diary Manhattan Project Invents Nuclear Power US Japanese
Internment Camps Open
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1943 Pentagon Opens Duke Ellington Plays at Carnegie Hall LSD
is invented
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1944 United Negro College Fund Founded FDR Nominated for Fourth
Term Paris is liberated First Kamikaze Attack
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1945 VE Day Atomic Bomb Invented & Used United Nations
Chartered VJ Day
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1946 NBA Founded First Drive Up Teller Window Churchill Use of
Iron Curtain First Commercially Sponsored TV Show