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World History Timeline: 1901 - 1950 |
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1901-1905 | Theodore Roosevelt is US president; he works to reform business, railways, child labour, and to conserve natural resources (1901 -1909) | Russo-Japanese War (1904- 1905) Revolution in Russia (1905) |
First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery (1903) The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1905) |
Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.(1902) | Queen Victoria Dies (1901)
Salvador Dali (Surrealism) born in Spain (1904) |
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1906-1910 | Ferdinand I proclaimed emperor of Bulgaria (1908) | Young Turk revolution (1908) | Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.(1907) |
The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.(1907)
Henry Ford produces first Model T car (1908) |
Carlos I of Portugal assassinated (1908) More than 100,000 die in Sicilian earthquake (1908) Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole (1909) |
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1911-1915 | Woodrow Wilson is president of United States (1913-1921) | Assassination of heir to Austrian throne leads to outbreak of World War I (1914) | Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras. (1912) | Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City. (1915) | More than 1500 die in sinking of Titanic (1912) Arizona and New Mexico become US states (1912) |
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1916-1920 | Brazil declares war on Germany (1917) United States declares war on Germany(1917) Armistice ends World War I (1918) |
World's first radio station opens in Britain (1920) | Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.(1916) Ernest Rutherford splits atom for first time (1919) |
Russian Revolution (1917) International Court of Justice established at The Hague (1920) |
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1921-1925 | Mussolini becomes Italian prime minister (1922) | Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain (1923- 1930) | Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland" (1924)
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The first robot built.(1921) First portable radio and first car radio made in United States(1922) |
Death of Vladimir Lenin (1924) | ||||
1926-1930 | Stalin launches five-year plan to expand Soviet industry (1928) | The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer (1927) First Mickey Mouse cartoon (1928) |
In Britain, John Logie Baird invents the television (1926) Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.(1926) Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.(1930) Discovery of Planet Pluto (1930) |
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1931-1935 | Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes US president (1932) Nazi leader Hitler appointed German chancellor; Nazis begin organized persecution of Jews (1933) |
Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935) | Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron
microscope.(1931) Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon(1935) |
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1936-1940 | Civil War in Spain (1936 - 1939) France surrenders to Germany (1940) |
The first jet engine is built.(1937) Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.(1939) German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, demonstrate nuclear fission British scientists develop radar (1940) |
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1941-1945 | Allies invade France and begin to reconquer Europe (1944) World War II ends (1945) |
Jet aircraft developed in England and Germany (1941) Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.(1941) John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.(1942) US scientists build first atomic bomb (1945) |
Truman orders use of atomic bombs against Japan (1945) United Nations is formed (1945) |
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1946-1950 | Mobile phones first invented.(1947) First supersonic flight (1947) |
Independence of India (August 15, 1947)
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Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram
Godse (1948 January 30) NATO Established (1949)
The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic device. |
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Year | Rulers | War and Politics | Entertainment | Literature | Art and Architecture | Science and Technology | India | Historic Events / Personalities |
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