Introduction to the 20 th Century

1. Introduction to the 20th Century 1900 – 1949 The Age of Confusion

2. 1900 & 1901 Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory First Nobel Prizes Awarded First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

3. 1902 & 1903 First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery The Teddy Bear is Introduced First World Series First Flight at Kitty Hawk

4. 1904 to 1907 Picasso Introduces Cubism Ground Broken on Panama Canal Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes Einstein Proposes His Special Theory of Relativity

5. 1908 & 1909 Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes the Last Emperor of China NAACP Is Founded Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole Ford Introduces the Model-T Plastic Is Invented

6. 1910 to 1914 Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole Oreo Cookies First Introduced World War I Begins The Titanic Sinks

7. 1915 to 1919 Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I Harlem Renaissance Begins

8. 1920 to 1924 Charleston Dance Becomes Popular Prohibition Begins in the U.S. Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S. V.I. Lenin Dies

9. 1925 & 1926 Flapper Dresses in Style Hitler Publishes Mein Kampf A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh Stalin Becomes Soviet Dictator Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket

10. 1927 to 1929 Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer New York Stock Market Crashes & Great Depression Begins Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Sliced Bread Invented

11. 1930 to 1932 Scientists Split the Atom Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic Empire State Building Completed Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion

12. 1933 to 1936 Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany The Dust Bowl Parker Brothers Sells the Game "Monopoly" Cheeseburger Created

13. 1937 to 1939 The Hindenberg Disaster Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic World War II Begins Golden Gate Bridge Opened

14. 1940 • Battle of Britain • Pinocchio • Pennsylvania Turnpike Opens, First Highway • First African American on a Stamp,Booker T Washington

15. 1941 • Holocaust Begins • Pearl Harbor • Ansel Adams’ “Moonrise” • Bob Hope’s First USO Show

16. 1942 • Pan Am Offers Around the World Flight • Anne Frank Starts Her Diary • Manhattan Project Invents Nuclear Power • US Japanese Internment Camps Open

17. 1943 • Pentagon Opens • Duke Ellington Plays at Carnegie Hall • LSD is invented

18. 1944 • United Negro College Fund Founded • FDR Nominated for Fourth Term • Paris is liberated • First Kamikaze Attack

19. 1945 • VE Day • Atomic Bomb Invented & Used • United Nations Chartered • VJ Day

20. 1946 • NBA Founded • First Drive Up Teller Window • Churchill Use of “Iron Curtain” • First Commercially Sponsored TV Show

21. 1947 • Roswell “UFO” • Transistor Invented • Chuck Yeager Breaks Speed of Sound • Jackie Robinson

22. 1948 • Berlin Airlift • Candid Camera on TV • Supreme Court Rules No Religion in Schools

23. 1949 • First Sitcom, “The Goldbergs” • NATO Founded • Lone Ranger Debuts on TV • Howard Unruh, First Mass Murder in US