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1900 1949The Age of ConfusionIntroduction to the 20th Century11900 & 1901

Max Planck Formulates Quantum TheorySigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of DreamsFirst Nobel Prizes AwardedFirst Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal21902 & 1903

The Teddy Bear is IntroducedFirst Flight at Kitty HawkFirst Silent Movie, The Great Train RobberyFirst World Series31904 to 1907

Ground Broken on Panama CanalEinstein Proposes His Special Theory of RelativityKellogg's Starts Selling Corn FlakesPicasso Introduces Cubism41908 & 1909

Ford Introduces the Model-TThree Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes the Last Emperor of ChinaNAACP Is FoundedPlastic Is InventedRobert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole51910 to 1914

Roald Amundsen Reaches the South PoleOreo Cookies First IntroducedThe Titanic SinksWorld War I Begins61915 to 1919

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation ReleasedLusitania Sunk by German U-BoatTreaty of Versailles Ends World War IHarlem Renaissance Begins71920 to 1924

Prohibition Begins in the U.S.Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.Charleston Dance Becomes PopularV.I. Lenin Dies81925 & 1926

Flapper Dresses in StyleHitler Publishes Mein KampfA.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-PoohRobert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel RocketStalin Becomes Soviet Dictator91927 to 1929

The First Talking Movie, The Jazz SingerLindbergh Flies Solo Across the AtlanticSliced Bread InventedNew York Stock Market Crashes & Great Depression BeginsHeisenbergs Uncertainty Principle101930 to 1932

Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax EvasionEmpire State Building CompletedAmelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the AtlanticScientists Split the Atom 111933 to 1936

Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of GermanyCheeseburger CreatedThe Dust BowlParker Brothers Sells the Game "Monopoly"121937 to 1939

Golden Gate Bridge OpenedThe Hindenberg DisasterBroadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes PanicWorld War II Begins131940Battle of BritainPinocchio Pennsylvania Turnpike Opens, First HighwayFirst African American on a Stamp,Booker T Washington

141941Holocaust BeginsPearl HarborAnsel Adams MoonriseBob Hopes First USO Show

151942Pan Am Offers Around the World FlightAnne Frank Starts Her DiaryManhattan Project Invents Nuclear PowerUS Japanese Internment Camps Open

161943Pentagon OpensDuke Ellington Plays at Carnegie HallLSD is invented

171944United Negro College Fund FoundedFDR Nominated for Fourth TermParis is liberatedFirst Kamikaze Attack

181945VE DayAtomic Bomb Invented & UsedUnited Nations CharteredVJ Day

191946NBA FoundedFirst Drive Up Teller WindowChurchill Use of Iron CurtainFirst Commercially Sponsored TV Show

201947Roswell UFOTransistor InventedChuck Yeager Breaks Speed of SoundJackie Robinson

211948Berlin AirliftCandid Camera on TVSupreme Court Rules No Religion in Schools

221949First Sitcom, The GoldbergsNATO FoundedLone Ranger Debuts on TVHoward Unruh, First Mass Murder in US

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