Table V: 1900-Present
| 1900 | Boxer uprisings in China against Europeans; Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" published |
| 1902 | U.S. acquires perpetual control over the Panama Canal; Treaty of Vereeninging ends the Boer War |
| 1903 | Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a powered airplane at Kitty Hawk |
| 1904 | Deaf and blind Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College |
| 1905 | First regular cinema established in the United States |
| 1907 | Rasputin gains influence at the court of Czar Nicholas II |
| 1910 | The "week-end" becomes popular in the U.S. |
| 1911 | The Manchu Dynasty falls in China |
| 1912 | The S.S. Titanic sinks |
| 1914 | World War I begins |
| 1915 | Germans sink the Lusitania; Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity |
| 1916 | Jazz sweeps the U.S.; Pancho Villa raids New Mexico; U.S. law establishing the eight-hour workday for railroad workers prevents a nationwide strike |
| 1918 | Ex-Czar Nicholas II executed; Regular air-mail service established in the United States |
| 1919 | Versailles Peace Conference; Prohibition Amendment is ratified in the U.S.; Lady Astor, the first British woman Member of Parliament to take her seat, is elected |
| 1920 | The 19th Amendment gives American women the vote; Mahatma Gandhi emerges as India's leader in its struggle for independence |
| 1921 | Britain and Ireland sign a peace treaty; the Ku Klux Klan activities are violent throughout the southern U.S. |
| 1922 | Mussolini's March on Rome; Soviet States form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| 1925 | The Scopes Monkey Trial is held in Dayton, Tennessee |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh flies the "Spirit of St. Louis" from New York to Paris |
| 1928 | The first Mickey Mouse films are produced |
| 1929 | St. Valentine's Day Massacre of Chicago gangsters; U.S. Stock Market collapses |
| 1932 | Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Atlantic |
| 1933 | Adolf Hitler is appointed German Chancellor; Prohibition is repealed in the U.S. |
| 1934 | Adolf Hitler is elected Fuhrer |
| 1936 | King Edward VIII abdicates the British throne; Spanish Civil War |
| 1937 | Amelia Earhart is lost on a Pacific flight; Hindenburg disaster |
| 1939 | World War II begins |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill is named British Prime Minister |
| 1941 | Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; U.S. declares war on Germany and Italy |
| 1942 | Mahatma Gandhi arrested for demanding independence for India |
| 1944 | D-Day |
| 1945 | V.E. Day ends war in Europe; U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders |
| 1946 | Juan Peron is elected President of Argentina |
| 1947 | India is proclaimed independent |
| 1948 | The Jewish state of Israel comes into existence |
| 1951 | Color television is first introduced |
| 1954 | McCarthy Hearings on communism are held in the U.S.; Brown versus Board of Education decision requires desegregation of the public schools in the U.S. |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" is a hit; The Polio Vaccine is discovered |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro becomes the Premier of Cuba |
| 1961 | Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard make the first space flights |
| 1963 | U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated |
| 1965 | Watts race riots take place in Los Angeles |
| 1966 | Indira Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister of India |
| 1967 | Six-Day War between Israel and Arab nations; Thurgood Marshall is the first black person appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 1968 | The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated |
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong walks on the moon |
| 1973 | End of the U.S. involvement in the war in Indochina; Energy Crisis |
| 1974 | President Nixon resigns for Watergate and cover-up |
| 1979 | Three Mile Island nuclear incident |
| 1981 | IBM announces the personal computer; Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 1986 | Chernobyl nuclear accident |
| 1989 | Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska; Berlin Wall comes down; Chinese dissidents massacred in Tiananmen Square |
| 1991 | The Soviet Union officially ceases to exist; Persian Gulf War -- United Nations forces initiate "Desert Storm" campaign to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait |
| 1992 | First black woman elected to U.S. Senate: Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill) |
| 1993 | The Treaty on European Union takes effect |
| 1994 | With the end of apartheid in South Africa, Nelson Mandela is elected President of the Republic of South Africa |
| 1995 | Federal Building in Oklahoma City bombed; Yitzak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated; HIV/AIDs epidemic estimated to infect 14 million people worldwide; In "The Trial of the Century," former football star and actor O.J. Simpson is found "not guilty" of murdering his ex-wife and a friend |
| 1996 | The use of Internet tools such as e-mail and the World Wide Web grows dramatically |
| 1997... | O.J. Simpson found civilly liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and a friend; Hong Kong reverts to Chinese control after the expiration of a 99-year lease to the British |
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