Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb to the top of Mt. Everest. Dr Jonas Salk began immunizing children against polio. The Korean War took place. The Viet Nam War began. George VI of England died, and ElizabethII took the throne. The first atomic submarine was launched. President Truman approved development of the hydrogen bomb. Racial segregation is bannedby the U. S. Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education.Egypt took control of the Suez Canal. The space age began by the Russian's launch of Sputnik I, the first orbiting satellite. Fidel Castro takespower in Cuba.
On February 8, 1910 the Boy Scouts of America became incorporated and on June 19, the first Father's Day was celebrated. On October 11, 1910 Theodore Roosevelt became the first former president to ride in an airplane.
World War 2 was going on during the middle of this time period.
maybe type in the question: What was America like 1900 - 1960?
Lots of inventions. Like cars, and lighting, and the print and press. The revolutionary war, infact all of the world wars.
Things like elections or large political rallies.
The Civil War.
World War 2 and the Holocaust.
Major events are significant occurrences or incidents that have a widespread impact on a large number of people. These events can be political, social, cultural, economic, or related to disasters and can shape the course of history.
The olympics in brazil
mixing the five basic elements
Identify events that marked major social, political, and economic shifts
Not many. "Major" was only the granting of Dominion status to South Africa.
Hitler died
The Chinese believed that they could predict major political and military events by mixing the five basic elements firing oracle bones visiting a psychic observing patterns in the sky
The major political event was the slaves' revolt in about AD 1800, led by Toussaint l'Ouverture. It was the only successful large-scale slave revolt leading to a political change anywhere that had African slaves.
there were articles written in major papers, but politically it was played down.