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Timeline of the 20th Century

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1901
First _____ Prizes awarded
Nobel
1903
First flight of the ______ Brothers
Wright
1903
The first Tour de ______ is held
France
1904
Construction of the ______ Canal begins
Panama
1905
Einstein creates formulation of __________
Relativity
1908
First commercial _____ transmissions
Radio
1911
Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic _______
Nucleus
1912
Republic of _____ is established, after the dissolution of the Empire
China
1913
Niels ____ formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus, and in the process paves the way for quantum mechanics
Bohr
1913
Ford introduces the first moving ________ line
Assembly
1914
Gavrilo _______ assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Princip
1917
_______ Revolution ends the _______ Empire
Russian
1918
Partitioning of the ________ Empire begins
Ottoman
1919
The Treaty of __________ redraws European borders
Versailles
1920
Mohandas ______ launches non-cooperation movement
Gandhi
1921
Adolf Hitler becomes ______ of the Nazi Party
Fuhrer
1922
The province of Northern _______ is created within the United Kingdom
Ireland
1922
March on Rome brings Benito _________ to power in Italy
Mussolini
1922
Howard Carter discovers ___________'s tomb
Tutankhamen
1922
The ____, the world's first officially Communist state, is formed
USSR
1923
The Walt ______ company is formed
Disney
1924
Death of Vladimir _____ triggers power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin
Lenin
1927
________ becomes first Emperor of Japan
Hirohito
1927
World population reaches two _______
Billion
1928
Discovery of __________ by Alexander Fleming
Penicillin
1929
Wall Street crash and beginning of the Great __________
Depression
1931
The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao ______
Zedong
1932
___ World Service starts broadcasting
BBC
1935
Persia becomes ____
Iran
1937
Japanese invasion of China, and the _______ Massacre
Nanking
1937
____ _____ and the Seven Dwarfs is the first feature-length animated movie released
Snow White
1938
The Great _____ ends in the Soviet Union
Purge
1938
First appearance of DC Comics hero ________
Superman
1939
End of Spanish Civil War, Francisco ______ becomes dictator of Spain
Franco
1940
The _____ invade France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway
Nazis
1943
The Battle of __________ ends with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German army
Stalingrad
1945
World War II ends, United _______ is founded
Nations
1947
Independence of _____ and Pakistan
India
1947
Creation of the US Central ___________ Agency
Intelligence
1949
Creation of North ________ Treaty Organisation
Atlantic
1952
Queen _________ II becomes Monarch of the Commonwealth realms
Elizabeth
1952
First scheduled flight by commercial ___
Jet
1953
Elvis _______'s musical career is launched
Presley
1957
Launch of _______ 1 and the beginning of the Space Age
Sputnik
1959
Cuban revolution led by Fidel ______
Castro
1959
Admission of Alaska and ______ into the United States
Hawaii
1959
First documented cases of ____
AIDS
1959
Beginning of the _______ War
Vietnam
1959
World population reaches _ billion
3
1961
The Great ____ Forward ends in China, after the deaths of roughly 20 million people
Leap
1961
Construction of the ______ Wall
Berlin
1962
Cuban _______ crisis
Missile
1963
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a _____" speech
Dream
1964
The Civil ______ Act abolishes segregation in the USA
Rights
1971
Completion of the World _____ Centre
Trade
1972
The ______ Massacre occurs at the Summer Olympics
Munich
1973
Beginning of the _________ scandal
Watergate
1974
World population reaches _ billion
4
1975
The fall of ______ ends the Vietnam War
Saigon
1976
Steve Jobs initiates the birth of the _____ computer
Apple
1979
Implementation of China's one-_____ policy
Child
1981
Wedding of Prince _______ and Princess Diana
Charles
1982
Sony launches the world's first commercially sold __ Player
CD
1985
Mikhail _________ becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev
1985
First use of ___ fingerprinting
DNA
1986
Challenger and _________ disasters
Chernobyl
1987
World population reaches _ billion
5
1989
Akihito becomes Emperor of _____
Japan
1990
Tim _______-___ invents the World Wide Web
Berners-Lee
1991
Dissolution of the ______ Union, and independence of 15 former ______ republics
Soviet
1991
Boris _______ becomes the first President of Russia
Yeltsin
1992
Maastricht Treaty creates the ________ Union
European
1992
Discovery of the ______ belt and the first extrasolar planets
Kuiper
1994
Beginning of the _______ genocide
Rwandan
1994
Kim Jong-__ becomes the Supreme Leader of North Korea
Il
1996
_____ the sheep becomes the first successful cloned mammal
Dolly
1997
Transfer of sovereignty of ____ ____ from UK to China
Hong Kong
1997
Princess _____ is killed in a car accident in Paris
Diana
1997
_____ barrier broken on land
Sound
1998
______ is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Google
1999
World population reaches _ billion
6
2000
Vladimir _____ becomes President of Russia
Putin
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