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The turn of the century saw the birth of flight and automobiles. America emerged as an industrial nation. Among other things, President Roosevelt opened Yellowstone National Park. |
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Mark Twain passed away, but the world was busy preparing for World War I, which claimed many American lives. Even men from UK were being sent off to represent the United States in battle. |
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Charles Linbergh flew solo across the Atlantic, silent movies ruled the silver screens, but the United States was rocked to its financial core when the stock market took a terrible crash in 1929. |
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The Hindenburg exploded during its trip to prove German superiority, while Jesse Owens did his own exploding on Germany by winning gold medal after gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. |
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The United States shook up the world when it dropped not one, but two nuclear bomb on Japanese cities to end World War II, while the United Nations was also formed in perhaps the most important decade of the century. |
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Civil rights were just getting going as segregation in our nation's schools was being challenged, but Marilyn Monroe was getting crazy as her fame went through the roof, and UK was a powerhouse in football. |
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Malcolm X was the man when it came to giving good speeches, and during the 1960s, MLK was not too shabby himself. But with all the triumph of civil rights, many of these and other great leaders were assassinated. |
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Everybody's favorite president, Richard Nixon, had to take a ride right out of the White House after the Watergate scandal ruined him, but much of the world was also fixated on another tragedy: the Vietnam War. |
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The world watched perhaps one of the greatest shows of bravery as the Tiananmen Square pretests unfolded on TV in the late '80s. At home in the United States, the Challenger explosion saddened a nation. |
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The world lost one of its most endearing icons when tragedy struck and Princess Diana was killed. Tragedy abounded as Oklahoma CIty was bombed and school shootings dominated the later half of the decade. |
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