This my list of the ten most important events in the last century:


World War One
Russian revolution
Great Depression
World War Two
Decolonization
Soviet atomic blast
Creation of Israel
Iranian revolution
Chinese Revolution
Globalization


You?

1) Invention of atomic weapons - Forever changed the way World power is distributed throughout the planet.

2) WW2 - Change the US from an isolationist nation to the "World's policeman", for good and bad.

3) Invention of the computer - Allowed the rate of technological advancement to increase at an unprecidented rate.

4) Invention of the airplane - Huge impact on World economics, travel, warfare, and exploration.

5) Woman's Suffarage

6) Cold War

7) Invention of Television

8) WW1

9) Space race (US/USSR)

10a) Creation of Israel

10b) Internet

10c) US Assasinations of the 60's(MLK, JFK, RFK)

10a) Creation of Israel

10b) Internet

10c) US Assasinations of the 60's(MLK, JFK, RFK)

Let's be fair, pick one please.

10a) Creation of Israel

10b) Internet

10c) US Assasinations of the 60's(MLK, JFK, RFK)

Let's be fair, pick one please.

:p It's hard to just pick one...

OK, I guess the invention of the internet will have the most profound effect for the future so that's my choice.

Undecided

I'm curious, where did "de-colonization" occur during the 20th century? And how was it actuated?

11. discovery of penicillin
12. development of the pill.

I can't decide, because...well, all the important events come down to World War 1. That war changed everything. It laid the foundation for the world that we live in today. It had a heavy hand in creating the USSR and giving the US the power it has now. Everything goes back to World War 1.

Also the placement of George W. Bush at the top of the nation seems to have had a substantial effect around the world. But then again, he wouldn't be there if World War 1 had never happened.

Also the placement of George W. Bush at the top of the nation seems to have had a substantial effect around the world. But then again, he wouldn't be there if World War 1 had never happened.

Why wouldn't he be president if WW1 had never happened?

'Also the placement of George W. Bush at the top of the nation seems to have had a substantial effect around the world. But then again, he wouldn't be there if World War 1 had never happened.'

/Yeah...electing morons to positions of political power does have its consequences.

I'm curious, where did "de-colonization" occur during the 20th century? And how was it actuated?

Well the major wave of de-colonization began in 1947 with the independence of India, and it lasted into 1980 with the total independence of Zimbabwe. Decolonization of the third world make Europe into a largely irrelevant speck in comparison to the two antagonists the US and the USSR playing their imperialist games in these new independent states. The decolonization was important because it gave the world freedom from European oppression, but it also signaled a era of increased warfare, increased poverty, and general un-ease worldwide.

Also the placement of George W. Bush at the top of the nation seems to have had a substantial effect around the world.

Sadly that was in the year 2001...

I don't think he would be president because I also believe that, had the two largest wars in recent memory not occured the nation's history would have turned out very differently. FDR would have had only two terms, Truman probably would have never been President.

medicine
Vaccinations(health care)
neural imaging techniques
protective sex.
computer/math
invention of the Computer
invention of the internet
mobile phone
physics
space race
space station/satellites
atomic weapons
society
women's suffarage (is a good one static76)

Neurocomp2003

You posted 15, and these are not 20th century phenomenon:

i)medicine- the Greeks have that one
ii) Vaccinations(health care)- both were in existence prior to the 20th century.
iii)protective sex.- again existent before the 20th century.
iv)math- not even going to go there.
v) physics- does Sir Isaac Newton ring a bell?
vi)society- yes....?

Yeah, Neurocomp, I think you have to realize that there was a period in time before this last century. And yes, that period of time DID have society...

:m:

i)medicine- the Greeks have that one
Obviously he meant modern medicine. And he is quite right in that. One could also think about modern hygiene. Yes the romans had hygiene too. Such as sharing a sponse to wipe their arses after shitting.


ii) Vaccinations(health care)- both were in existence prior to the 20th century.
not until last century is was common to die of many viral and other infections. Only last century we had a systematic approach to this problem.

figure out your own problem with the rest of them.

Obviously he meant modern medicine.

Then he could have written that no?

not until last century is was common to die of many viral and other infections. Only last century we had a systematic approach to this problem.


But this does not mean that it existed only in the 20th century...

But this does not mean that it existed only in the 20th century...

Mortality rates of the past seem to indicate the opposite.

1. Telephones

2. Computers

3. Advancements in health care

4. Advancements in Physics and math

5. Advancements in Chemistry

6. Advancements in aircraft and space exploration

7. Television

8. Environmental planning

9. Movies

10. Advancements in human waste disposal both garbage and excrement.

sorry i forgot that this text editor doesn't save the way you type
4 of those are subtitles
medicine,
comp/math
physics
society
and the things that arre below them are what i considered
which are the 4/6 you listed
lol you think i'd state math and physics as achievements of only the 20century(well physics has excelled beyond believe in the 20th century)

and yes i did mean modern medicine,allowing us to do what we want,eg. eat,extreme sports and get into accidents and mend us back together

vaccinations? really like child annoculations?
protective sex in what form?

spuriousmonkey

Were vaccinations 20th century inventions? No...end of story.

lol you think i'd state math and physics as achievements of only the 20century

So this thing doesn't happen again, use your tags.

vaccinations? really like child annoculations?

I am not sure of which vaccinations for sure it was, but I know they were in existence in the 1800's, some disease I think some sort of pox, or flu?

protective sex in what form?

They used animal skins; I know the Ancient Egyptians used wood...ow!

either comparing what we had then and what we have now...gives our society more leeway to do things.

Yes, but the premise of this thread was for things that were made, or major events in the 20th century.

well ok then was health care back then?

In which sense? If you mean doctors helping the poopulation, yes. Was it good medicine? No, but nevertheless, it did exist.

stuff like OHIP...health care coverage.

You live in Ontario? Universal Healtcare you mean? Well I am not sure if it is a 20th century innovation. You should find out...

spuriousmonkey

Were vaccinations 20th century inventions? No...end of story.



Thank you for your open mind in this matter.

spuriousmonkey

Why are you acting as if this is something that is we can have a opinionated debate, The fact is that the vaccinations are not unique to the 20th century. Do you deny this? I don't need a "open mind", if I were to use my fantasy then I would agree with you, but since reality dictates...

not until last century is was common to die of many viral and other infections. Only last century we had a systematic approach to this problem.

remember this?

That is not indictating anything but mass inoculations, it does not say anything about the vaccine being a purely 20th century deal. If you said the Small Pox vaccine I would accept it because it altered mankind, and it was in the 20th century. But to claim the vaccince as being 20th century deal is misrepresentation of the facts. This is not my opinion, it's merely a fact.

That is not indictating anything but mass inoculations, it does not say anything about the vaccine being a purely 20th century deal. If you said the Small Pox vaccine I would accept it because it altered mankind, and it was in the 20th century. But to claim the vaccince as being 20th century deal is misrepresentation of the facts. This is not my opinion, it's merely a fact.

Good for you that you have facts. History doesn't work like that.

So then tell me, wtf are you even trying to say? You aren't making any sense.

I would of though somebody would have given this one already:

Man landing on the moon.

So then tell me, wtf are you even trying to say? You aren't making any sense.

It is not worth my effort if you don't understand by now.

I think the invention of the sixties was one of the most important events in the twentieth century. Of course, it took them until 1983 to invent them...

It is not worth my effort if you don't understand by now.

Loving the cognitive surrender pal, what you were calling was mass inoculations and you know it. What you were telling me before was vaccinations themselves, so insist on the surrender I will insist on laughing.

The 60's

Was a interesting time to say the least, it seemed to have the nexus of a relatively peaceful social revolution. By the looks of it the US by the 1960's was a state that had some key events take place. I think the election of Kennedy being a catholic symbolized change, and renewal of the US, the WASP monopoly had been broken in the US. Racial movements found their voice in leaders like MLK, and Malcolm X, with progressive leaders who interpreted the constitution and the bill of rights as they should be read, for all men. The era is known as the "American enlightenment" with aspects of individuality, exercising that freedom, a huge middle class, a society which was deeply idealistic, and a society that was trying to really reform what is the US. The movement of youth in that period of history brought fresh new ideas. The 60's also had its bad side; hedonistic values overrode the people of the US, the spread and influence of drugs, and sex. The period of the 60's was obviously a movement against war, especially in Vietnam. The period was one of a gradual Soviet-US detente after the atomic testing treaty, and stability in the USSR under Brezhnev. It reached the fever pitch at the convention in Chicago 1968, and the election of Nixon in the same year. The 60's really ended in the early 70's after the spirit of the 60's burned out in 1972, and the American enlightenment ended around the rise of Disco.

And of course this is how MTV remembers the sixties today. Or no, actually that part of history has been totally revised in the popular consciousness to be entirely unlike the events you just mentioned.

Martin Luther King is a soundbite
Kennedy is a sack of meat in the back of a car
Nixon is a library
Vietnam is a series of movies
Drugs were invented in the sixties

No one remembers. Talk to a high school student... they probably don't remember Reagan. The reinvention of the sixties is an important event in the twentieth century, even if it happened a little late.

I can tell you that ppl don't care about the past, it is the perfect example of willed ignorance. The 60’s were a time of real change; I think the verdict is still out on whether or not it was a good thing or bad thing for the US. I mean obviously the Black movement, and Feminism has made the US better, but has the rest? Have things gone too far? Is America really the America that your founding fathers wanted?

Why should America (or Canada or Great-Britain or anything else, for that matter) be what our founding fathers wanted? Shouldn't it be what we want?

Why should America (or Canada or Great-Britain or anything else, for that matter) be what our founding fathers wanted? Shouldn't it be what we want?

My answer is no, because if we use that logic constitutions and the like mean nothing. The cornerstone of our societies is the respect of enlightenment ideals, and egalitarianism, and Utilitarianism as the foundations of our societies. But to have the period of time control itself would be like a teen without a parent, it would go wild. For instance it may be popular to kill x ppl for no reason, but it is populist and thus we are getting what we want. That is obviously not right, if society did what it wanted it is possible blacks would still be segregated today. We as a society need a guide, and to ignore the founding fathers of nations would be to ignore the nation itself.

in no particular order

* atom bomb (as someone said, it changed the distribution of power)
* numerous healthcare advances (prolonged life expectancy considerably, boom in world population)
* WWI, WWII (it taught europe to behave, and caused it to turn towards prosperity)
* 1973 oil embargo (the west's inflated ego was popped like bubble gum. it was reminded how vulnerable it really was)
* fall of USSR, and the end of the cold war (people stopped worrying about nuclear armageddon... at least for a short while)
* the development of Ford's mass production techniques (made cars affordable to everyone. owning a car became a normal thing for everyone, not just the stinken rich. the introduction of cars into American Life (and therefore Western life))
* decolonialization (created nationalist 3rd-world gov'ts all over the world, angry and bitter with their former colonizers)
* internet (e-commerce, online dating, new culture and ways to communicate, etc.)
* pearl harbour (the US changed its isolationist policy and from now took a more active role in influencing foreign governments - to put it mildly)
* the Balfour Declaration (which called for the creation of Israel, in 1917)

In order of most important:
1. Development of Aircraft+space exploration
2. World War II
3. World War I
4. Sufferage Movement
5. Modern Medicine
6. Rise and fall of Communism
7. Computers
8. New deseases (AIDS, super-bacteria)
9. USA's superpower
10. MTV


that last one is a joke!