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We're talking modern or ancient? Modern : 1.) 9/11 2.) Cuban Missile crisis. 3.) Man lands on Moon! 4.) Birth of PC and revolution that followed. 5.) Birth of Internet and its crazy growth! Ancient : 1.) Texas annexation 2.) Monroe doctrine 3.) President Ab Lincoln sworn in and his policies. 4.) Alaska Purchase. Rick
I love the way you yanks consider those things "ancient". Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Your list is more than a little flippant, but I'm glad somebody finally got this thread out of its rut. American culture is now the dominant culture on this planet. I think it's reasonable that this list include at least one cultural event (if not more) rather than only political and military events. The development of rock and roll music in the 1950s. It's now the soundtrack for most of the world, if you include its offshoots like rap and reggae. The dawn of television. The technology was first demonstrated in the 1920s but it didn't become a commercial utility until after WWII. The dawn of radio. The science was figured out in the 19th century but radio stations became a staple of American life in the 1920s. The birth of jazz early in the 20th century. Built upon ragtime and the blues, it's a uniquely American music orignated largely by Afro-Americans. Almost every major style of music since then is a sub-genre of jazz, including Dixieland, swing, bebop, bluegrass and the various forms of rock and roll. The recording of music in the late 19th century. We now live in a world in which music from every era and in every style, composed and performed by the most acclaimed professionals, is available anywhere, any time, over headphones or loudspeakers, practically free.
What about the formation of Hollywood. Hollywood has indoctrinated millions worldwide and these indoctrinated peoples are all tuned into the Hollywood (American) culture. Superpowers like America just export their TV inot countries and the people of that country are singin to the American tune in no time at all. So Hollywood is worth a think!
because its not in the top five things? :shrug: I want to change my list. Remove Civil Rights Movement and change it to Kittyhawk/Wright brothers.
as an outsider i would have said Declaration of Independence Lincons actions Kennedy's presidency and assination Martin Luthur King's speach and Obama's presidency
you think political change comes quickly? Its a steam roller, not a bubble car. It takes a huge build up to start it rolling but once it starts its hard to stop I was watching a program on the evolution of English law yesterday and they were talking about 2 men, one a parlimentarian and the other a judge. The MP walked up to the king (Henry 8) and DEMANDED that free speach be granted to palimentarians. His speach was quite inspiring but it took 100? years before it would become a reality. However it put the issue into the peoples eyes, without that who knows if Free speach would exist as an ideal even in the US. The Chief Justice of the High court made a speach that a) the king was not the law and b) (and most importantly) NO one was above the law (the golden metwand). Years latter this same principle which he first stated was used to excute a king and gave birth to the republic of england (which didnt last long) and the supremicy of parliment (which DID last eventually right up until this day) The fact that nither of these speaches changed things when they were stated doesnt change the fact that without them the world could well be a very different place not just for england but for the whole world, including the US
BTW, the program i was watching was this http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/C/crime-and-punishment/programme-guide.html Programme 3: New King on the Block
As another outsider... Firstly, The migration of some English to America has to be more important than anything else, because without that none of the other events would have transpired. The Declaration of Independance was dependant upon that event, so we'd move that to number two. Kennedy was a complete asshole. Read up on him before you comment. His policies might have worked when considering internal US politics, but in terms of world politics he was the instigator of, or complicit in, a great many heinous things. Do you really think he was a hero where the Cuban Missile Crisis was concerned? Or Haiti? Martin Luther King was only a figurehead for a movement that came into existence before him, and went on without him. It is such a pity that humans seem to require a common point of reference before anything makes sense to them. Obamas Presidency? Well. It appears that we have to give creedence to what a man is before we assess what he has done. Racism. If only those who hated it truly understood it.
There were many highlights of the civil rights movement and that was just one of them. How about Vietnam? All of us Flower Children thought we had a young hip guy in the White House who was all for Love and Peace like we were. Then he died and we began to look more closely at the legacy of the Kennedy administration, and discovered that the U.S. armed forces were now participating in another country's civil war. Apparently we did not learn our lesson in Korea. Naw. It didn't work that way for Ted Kennedy. All of your rhetoric notwithstanding, Obama's election is a milestone in American history. I don't know if it's one of the top five milestones, but it is a milestone.
Somewhere in the top few, certainly far above 9/11, would be the immigration of the Irish fleeing the Potato Famine. Among other effects, that broke the back of racial slavery - the race based maintenance of a laboring class deprived of political power - both in the established black and incipient yellow arrangements.
here are some important events in our history number one my birth duhPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image! number two 9-11:bawl: number three- my boy Justin Bieber ahahahah:jawdrop: number 4- fire!!! number 5 Jesus/ easter!
