TURNING POINTS IN THE 20th and 21st CENTURIES

There are events in history that every student should know about because they affected and changed the world and the way we do things.

Although these 62 topics are presented in chronological order, the resources may be used independently of one another, in any order that suits your teaching.

The resources are useful to:

• teach about the event
• to fill in gaps in knowledge -sometimes when starting a new topic, some students may not be aware of what happened before
• when a question is raised in the news
  Each topic has illustrated slides to guide the lesson and printable worksheet activities. The activities are also on the slides.

TOPICS COVERED

• The Electicity Revolution
• Moving Pictures
• Flight
• New Ways of Communication
• Motor Cars and the Assembly Line
• World War 1
• Battle of the Somme
• The Zimmerman Telegram
• The Rise of Communism
• The Execution of the Russian Royal Family
• Fall of Europe’s Monarchs
• Women’s Suffrage
• The Beginning of Women’s Liberation
• The Discovery of Penicillin
• The Great Depression
• Rise of the Dictators in Europe in the 1930s
• Arab Revolt of 1933
• World War Two
• Battle of Britain
• Stalingrad
• Pearl Harbour
• Midway
• Cracking the Enigma
• D-Day
• The Atomic Age
• The Holocaust and the Nuremburg Trials
• The United Nations
• The Establishment of the State of Israel
• Television
• The Cold War
• The Chinese Civil War and Communism
• The Korean War
• The Suez Crisis
• Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1950s
• Rock ‘n Roll
• Vietnam War
• The Space Race
• The Winds of Change
• Civil Rights Movement in the US during the 1960s
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Assassination of President Kennedy
• The Beatles
• The Sixties Counterculture
• The Six-Day War
• The Fall of the Shah of Iran
• The Rise of the Personal Computer
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• The Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq
• Fall of the Soviet Union
• The Fall of Apartheid Government in South Africa
• The Internet
• Mobile phones
• The 9/11 attacks
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq
• Social Networking
• The Arab Spring
• ISIS
• The COVID Pandemic
• Russian War against Ukraine
• Artificial Intelligence
• Hamas Attack on Israel