Help with project..

[aikoden]

hi sarnies.. i'm wondering if any of you would be kind and answer these questions.. My sister needs to know for her class project.. Thanks.. ^_^
these are the questions.. Your answer isn't just about your country, but the world as a whole.. Please write where you are from too.

From your perspective:

1. What are the top 5 most significant events of the 20th century.

2. What are the top 5 most significant events in human history?

- please don't get too technical or too specific
- an example could be european imperialism and colonization.

 

[ChenrukNote]

Not in any specific order but mine would be:

Great depression
creation of automobiles
civil rights movement
women suffrage
World War II-Hitler

Oh I forgot to add I'm from the US.

 

[lady0fdarkness]

Most significant events of the 20th century - Vietnam War, Man Landed On The Moon, The Holocaust, Titanic Sunk, Khmer Rouge, Weapon vs Hunger in North Korea

Most significant events in Human History - Polio Outbreak, Slavery, Aids Epidemic, Going to War, Discovering Nuclear Weapons

 

[pleang sney]

1.Most significant events of the 20th century:
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Great Depression (1929-1939)
- WOrld War II (1939-1944)
- Cold War (1945-1991)
- Civils Rights movements around the world (1960-1981)

2. Most significant events in human history:
- Birth of the Christian Religion ( year 0)
- Surgery by Vésale (1539)
- Abolition of slavery (XIX-XX)
- SHOAH (1939-1944)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

I'm french.

 

[judyp]

20th century:
Civil Rights Movement
Great Depression
Vietnam War
World War II
Women's right to vote

Human history:
Declaration of Independence
Adoption of the U.S. Constitution
Abolition of slavery
Discovery of Penicillin
September 11

I'm from the United States.

 

[darvil]

Man there are so many important events. But I try to narrow it to events I can think of that affected the course of most of humanities's future/lives/cultures.


What are the top 5 most significant events of the 20th century.



1.) Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand (Catalyst for WWI)

2.) Operation_Barbarossa (Hitler's defeat in Russia) (The beginning of the end of the Axis Powers in WWII)

3.) Manhattan Project (Start of the Nuclear Age and the beginning of men's ability to totally destroy himself)

4.) ARPANET (Start of the Digital/Internet Age and one that brings globalization/ideas/people all together)

5.) Fall of the Berlin Wall (End of the Cold War and America's rise to become the sole Superpower in the world)


What are the top 5 most significant events in human history?



1.) Agriculture and domestication of Animals (Humans are no longer nomads and starts to form grand societies)

2.) The discovery/invention of the number zero (Math is no longer unwieldy)

3.) Creation of the Zoroastrianism religion (All major modern religions can be connected to this.)

4.) Ferdinand Magellan trip around the world (Old world meets New World and millions die)

5.) French Revolution/Age of Enlightenment/Age of Reason


I'm an American now but I consider myself a global citizen with an Asian twist