End of Apartheid in South Africa

1994

Founder of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, 2004

Decolonization in Africa and Asia, Peak

1950s-1960s

Event Symbolizing End of Soviet Control in Eastern Europe

Fall of the Berlin Wall

First Female British Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher

Assassination Triggering WWI

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Chinese Cultural Revolution Start

1966

Event Signifying the Start of the Space Race

Sputnik Launch, 1957

First Country to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

Netherlands, 2001

Concept of Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Climate Change Key Agreement

Paris Agreement, 2015

D-Day Invasion, Year

1944

Axis Powers in WWII

Germany, Italy, Japan

First Industrialized Country

United Kingdom

Event Leading to End of Cold War

Collapse of Soviet Union, 1991

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Year

1789

First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong, 1969

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989

Event Leading to US Entry into WWII

Pearl Harbor, 1941

First Person in Space

Yuri Gagarin, 1961

First African Country to Gain Independence Post-WWII

Ghana, 1957

9/11 Attacks Location

United States, 2001

First Use of Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima, 1945

Berlin Conference, 1884-1885

Regulation of European Colonization

Cuban Missile Crisis, Year

1962