End of Apartheid in South Africa

1994

D-Day Invasion, Year

1944

First African Country to Gain Independence Post-WWII

Ghana, 1957

First Industrialized Country

United Kingdom

Chinese Cultural Revolution Start

1966

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989

First Person in Space

Yuri Gagarin, 1961

Decolonization in Africa and Asia, Peak

1950s-1960s

Axis Powers in WWII

Germany, Italy, Japan

Climate Change Key Agreement

Paris Agreement, 2015

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

1789

Event Symbolizing End of Soviet Control in Eastern Europe

Fall of the Berlin Wall

First Country to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

Netherlands, 2001

Assassination Triggering WWI

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

First Female British Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher

9/11 Attacks Location

United States, 2001

First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong, 1969

First Use of Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima, 1945

Event Signifying the Start of the Space Race

Sputnik Launch, 1957

Berlin Conference, 1884-1885

Regulation of European Colonization

Founder of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, 2004

Concept of Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Event Leading to End of Cold War

Collapse of Soviet Union, 1991

Event Leading to US Entry into WWII

Pearl Harbor, 1941

Cuban Missile Crisis, Year

1962