Berlin Conference, 1884-1885

Regulation of European Colonization

Climate Change Key Agreement

Paris Agreement, 2015

First Industrialized Country

United Kingdom

Event Leading to End of Cold War

Collapse of Soviet Union, 1991

Cuban Missile Crisis, Year

1962

First Female British Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher

First Use of Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima, 1945

First Person in Space

Yuri Gagarin, 1961

First African Country to Gain Independence Post-WWII

Ghana, 1957

Event Symbolizing End of Soviet Control in Eastern Europe

Fall of the Berlin Wall

D-Day Invasion, Year

1944

End of Apartheid in South Africa

1994

Chinese Cultural Revolution Start

1966

Event Signifying the Start of the Space Race

Sputnik Launch, 1957

Event Leading to US Entry into WWII

Pearl Harbor, 1941

Concept of Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Decolonization in Africa and Asia, Peak

1950s-1960s

Assassination Triggering WWI

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989

Axis Powers in WWII

Germany, Italy, Japan

Founder of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, 2004

9/11 Attacks Location

United States, 2001

First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong, 1969

First Country to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

Netherlands, 2001

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

1789