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Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Everything seemed to be going perfectly until the presence of an iceberg hindered the crossing at 11:40 pm on April 14 and caused the collapse of a barcode in which 1517 people perished from the 2,223 passengers traveling on board, a figure that includes 68% of total casualties.

My opinion

If the sinking of the titanic had not happened, the most probable thing is that no more security measures will be taken in large ships.

World War I (1914 - 1918)

Imperialism, or the division of colonial territories between France and the United Kingdom, made both countries become the great powers of the world by the beginning of the 20th century.

This panorama resulted in two sides: the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, facing each other for four years in what was also known as the Great War, a catastrophe that convulsed Europe like never before and whose vestiges would trigger the even more infamous Second World War .

Nazi Holocaust (1941 - 1945)

Its name ("sacrifice with fire" in Greek) defines the bloodiest episode in the history of the 20th century.

The persecution of more than 6 million Jews by the Nazi army led by Adolf Hitler and his subsequent confinement in concentration camps became the culmination of a rise to power by the Führer during the 1930s, which triggered an even more bloody Second World War. and it altered the stability of the European continent that would pay the consequences of the debacle during the successive decades.

A total of 11 million deaths are estimated, of which 1.5 million were children.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb (1945)

In response to the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Americans planned their revenge by dropping on August 6 and 9, 1945, two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In this way, they caused 246 thousand deaths that triggered other terrible consequences such as the presence of the hibakushas, ​​survivors affected by the effect of the bombs whose wounds and trauma marginalized them from their own society.

March on Washington (1963)

Although slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, racial loopholes continued in a country where discrimination lay dormant in both the workplace and social and economic spheres.

The one considered a movement for civil rights in the United States would begin in 1955 and end in 1968 with the murder of Martin Luther King, who on August 28, 1963 would deliver the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of 200,000 congregated attendees in the Lincoln City Building in Washington.

I really like how Martin Luther King gives his speeches and how after the Nazi holocause it is the most positive thing we find

Triumph of Apollo 11 (1969)

The Apollo 11 crew was sent to the moon on July 16, 1969, and managed to reach the surface of the satellite on July 20 of the same year.

Astronaut Neil M. Armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the moon, specifically the area known as the Sea of ​​Tranquility. The event, broadcast worldwide, marked a before and after in space exploration and became the most important milestone for science and technology in all of history.

Vietnam War (1959 - 1975)

Another of the most important episodes of the 20th century falls on the Vietnam War, a country divided by communism in the north and capitalism in the south.

This confrontation continued for sixteen years until the defeat of Westerners during the famous Fall of Saigon, which resulted in a generation of traumatic and pessimistic Americans whose consequences would be reflected, especially, in the culture and society of the 1970s.

Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)

The also known as the "wall of shame" was erected in the early 1960s and established a 45-kilometer separation in Soviet Berlin and that dominated by the victorious Allies of World War II.

Nelson Mandela, from prisoner to president of South Africa

After 27 years of being a prisoner, the leader of the movement that wanted to end the apartheid racial segregation system in South Africa, Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. On May 10, 1994, Mandela was elected President of South Africa, becoming the first black man in the history of that country to get that position and end the authoritarian regime. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

The expansion of the Internet

The first computer was created at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, although the "galactic network" concept first appeared in 1962. And 1969 would be the year in which the first message was sent from one computer to another by which it is known. as ARPANET (Network of the Advanced Project Research Agency).