What were the most significant years of the 20th century?

Not sure when women began being allowed access to higher education in the west? Early 20th century? Ditto, I think, for beginning to have some access to professions.

1960's..women beginning to have access to jobs other than secretarial in business.

1970's: some thought of equal pay for women.

Votes for women: Oz, late 19th Century, US and UK second decade of 20th...not sure re Europe.


Not sure when anti-discrimination in employment laws began to be passed for blacks, women etc in the west.....1970's?

1933: Hitler kind of elected....soon takes over chancellorship.

1949: Communist state esteblished in China under Mao Zedong


1922: Stalin becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee.

1948: India becomes independent.

August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon (the most corrupt politician since Joe McCarty), resigned. OMSig David was sad.

Actually I thought of the Pill as the most important "event" of the century, only you can't possible adjudicate a year to that "event".

1969 when we landed on the Moon;
some of us had been waiting for that for a long time.





David

dyslexia wrote:

I met Nixon a few times, and his wife, Pat.
I was very active in his 1960 campaign in the election that Kennedy stole.
To say that I held Kennedy in abhorence is to understate the case.

Since his demise, I found out that Nixon
advocated and intentionally practiced a political philosophy
of "running on the right and governing in the center"
thereby abandoning the conservatives who elected him,
so he really WAS corrupt to that extent, as u insightfully pointed out.

I never met Joe McCarthy, but I hold him in the highest esteem and affection.
He has my gratitude; he had his heart in the right place.




Yes; this is true. I still have a picture c.18" x 20" on my wall
that I got at Nixon 's inaguration in 1969. I preferred Nixon to Ford.





David

If I were only to pick one, I'll go with 1959 & the day that music died.

It would be difficult to technically say what are the most important dates of the 20th century--1939 there was this little activity on a squash court in Chicago that was a nexus in histury, or in 1927 a guy made this little solo flight in a single engine airplane, 1937 and an incident in Lakehurst NJ also come tomind,. Technology and its application anddevelopement scaffolds (it doesn't occur in a vacumn)..

Social Historical events? I don't consider Columbine significant by itself---muckers existed before 1999--look at starkweather---that was just the one that caught the public by the short hair. Now if you want to consider act of terror--the 1948 bombing in Tel Aviv,or the 1982 Beruit Marine Corps Barracks bombing are best remembered as being warning that were ignored. Although I will agree that Jackie Robinson, Brown & the Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act had major social consequence.

Rap

I voted for Nixon

Mea Culpa

The Cival Rights Movement 1960-1980

Nixon betrayed the conservatives, having moven to the left.

Do rabbits wear bras?

You could in terms of the date it was cleared for mass prescription.

Too lazy to look for that date.

So, its not important then?

Only not at the top of my "things to do" list.

Sixties'll do for me.

I am too lazy too.