Radio broadcast
In 1906, the first radio broadcast went on the air. Canadian Regenald Fessenden played the violin on the radio, and his performance was received on ships thousands of miles away. By the beginning of the 1960s. the first pocket radios powered by batteries appeared.World War I
In 1914, in which 38 countries took part. The Quadruple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria) and the Entente bloc (Russia, England, France, Italy, etc.) participated in the hostilities. The conflict occurred between Austria and Serbia due to the assassination of the Austrian heir to the throne. The war is more than 4 years old, and more than 10 million soldiers died in the battles. The Entente bloc won, but the economies of the countries fell into decay during the hostilities.Russian Revolution
In 1917, the Great October Revolution began in Russia. The tsarist regime was overthrown and the imperial family of the Romanovs was shot. Tsarist power and capitalism were replaced by the socialist system, which offered to create equality for all working people. The dictatorship of the proletariat was established in the country, and the class society was liquidated. A new totalitarian state appeared - the Russian Socialist Federative Republic.A television
In 1926, John Baird received a television image, and in 1933, Vladimir Zworykin achieved better reproduction quality. Electronic images were updated on the screen 25 times per second, resulting in moving images.The Second World War
In 1939, the Second World War began, in which 61 states took part. The initiator of hostilities was Germany, which attacked first Poland and later the USSR. The war lasted 6 years and claimed 65 million lives. The greatest losses during the war fell on the lot of the USSR, but thanks to the indestructible spirit, the Red Army defeated the fascist invaders.Nuclear weapon
In 1945, it was used for the first time: American armed forces dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Herashima and Nagasaki. Thus, the United States sought to hasten the end of the Second World War with Japan. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants died, and the results of the bombing had disastrous consequences.Computers and Internet
In 1945, two American engineers John Eckert and John Moakley created the first electronic computer (computer), which weighed about 30 tons. In 1952, the first display was connected to a computer, and the first personal computer was created by Apple in 1983. The Internet has become a worldwide network.Space flight
In 1961, a Soviet rocket overcame gravity and made the first flight into space with a man on board. The three-stage rocket was built under the direction of Sergei Korolev, and was controlled by spaceship Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.The collapse of the USSR
In 1985, “Perestroika” began in the Soviet Union: a system appeared, rigid censorship was replaced by glasnost and democracy. But many reforms led to an economic crisis and exacerbation of national contradictions. In 1991, a coup took place in the Soviet Union, and the USSR broke up into 17 separate independent states. The territory of the country was reduced by a quarter, and the United States became the only superpower in the world.1894 - 1917 - The reign of Nicholas II
1904 – 1905 – Russo-Japanese War
1905 - 1907 - The first Russian revolution
1905, 9-19 – Moscow uprising
1908-1909 - Bosnian Crisis
1907-1912 - III State Duma
1912-1917 - IV State Duma
1914 -1918 - World War I
1917, end of August - Speech by Kornilov
1917, end of October - Armed uprising in Petrograd. II All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
1918 - Adoption of the Constitution of the RSFSR
1928-1932 - First five-year plan
1929, autumn - The beginning of collectivization
1939-1940 – Soviet-Finnish War
1939-1940 - Incorporation of the Baltic States into the USSR
1944 - The expulsion of the Nazis from the territory of the USSR
1954 - The beginning of the development of virgin lands
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1965 - Beginning of economic reform
1968 - Prague Spring
1975 - Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
1979-1989 - War in Afghanistan
1991, spring - Dissolution of the CMEA and the Department of Internal Affairs
2000 - .... – Board V.V. Putin
The twentieth century is "rich" in such events as the most bloody wars, devastating man-made disasters, and the strongest natural disasters. These events are terrible both in the number of human casualties and in the amount of damage.
The most terrible wars of the 20th century
Blood, pain, mountains of corpses, suffering - that's what the wars of the 20th century brought. In the last century there have been wars, many of which can be called the worst and bloodiest in the history of mankind. Large-scale military conflicts continued throughout the twentieth century. Some of them were internal, and some involved several states at the same time.World War I
The beginning of the First World War almost coincided with the beginning of the century. Its causes, as we know, were laid at the end of the nineteenth century. The interests of the opposing allied blocs collided, which led to the beginning of this long and bloody war.Thirty-eight of the fifty-nine states that existed in the world at that time were participants in the First World War. We can say that almost the whole world was involved in it. Starting in 1914, it ended only in 1918.
Russian Civil War
After the revolution took place in Russia, in 1917 the Civil War. It continued until 1923. AT Central Asia pockets of resistance could be extinguished only in the early forties. 
In this fratricidal war, where reds and whites fought among themselves, about five and a half million people died according to conservative estimates. It turns out that the Civil War in Russia claimed more lives than all the Napoleonic wars.
The Second World War
The war that began in 1939 and ended in September 1945 was called the Second World War. It is considered the most terrible and most destructive war of the twentieth century. Even according to conservative estimates, at least forty million people died in it. It is estimated that the number of victims could reach seventy-two million. 
Of the seventy-three states of the world that existed at that time, sixty-two states took part in it, that is, about eighty percent of the world's population. We can say that this world war is the most world war, so to speak. Second World War was conducted on three continents, in four oceans.
Korean War
The Korean War began at the end of June 1950 and continued until the end of July 1953. It was a confrontation between South and North Korea. In fact, this conflict was a proxy war between two forces: the PRC and the USSR on the one hand, and the United States with their allies on the other.The Korean War was the first military conflict where two superpowers clashed over a limited area without the use of nuclear weapons. The war ended after the armistice was signed. There is still no official announcement of the end of this war.
The worst man-made disasters of the 20th century
Man-made disasters occur from time to time in different parts of the world, taking human lives, destroying everything around, often causing irreparable harm. nature. It is known about the catastrophes, as a result of which entire cities were completely destroyed. Similar disasters occurred in the oil, chemical, nuclear, and other industries.Chernobyl accident
One of the worst man-made disasters of the last century is the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As a result of that terrible tragedy that happened in April 1986, a huge amount of radioactive material was released into the atmosphere, and the fourth power unit of the nuclear power plant was completely destroyed. 
In the history of nuclear energy, this disaster is regarded as the largest of its kind, both in terms of economic damage and the number of victims and deaths.
Bhopal disaster
In early December 1984, a disaster occurred at a chemical plant in the city of Bhopal (India), which was later called the Hiroshima of the chemical industry. The plant produced products that destroy insect pests. 
Four thousand people died on the day of the accident, another eight thousand within two weeks. Almost five hundred thousand people were poisoned an hour after the explosion. The causes of this terrible catastrophe have not been established.
Piper Alpha oil rig disaster
In early July 1988, a huge explosion occurred on the Piper Alpha oil platform, as a result of which it burned down completely. This disaster is considered the largest in the oil industry. After the gas leak and the explosion that followed, out of two hundred and twenty-six people, only fifty-nine survived.The worst natural disasters of the century
Natural disasters can cause no less harm to humanity than major man-made disasters. Nature stronger than a man, and periodically she reminds us of this.About large natural disasters that occurred before the beginning of the twentieth century, we know from history. Today's generation has witnessed many natural disasters that have already occurred in the twentieth century.
Cyclone "Bola"
In November 1970, the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded swept through. It covered the territory of Indian West Bengal and eastern Pakistan (today it is the territory of Bangladesh).The exact number of victims of the cyclone is unclear. This figure ranges from three to five million people. The lethal force of the storm was not in power. The reason for the huge death toll is that the wave flooded low-lying islands in the Ganges delta, erasing villages from the face of the earth.
Earthquake in Chile
The earthquake that occurred in 1960 in Chile was recognized as the largest in history. His strength on the Richter scale is nine and a half points. The epicenter was in Pacific Ocean just a hundred miles from Chile. This, in turn, caused a tsunami. 
Several thousand people died. The cost of the destruction that occurred is estimated at more than half a billion dollars. There were severe landslides. Many of them changed the direction of the rivers.
Tsunami on the coast of Alaska
The strongest tsunami in the middle of the twentieth century occurred off the coast of Alaska near Lituya Bay. Hundreds of millions of cubic meters of earth and ice fell from the mountain into the bay, which caused a reciprocal surge on the opposite shore of the bay.The resulting half-kilometer wave, having soared into the air, again plunged into the sea. This tsunami is the highest in the world. Only two people became its victims only due to the fact that there were no human settlements in the area of Lituyi.
The worst event of the 20th century
The most terrible event of the last century can be called the bombing of Japanese cities - Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This tragedy occurred on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. After the explosions of atomic bombs, these cities almost completely turned into ruins. 
The use of nuclear weapons has shown the world how colossal their consequences can be. The bombing of Japanese cities is the first use of a nuclear weapon against a person.
The most terrible explosion in the history of mankind, according to the site, is also the work of the Americans. "The Big One" blew up during cold war.
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The American magazine Vanity Fair published 25 the best photos reflecting current events at the time of its publication.
Athlete Jesse Owens wins the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin (the Fuhrer is said to have been beside himself with such a disgrace to the Aryans).
Death of a Republican, September 5, 1936, Spain.
The Republicans were opposed by formations of natives of North Africa - Moroccan volunteers, whose courage and extreme cruelty were legendary. It did not add optimism to the news that General Franco supplied them with new super-rapid-firing German machine guns, which the Republicans did not have.
When the commander gave the order: "On the attack," the soldiers began to rather timidly crawl out of the trenches.
Capa later recalled: “That day we were all very scared. We knew that the Francoists were firing from new machine guns. The number of Republicans killed was in the dozens. I spent the whole day sitting in the trench. When the Republican attack began, I put my watering can out of the trench, and when I heard machine gun fire, I blindly pulled the trigger.
The negative was forwarded to Paris and published on September 23 in VU magazine. The photograph's full title is "Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936", but it is usually referred to more briefly as "The Falling Republican or "Death of a Loyalist Soldier".
The situation is, of course, absolutely unique. The photographer took only one picture during the entire attack, and he took it at random, without looking into the viewfinder. What is there “in the viewfinder”, he did not look at all in the direction of the “model”. And this is one of the best, one of the most famous of his photographs, which made him famous in one part.
Then there was a lot. Near Madrid, his girlfriend, German photojournalist Gerda Taro, died, accidentally crushed by a maneuvering tank.
In 1938, Capa worked as a photojournalist during the Sino-Japanese War. In 1940 he moved to the USA. Worked in North Africa and Italy. In 1944, he filmed the Allied landings in Normandy. In 1947, together with Cartier-Bresson and others, he founded the Magnum photo agency, in 1951 he headed it, but in 1953 he was forced to move to Europe, fleeing McCarthyism. In 1948 and 1950 he worked in Israel. He died in Vietnam at the very end of the Indochina War, blown up by a mine.
The name of the protagonist of the photo - Federico Borel Garcia - was only established many years later.
Women collaborators, France, 1944.
US Marines plant the US flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. The photo is for the American the same symbol of Victory as the photo of Yevgeny Khaldei (the flag over Berlin) is for us. And just like our photo, the American one is staged.
American military planes drop food to Berliners, breaking through the blockade established by the Soviet military administration, 1948.
Democratic candidate Harry Truman, who won the next presidential election in the United States, with the article The Chicago Daily Tribune "Devey defeats Truman" dated November 2, 1948. The photo soon became famous throughout the world. Asked to comment on the incident, Truman said, "It's for the books."
Dorothy Counts' first day high school Harry Harding, North Carolina, USA, September 4, 1957. Dorothy was one of the first black students to be allowed to attend the school. However, the girl could not stand even 4 days due to persecution at school.
Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist priest in South Vietnam, set himself on fire to protest government policies against priests. Thich Quang Duc didn't make a sound until it burned down completely. June 11, 1963.
Martin Luther King, American Baptist minister and civil rights activist in the 1960s (murdered in 1968) August 28, 1963. On this day, about 250,000 whites and blacks gathered in Washington when civil rights legislation was discussed in the US Congress. On the same day, Negro leaders conferred with President John F. Kennedy. Later, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King gave a speech expressing his belief in the brotherhood of man; the speech became widely known as "I have a dream".
The young son of the assassinated US President John F. Kennedy says goodbye to his father, Washington, November 25, 1963.
February 1, 1968 Saigon, South Vietnam South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a member of the Viet Cong army. The scandalous picture went around the world. South Vietnamese authorities said the victim was part of a sabotage group that killed several policemen. According to some sources, his name was Nguyen Van Lem, according to others, the name of the deceased was Le Cong Na.
Nguyen Ngoc Loan himself, after the defeat in the war, moved to the United States, where the Americans considered him a murderer and spoiled his life in every possible way. Died of cancer in 1998.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, takes the first steps on the moon (second man to land on the moon after Neil Armstrong), July 1969. Many still believe that the Americans did not fly anywhere, but simply falsified their flight.
Director Roman Polansky after the brutal murder of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, by the Charles Manson gang, August 1, 1969.
The day of May 4, 1970 entered the history of America forever. On this day, four students at the University of Kent were killed and another nine injured by the Ohio National Guard guarding campus during protests against the Vietnam War.
Graduate photojournalism student John Philo took a photograph of murdered student Jeffrey Miller and fourteen-year-old Mary En Vecchio leaning over him. AT next year he won a Pulitzer Prize for this picture.
He later spoke of it this way:
“I thought they were using blanks. When I raised the camera, I noticed that one soldier was aiming directly at me. I said to myself:“ I will take a picture of this ”and then a shot rang out. In the same second, a cloud of dust separated from the statue nearby with me, and the bullet bounced off her and got stuck in a tree.
I even released the camera when I realized that the cartridges were real. I do not know where this mixture of naivety and stupidity came from, but I did not hide. There was no one on the hillside with me. I felt myself, then turned to the left and saw the body of Jeffrey Miller and a puddle of blood flowing from under him: as if someone had knocked over a whole bucket of blood. I got scared and ran downstairs, but stopped. "Where are you running?" I asked myself, "You should be here."
And I started taking pictures. I photographed the body of Jeffrey Miller lying in the street and people coming out of their hiding places, there is a photograph of Mary Vecchio when she was still there. The tape has already run out. I saw how Mary was literally overwhelmed with emotions. She began to cry. At that very moment, she exclaimed something. I don't remember exactly... something like "Oh my God."
Everyone knows this photo. A picture that to a large extent influenced the attitude of Americans towards the war in Indochina. The image for which the Vietnamese photographer Associated Press Nick Ut vietnamHuỳnh Cfng Ъt) won the Pulitzer Prize and entered the history of photography. On June 8, 1972, near the village of Chang Bang, northwest of Saigon, there was a battle between detachments of the North Vietnamese army and the South Vietnamese. Several civilians, fleeing the North Vietnamese, left the village and headed for the positions of government troops.
The pilot of the South Vietnamese plane mistakenly mistook the villagers for enemy soldiers and dropped several napalm bombs on them. Nick Ut captured the moment a group of children run down the road just after the bomb attack. In the center is nine-year-old Kim Fook, burned with napalm, her face contorted in pain.
A garden in New Orleans County (USA) fell victim to arson and looting after Hurricane Katrina, September 4, 2005.
Chronology of the most important events in world history
–XX century (second third)–
1934, August 2 After the death of Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler simultaneously became president of Germany, concentrating legislative and executive power in his hands. He established a regime of fascist dictatorship in the country and launched active preparations for war.
1935 - 1936 Italo-Ethiopian War. It ended with the annexation of Ethiopia by Italy.
1936 October The Berlin Agreement formalizes the military-political union of Germany and Italy (“Berlin-Rome Axis”),
1936 - 1939 Civil War in Spain. It assumed the character of a national revolutionary war against the fascist rebels and the Italo-German interventionists. It ended with the establishment of the fascist dictatorship of General Franco.
1937 November Spain joined the Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan.
1938 March Fascist German troops occupied Austria; proclaimed its accession to Germany (Anschluss).
1938 September Munich Agreement between Great Britain (N.Chamberlain), France (E.Daladier), Germany (A.Hitler) and Italy (B.Mussolini). It provided for the separation from Czechoslovakia and the transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany, as well as the satisfaction of territorial claims to Czechoslovakia from Hungary and Poland. Predetermined the capture of all Czechoslovakia by Germany (1939) and contributed to the outbreak of World War II.
1939 Januaryü After fierce fighting, the troops of the Spanish Republicans left Barcelona.
1939 March The end of the civil war and the establishment of a fascist dictatorship in Spain.
1939 May-September In the area of the Khalkhin-Gol River, Japanese troops invaded the territory of Mongolia, which has an allied treaty with the USSR, but were defeated by the Soviet-Mongolian troops.
1939, August The Soviet-German non-aggression pact ("Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact") with a secret appendix establishing the delimitation of the "spheres of interest" of the parties.
1939, September 3 England and France declared war on Germany, but they did not provide military support to Poland.
1939 November - 1940 March Soviet-Finnish war. It ended with a peace treaty that established a new state border on Soviet terms.
1940, May 20 German tank formations reached the English Channel, cutting off a large grouping of Anglo-French-Belgian troops in Belgium and Northern France.
1940 June 4 During the Dunkirk operation, the Anglo-French-Belgian troops pressed to the sea were evacuated to England.
1940 June 14 By order of the French Commander-in-Chief Weygand, Paris was surrendered without a fight. 1940, June 22 Capitulation of France. The Compiègne truce provided for the occupation by Germany of about 2/3 of French territory and a number of other extremely difficult conditions for France.
1940 July 3 The English fleet destroyed the French ships at Oran to prevent their use by the Germans.
1940 August - 1941 May The Battle of England is an air attack by the German Air Force on England in order to force her to withdraw from the war.
1940, September 27 Berlin pact on military alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan. Later, the governments of a number of other states dependent on Germany joined.
1940 October Italian troops invaded Greece, where they met fierce resistance.
1941 March 11 The US Congress passed a law on lend-lease - a system for transferring (on loan or rent) weapons, ammunition, strategic raw materials, food, etc. countries whose defense is important to US security.
1941 June 22 In violation of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, Nazi Germany began a war against the USSR.
1941, December 5-6 The beginning of the counter-offensive of Soviet troops near Moscow. The final breakdown of Hitler's "blitzkrieg" strategy, the beginning of a turn in the course of the war.
1941, December 23 Japanese troops occupied Hong Kong. 1942, January 1 In Washington, representatives of 26 states, including the USSR, the USA, Britain and China, signed a declaration on pooling military and economic resources to defeat the fascist bloc.
1942, May 7-8 The Battle of the Coral Sea is the first victory of the American fleet over the Japanese in World War II.
1942, June 4-6 In the Battle of Midway Atoll, the US Pacific Fleet defeated a Japanese aircraft carrier strike force.
November 2, 1942 The British army defeated the Italo-German troops near El Alamein - a turning point in the course of the North African campaign.
November 27, 1942 The French sailors blew up the arsenal and sank their ships at Toulon to prevent them from being captured by the Germans.
1943 January Casablanca Conference of Roosevelt and Churchill. Decided to land allied forces in Sicily. The opening of the 2nd front in northern France has been postponed.
1943 February 2 The victory of the Soviet troops in Battle of Stalingrad- the beginning of a radical change in the Great Patriotic War and the 2nd World War.
1943 November 22-26 Cairo Conference of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek. A decision was made to return to China all the territories taken from it by Japan and to liberate all the Pacific islands seized by Japan since the beginning of World War I (since 1914).
1943 November 28 - December 1 Tehran Conference of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. Declarations were adopted on joint actions in the war against Germany and on post-war cooperation between the three powers, and a decision was made to open a second front in Europe no later than May 1, 1944. The delegation of the USSR, meeting the wishes of the allies, promised to declare war on Japan after the defeat of the German army.
1944 June 6 The opening of the second front - the beginning of the landing of the Anglo-American expeditionary forces across the English Channel in Normandy.
1944 June 13 The first bombardment of British territory by unmanned projectiles (V-1).
1944, 9 September. The overthrow of the monarcho-fascist regime in Bulgaria. Bulgaria's declaration of war on Germany.
1944, December 16 Beginning of the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes. The allied troops were defeated and, although by the end of December they stopped the advance of the German troops, they found themselves in a very difficult situation. January 6, 1945 Churchill turned to Stalin with a request for help.
1945, January 12 The beginning of the Vistula-Oder operation of the Soviet troops (8 days earlier than planned - in connection with the request of the allies for help).
1945 February 4-11 Crimean (Yalta) conference of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. The military plans of the allied powers were determined and coordinated, and the main principles of their post-war policy were outlined with the aim of creating a lasting peace and a system of international security.
1945 April 1 - June 21 The invasion of American troops on Okinawa.1945, April 4 Soviet army completed the liberation of Hungary.
1945 April 12 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, has died. Harry Truman became the 33rd President of the United States.
1945 April 21 Soviet troops broke into the outskirts of Berlin and started a battle in the city.
April 28, 1945 Benito Mussolini is captured and executed by Italian partisans by court martial.
April 30, 1945 In the face of inevitable retribution, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
1945, May 2 The Soviet troops completely suppressed and forced the troops of the Berlin garrison to surrender.
1945 June 26 At a conference in San Francisco, convened on behalf of the USSR, the USA, Great Britain and China, delegates from 50 countries signed the UN Charter.
1945 July 17 - August 2 Berlin (Potsdam) conference of Stalin, Truman and Churchill (since July 28, Attlee). Decided on the demilitarization and denazification of Germany, the destruction of German monopolies, on reparations, on the western border of Poland; confirmed the transfer of the USSR to the city of Königsberg and the area adjacent to it.
1945, July 26 Labor victory in the British elections, Churchill's resignation.
1945, August 9 The Soviet Armed Forces began military operations against the Japanese Kwantung Army.
1945 September - 1954 July The war of France against the peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
1945, November 20 - 1946, October 1 Nuremberg Trials over the main Nazi war criminals. 1946, January 10 The first session of the UN General Assembly opened in London; 51 states participate.
1946, January 12 The composition of the UN Security Council was formed, consisting of 5 permanent members (USSR, USA, Great Britain, France and China) and 6 temporary ones.
1946 February 6 A provisional government has been established in Korea. The country is divided along the 38th parallel into two zones: the northern one is controlled by the USSR, the southern one by the USA.
1946 - 1949 Civil war in China between the nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek and the communists led by Mao Zedong.
1946 - 1949 Civil War in Greece.
1947, August 15 The British government granted independence to India and Pakistan.
November 29, 1947 The UN General Assembly voted for the division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs did not agree with this decision. *
1948, March 17 The Brussels Treaty on the Establishment of the Western Union - the military-political organization of Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
1948, May 15 - 1949, July Arab-Israeli (Palestinian) war between the Arab states (Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen) and the State of Israel.
April 4, 1949 The North Atlantic Treaty on the creation of NATO was signed in Washington, which included the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada.
1949, August First test atomic bomb in USSR. The period of the US nuclear monopoly is over.