World Events

• Rise of Communism
• Rise of Independent States (Africa and India)
• 1900 - Boxer Rebellion
• 1903 - Wright Brothers first flight
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
• 1920 - First commercial radio broadcast
• League of Nations (1920-1946)
• 1927 - first television transmission
• Great Depression (1930s)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Cold War (1945-1991)
• United Nations (1946-present)
• Korean War (1950-1953)
• 1955 - RCA invents the synthesizer
• 1957 - Russians launch Sputnik
• 1961 - Peace Corps established
• 1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated
• Vietnam War (1963-1973)
• 1969 - Apollo moon landing
• Computer Age (1970s-present)
• 1979 - Iran Revolution
• 1991 - Gulf War

Artists

• Picasso
• Braque
• Dali
• Chagall
• Norman Rockwell
• Duchamp
• Pollack

Twentieth Century Music

Impressionism  |  Jazz  |  Expressionism  |  Neoclassicism  |  Minimalism

Musical Characteristics  |  Genre and Forms  |  Theorists, Treatises and Collections

Composers and Major Works  |  Hymnology

Last Updated: Saturday, February 14, 2009