TWENTIETH CENTURY PERIOD - A.D. 1900-2000

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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