Dear readers, we wholeheartedly welcome you to our newest blog! This blog will discuss the most important events that happened in the United States in the 20th century. We are impatient to tell you everything that our research brought to life, and we hope you are just as impatient to read about it on our blog!
We suppose you are a history buff like us and we can’t wait to share our passion for knowledge with you. On this page, you can find more information about this blog such as the blog contents and the ambitions we have for it.
What’s Special About the Last Century
In our daily lives, we take many things for granted. We use our electronic devices as if humanity has always had them, but only a hundred years ago, there weren’t even TV’s. It’s not that we don’t know this information, it’s the fact that we rarely think about the amazing progress that humanity went through in mere 100 years.
This is why we chose to dedicate this blog to the most important events in the 20th century. More specifically, we decided to concentrate on events that happened in the United States since we are all American , and since that’s when the country became a world power.
However, it’s not just a matter of politics, many great things happened in the United States back then. Art, inventions, milestones – you name it. A single blog would not be enough to contain all the significant events from the last century. We will certainly try though!
Blog Contents
As we already said, the blog is going to discuss various important events from the history of the United States in the 20th century. Each article on our blog will be about a different affair that somehow captivated America and the world. It could be a story of success and heroism, or it could be a tragedy that we still cannot get over.
In order to choose the most significant events to talk about first, we decided to look at polls conducted by respectable analytic companies that asked American what they believe are the most significant events.
Many of the answers overlap and they can’t really be graded by importance due to the peculiarities of each era in which the research was conducted. For example, a poll from the late 1990’s placed Clinton’s impeachment hearings before the Watergate affair, likely because the case was still ongoing.
Here’s a small sample of the topics we intend to cover. As you will notice, they are not graded by importance – we will leave that to you, the reader:
- The first Transatlantic flight
- The creation of Hollywood
- The Prohibition Era
- The Great Depression
- US Role in the two world wars
- Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- McCarthyism
- John F. Kennedy’s assassination
- Robert Kennedy’s assassination
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Moon Landing
- The Watergate affair
- The rise of Neoliberalism
- Black Monday
- The Gulf Wars
- Bill Clinton’s impeachment
Thank You
These are the topics we are currently working on and we will be happy for you to tell us if any of them interests you. You can, for example, provide an interesting angle to a broad theme, which we can then research and write an article on.
Remember, we can’t do this alone. In order for a blog to be complete, it needs engaged visitors to read it and comment on it. So please, don’t ever hesitate to contact us and to give us feedback or recommendation for new material. We will be always happy to read your thoughts and work to improve our blog.
We hope for this blog to become a space where we can share knowledge and learn from each other. Where we can discuss obscure theories and events for hours and days at a time. We want for this blog to become your favorite place on the historical side of Internet, and we will work hard to make that happen.
Thank you again!