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Decades of Biggest Change Session 5

1905 to 1915

Your Thirties

Under Construction
If you had been born in 1875, just as this the period covered by is course began, then you would have been in your thirties during this decade.


[Video Introduction of Session]

Churchill and the Kaiser
Churchill and the Kaiser Observing Army Maneuvers 1911

Outline

Course Decades of Biggest Change 1875 to 1945

Session 5 Topics

Topic 1 First Lord of the Admiralty
Topic 2 To the South Pole
Topic 3 The USA’s 1912 Election
Topic 4 How World War I Began
Topic 5 Early WWI Campaigns

Other Sessions

One| |Two| |Three| |Four| |Five| |Six| |Seven| |Eight| |Nine| |Ten


Headlines

YEAR EVENTS
1906 Spain: Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain Control of Morocco
1906 Portsmouth: H.M.S. “Dreadnought” Launched
1906 China and Britain Agree to Reduction of Opium Production
1907 Washington, DC: President Theodore Roosevelt Bars Japanese from
Immigrating to U.S.
1907 New York City: First Ziegfeld Follies
1907 San Francisco: Earthquake Kills 700; $400 Million Property Loss
1907 Brownsea Island, England: Baden-Powell Founds Boy Scouts
1908 Brussels: Leopold II Transfers the Congo to Belgium; Ends
“Congo Horrors”
1908 Durban and Cape Town: Union of South Africa Established
1908 Beijing: Tzu-His, Dowager Empress of China Dies (b. 1834)
1908 Detroit: The Ford Motor Company Produces the First Model T
1909 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire: Young Turks Depose Sultan
1909 Pathe Studios, Paris: First Newsreels Produced
1909 : Robert E. Peary Reaches North Pole
1910 Tokyo: Japan Annexes Korea
1910 Beijing: China Abolishes Slavery
1910 South America: Tango (Dance) Emerges
1910 New York City: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Founded
1911 China: Revolution Ends Imperial Rule
1911 Libya: Italy Takes Tripoli from Ottoman Empire
1911 : Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole
1912 Zurich: Carl Jung Writes “The Theory of Psychoanalysis”
1912 North Atlantic: “Titanic” Collides With Iceberg, Sinks
1912 USA: Woodrow Wilson Wins Election;
Republican Candidate Places Third
1913 USA: Income Tax Introduced Through the 16th. Amendment
1913 Los Angeles: Charlie Chapmen Begins Movie Career
1913 Lambarene, French Congo: Albert Schweitzer Opens His Hospital
1913 USA: Zippers (in use since 1891) Became Popular
1914 Europe: World War I Begins
1914 : Panama Canal Opened
1914 University of Cambridge: Bertrand Russell Writes
“Our Knowledge of the External World”
1915 Hollywood: D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” Revolutionizes the Movie Industry
1915 New Orleans: Golden Years of Classic New Orleans Jazz Begins
1915 Berlin: Albert Einstein Postulates His “General Theory of Relativity”
YEAR EVENTS

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YEAR TITLE AUTHOR(s)
1048 Holy Roman Emperor Takes Control of the Papacy Ferdinand Gregorovius| |Joseph Darras
1054 Orthodox, Catholics Split Henry F. Tozer| |Joseph Deharbe
1066 Battle of Hastings Sir Edward Creasy
YEAR TITLE AUTHOR(s)

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