Time: 80 Days That Changed the World

by Editors of Time Magazine

• ISBN13: 9781932273021
• ISBN10: 1932273026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Time Home Entertainment, Inc

Summary

When Time magazine was founded in 1923, it aimed to offer readers a fresh new way to understand world events. In that spirit, and in celebration of Time's 80th anniversary, the editors have created a thought-provoking experiment with history. The challenge: to choose the 80 most influential events of the past eight decades: 80 Days That Changed the World. The result is a fascinating and surprising look at the recent past. Some of the turning points selected for this list are part of our permanent mental calendars. Dec. 7, 1941, and Nov. 22, 1963, immediately conjure up a host of associations, even for those who did not experience firsthand the shock of the Pearl Harbor attack or John F. Kennedy's assassination. The date Sept. 11, 2001, has now joined this category, its events forever seared into our memories. Perhaps the most fascinating dates and events, however, are those that may have seemed unremarkable at the time but proved in the long run to be of major importance. Nov. 24, 1989, for instance, brings up no particular associations -- yet it is the day Osama bin Laden ascended to the top position in the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Table of Contents

Essay: Why History Doesn't Follow the Rules	p. 2
1920s
Turkey Turns to the West	p. 4
The Nazis' Failed Putsch	p. 6
V. I. Lenin Dies	p. 8
Ford Originates the 40-Hour Work Week	p. 9
Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic	p. 10
The First Talking Film	p. 12
Mickey Mouse Is Born	p. 13
Penicillin Is Discovered	p. 14
The Wall Street Crash	p. 15
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 16
1930s
Gandhi Calls for Freedom	p. 20
F.D.R. Takes Office	p. 22
Hollywood Censors Films	p. 24
A.A. Is Founded	p. 25
Jesse Owens Triumphs Over Nazi Propaganda	p. 26
Superman Takes Flight	p. 27
Kristallnacht: Germany's Prelude to Genocide	p. 28
Oil Is Found in Saudi Arabia	p. 29
Germany Invades Poland	p. 30
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 32
1940s
Churchill Becomes Britain's Prime Minister	p. 36
Japan Attacks the U.S.	p. 38
The Allies Invade Europe	p. 40
The First Atom Bomb Is Dropped	p. 42
Baseball Is Integrated	p. 44
India Gains Independence	p. 45
Breaking the Sound Barrier	p. 46
Jackson Pollock Shows His First Action Paintings	p. 47
Israel Becomes a Nation	p. 48
Mao Takes Power in China	p. 49
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 50
1950s
Senator McCarthy Launches an Era of Fear	p. 54
I Love Lucy Debuts	p. 56
The Mau Mau Uprising	p. 58
DAN's Structure Is Found	p. 59
Elvis Begins Recording	p. 60
Rosa Parks Launches the Civil-Rights Era	p. 62
Sputnik Orbits Earth	p. 64
The Leakeys Discover Man's Earliest Ancestor	p. 65
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 66
1960s
The Birth-Control Pill Is Invented	p. 70
Silent Spring Sparks Concern for the Environment	p. 71
A Vatican Council Updates Roman Catholicism	p. 72
The Cuban Missile Crisis Threatens Peace	p. 74
Martin L. King Declares, "I Have a Dream"	p. 76
John F. Kennedy Is Killed	p. 78
The Beatles Arrive	p. 80
China's Cultural Revolution	p. 82
Women Demand Equality	p. 84
The First Heart Transplant	p. 85
The Tet Offensive Turns the Tide in Vietnam	p. 86
Martin L. King Is Killed	p. 88
Robert F. Kennedy Is Killed	p. 89
Gays Call for Equal Rights	p. 90
Man Lands on the Moon	p. 91
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 92
1970s
The Microchip Is Invented	p. 96
A Watergate Burglary Begins a President's Fall	p. 97
Roe v. Wade: Abortion Is Legalized	p. 98
Saigon Falls to the Communists	p. 99
The Personal Computer Arrives	p. 100
Star Wars Opens	p. 101
The First Test-Tube Baby Is Born	p. 102
Ayatullah Khomeini Returns to Iran	p. 103
The Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan	p. 104
Thatcher Becomes Britain's Prime Minister	p. 105
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 106
1980s
The 401(k) Plan Is Created	p. 110
AIDS Is Named	p. 111
Reagan Terms the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"	p. 112
Gorbachev Takes Power in the Soviet Union	p. 113
Prozac Is Approved	p. 114
Bin Laden Becomes al-Qaeda's Leader	p. 115
The Berlin Wall Falls	p. 116
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 118
1990s-2000s
The World Wide Web Debuts	p. 122
Nelson Mandela Is Freed	p. 123
Terrorists Bomb the World Trade Center	p. 124
O.J. Simpson: Not Guilty	p. 125
The Terrorist Bombing in Oklahoma City	p. 126
The Dotcom Era Begins	p. 128
Princess Diana Dies	p. 129
Viagra Is Approved	p. 130
Protesters Assail the World Trade Organization	p. 131
The Supreme Court Rules: Bush Is the Winner	p. 132
Al-Qaeda Attacks America	p. 134
Bush Identifies an "Axis of Evil"	p. 136
Fateful Meetings/Snapshots	p. 137
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