2007-02-08 16:23:02 · 15 answers · asked by samina 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I believe that one of the most important events to occur within the last century was the development of the flu vaccine, which initiated in 1945. Without this essential medical advance, it is likely that this illness could have wreaked more havoc on the global population, not unlike the tragedy of losing more than 30 million people during the 1918 pandemic. Even though the flu currently remains more of a threat to the young and elderly in current times, the invention of the vaccine and its successors continue tot influence the health of our most vulnerable people in society.
2007-02-08 16:30:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the invention of the computer and the internet are extremely significant events for not only the 20th C. but also for the next couple of centuries as well. This technology will easily explode to the point where computers will be a vital component of life. It's already starting, lets hope we get it right.
2007-02-08 16:41:03 · answer #2 · answered by Logie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The invention of antibiotics and the polo vaccine!.
With out vaccine and antibiotic plus sulfur most of us would have died after birth Most children died before they were three years old. One presidents son died from a hurting his big toe on the tennis court. Because of an infection that today. Had he been given him penicillin.
. More soldiers died by infections than getting shot. Which includes the Civil War and WWI . It was just before WWII that there were enough antibiotics especially penicillin So our men/women could survive from most infections
. Without these drugs more r soldier's would have died instead of getting shot by a sniper or a suicide bomber.!
I truly believe if not antibiotics life as we know it today would be as it was children dying from the mumps and measles etc.
Fairknightness
2007-02-08 19:00:47 · answer #3 · answered by Rae Ann 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World War 2.
because of World war 2, the UN was formed
because of WW2 , we have rockets to go to space
because of WW2 , more research is done to make WMD and other weapons
because of WW2, fascism is slowly degrading
because of WW2, germany was divided after the war
because of WW2, Nazi party was degrading
because of WW2, some people began to worship Hitler
2007-02-09 01:18:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Penicillin. It prevented more deaths and suffering than any other thing in the 20th century.
2007-02-08 16:31:55 · answer #5 · answered by mustanger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The assassinations of Jack Kennedy and Martin Luther King,
If you are familiar with their hopes and dreams for the United States you can see how the tragedies are compounded by our present situation.
2007-02-08 16:33:09 · answer #6 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WWI - it caused the Geat Depression, WWII, and the Cold War. It also ended Monarchy as a political institution in Europe.
2007-02-08 17:42:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The publication of Joyce's Ulysses. Joyce=Art, Art=Life.
2007-02-08 16:35:51 · answer #8 · answered by Lambert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the world has and will never be the same again for humans can destroy the world in an instant. the walking on the moon is a close second
2007-02-08 20:03:46 · answer #9 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
telephone... i opened the communication barrier... without it all this things that makes the world a screen or ear piece away from us are not here... we may have cars, electricity etc. but nothing made the world move in such a fast pace simultaneously than telephone... think about this... it started the internet... internet started a revolution...
2007-02-08 17:08:10 · answer #10 · answered by pedro_jose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋