What is a historical event that had a lasting effect on society?

Question

i need to write a paper on this, im looking for an event that isnt really well known, not something obvious like wwII or something

Answer 1

This is a very good question. Many events which are considered to be very important at the time they occur really have very little long-term impact. A few I think are important are:

The birth of Christ; the discovery of America; the Lewis and Clark Expedition; the California gold rush; the abolition of slavery; the invention of the computer.

Answer 2

It's the 50th anniversary of the launching of Sputnik, the visit man-made satellite to orbit the earth.

Think about how much has changed in a mere 50 years because of satellites: cell phones, wifi, gps, sat phones. Airport control towers will be using GPS instead of whatever they're using now, because it is so superior.

That, or Air Conditioning. Some think tank got together at the end of the millennium to decide what was the most important invention of the 20th century.

Think about it, it completely changed the way we live, work and shop.

Answer 3

If you want to go way back into history, I would have to say that the biggest historical event that has had a long lasting effect on society has to be the discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus. It would be kind of funny if we were still to chicken to go to the edge of the earth. It's that kind of determination that has created the world as we know it. But then again, it's only my opinion.

Answer 4

The Gunpowder Plot in 1605 by the Roman Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes led directly to more than two centuries of reduced civil rights for Roman Catholics in England and Wales. They could not go to university, or get jobs with the government, or with town or county councils. Things were a little better for them in Scotland, but they still did not have equality.

Answer 5

Cuban Missile Crisis (close to WWIII)
Eli Whitney creating cotton gin (origin of industrial revolution)
The use of propaganda and film (especially Germany/US WWII)
The War of 1812 (impact on USA - Star Spangled Banner, popularity of James Madison and Andrew Jackson - gaining "true" Independence from Britain)
Race to create the nuclear bomb in WWII (think about it- what if Germany did it before the US?)

Good luck!

Answer 6

The Emancipation ZProclimation of Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 7

When we (Canada, USA, England et al) won WW 2. Could you just imagine what our world would be like if Nazi German had won! I shutter to think of it.
I know you didn't want this answer, but really, your missing out on something big.

Otherwise:
Apartide
woman's movement
civil rights movement
terrorism
global warming
fall of communism
religion
space exploration
AIDS

Answer 8

The introduction of the internet, the invention of electricity, the invention of the internal combustion engine

Answer 9

the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
9/11
landing on the moon in 1969
discovery of gold in 1849

Answer 10

Application of the 14th Amendment to corporations.