I say it's a toss up between the Holocaust and 9/11
I say it's a toss up between the Holocaust and 9/11
Apollo 11 moon landing.
9/11, JFK, Moon landing
Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. What a game.
Your historical knowledge has clearly come from watching Hollywood movies.
The so-called ‘holocaust’ was an irrelevancy in the context of the major events of World War Two.
WTC wrote:
Your historical knowledge has clearly come from watching Hollywood movies.
The so-called ‘holocaust’ was an irrelevancy in the context of the major events of World War Two.
Sorry Hitler
1) Civil War
2) Some of the film still held by the US government of our rape of cuba, the Phillipines, Japan and Korea by our boy Teddy Roosevelt.
Jersey Shore - it may be recent history but impact was huge
Here is a video about Normam Borlaug. There are more. His is widely credited with saving more lives than anyone who has ever lived, possibly billions. I know it does not have the dramatic, iconic, instant, video nature of 9/11 or Apollo, but his achievements are more important and were filmed.
Atom Bombs detonating in Japan during WW2.
The Long Green Line
jelly belly wrote:
Apollo 11 moon landing.
This.
Snatch wrote:
Here is a video about Normam Borlaug. There are more. His is widely credited with saving more lives than anyone who has ever lived, possibly billions. I know it does not have the dramatic, iconic, instant, video nature of 9/11 or Apollo, but his achievements are more important and were filmed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdivK9PwLX8
Wow, interesting stuff. Thanks for the link.
Germans rolling into Poland 1939 (probably most influential on future events), Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Lunar landing, 9/11
harpo wrote:
Atom Bombs detonating in Japan during WW2.
This.
The development and use of the A-Bomb had such broad and wide reaching effects it's very hard to think of another event which had such impact on the world as a whole.
i'm surprised no one has mentioned the Rastely films... huge film project detailing the civil rights movement from multiple angles and viewpoints
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
ipod banana bread wrote:
I say it's a toss up between the Holocaust and 9/11
9/11 was utterly trivial in the grand scheme of things. It is blown up out of all proportion by US politicians to manipulate an incredibly gullible population.
A tragedy, sure. But barely a blip in the course of history.
This is a no brainer:
Elvis Presley's World Televised Satellite Concert in 1973, known as "Aloha from Hawaii"!
MLK's speech on the mall ("I have a dream"). The fact that the march and speech were televised across the US cemented the fate of Jim Crow and segregation. People today do not fully understand just how prevalent and persistent racism was in the south in the 1960s. The significance of that movement would resonate through the fall of communism to the Arab spring.