These excellent timelines and chronologies provide succinct histories of the century.
How much do you really know about the 20th century? Take these history quizzes to test your knowledge of history.
Browse through this history timeline of the 20th century to examine each decade within this amazing century.
Follow the progression of the Vietnam War, from the beginning of French colonization to the dedication of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C., in this wonderful timeline of the Vietnam War.
Infoplease.com offers this fantastic year-by-year and decade-by-decade history (scroll to the middle of the page) of the world during the 20th century.
Although this timeline begins in 1517, it focuses on black history of the 19th and 20th centuries, providing important milestones in black history in the United States.
A great timeline for young people, created and written by elementary school students.
A different, yet interesting, timeline of the years 1900 to 1929. Includes events not typically found on the usual timeline.
A decade-by-decade history of the United States. Includes a brief vignette about each decade, a collection of images, and a listing of important dates. Use the links at the top of the timeline to navigate to additional decades.
A fascinating timeline of important events in communications history - including cameras, telephones, computers, and more.
A great timeline covering the major nuclear development (and non-development) milestones of the century. Each decade includes some textual information about the nuclear events of the decade.
This innovative timeline from PBS provides a handful of key events of the twentieth century, organized into over two dozen sub-timelines. Each of the timelines are clickable and provide timeline data in the window below the main timeline.
A fascinating timeline from PBS that provides a history of technology in a nutshell.
An irreverent look at the 20th century. Roger Wilcox includes some lighthearted events (i.e. 1977 - Star Wars is released...) among the essentials of 20th century history.
The events leading up to and during World War II in Europe, from the History Place.
