:: Great Events of the Last Century ::

(a brief time-line and compendium of reference sources)

1913 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System

1914-18 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

1917 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution

1919 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations

1928 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Conspiracy

1929 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

1929-32 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

1933 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree

1933-45 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

1934 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act

1939-45 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

1941 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services

1944 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

1945 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

1947 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency

1948 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade

1949 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

1953 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

1963 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy

1971 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

1984 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84

1992 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge

1993 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

1995 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

1995 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization

1997 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis

2000-01 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron

2000 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000

2001 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

2001 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

2001 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

2001 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–14)

2003 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

2003 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi

2008 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–08

2014 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant

2016 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016