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World History Chart
www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Excellent timeline of key events that took place worldwide during the 20th century, plus sections on people, history and maps.

History On-Line
www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Period/twentieth.html
Excellent gateway page for 20th-century historical sites and international news archives.

Year by Year – 1900-2001
www.factmonster.com/millennium1.html
Site designed for kids to browse and test their knowledge of historical facts, natural disasters and movies and entertainment throughout the 1900s.

Great Speeches
www.history.com/media.do?action=listing&sortBy=1&sortOrder=A&topic=GREAT%20SPEECHES
Listen to audio clips of speeches from famous broadcasts by artists, philosophers, politicians, astronauts and royalty.

1900s Military History Timeline
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/timeline/a/20thcentime.htm
Timeline from the Boxer Rebellion to the Iraq War. Lots of links along the way.

Governments
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20c-govt.htm
Search by decade to reveal coloured graphs depicting the types of rule (including Communist states, military juntas and democracies) and their influence across the globe.

The Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/index.html
The official site of the foundation set up in 1901 to honour the world's most eminent laureates in the fields of science, literature, peace and economics.

Music History Online: Music of the 20th century
www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory40.htm
Comprehensive survey, ranging from neo-romanticism to experimental music.

Artists and Art Movements
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/
ARTH20thcentury.html#Early20century
Comprehensive gateway site to websites devoted to the major artists (and the lesser-known ones) of each movement.

That'll Teach 'Em
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/teachem/
This Channel 4 series put 30 16-year-olds through a re-creation of a 1950s' boarding school and the academic rigour of O-levels. The website shows some of the ways that education today is very different from education in the 1950s. It also addresses the education debate with articles asking why people have always criticised education and what is worthy of praise in it today.

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