Friday, 11 May 2012

Events that influence art

Key events of the twentieth century:

1912 - RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on 15 April 1912, after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. On April 14, 1912 at zdezeniu ship inside the hull to buckle in several places on his right side was destroyed, and opened five of its sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. In the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water and sank with more than a thousand people on board. It killed 1514 people. those in the water died within minutes of hypothermia by the freezing ocean.While the larger ships were built, the Titanic was the largest ship on the water during its maiden voyage. Her passengers were among the richest people in the world, and over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and others seeking a new life in North America. Advanced security features have been used, but lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all persons on board. Many of those who survived lost their money and belongings and left without a way of life.
Titanic was one of the bridge of ships known in history, her memory kept alive by many books, folk songs, films, exhibitions, and memorie.

1914 - 1918 - World War I

02.jpg (14033 bytes)World War I from the beginning until 1939 was a major war centered in Europe, which began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It covered all the powers of the two opposition alliances and central. more than seventy million military, including 60 million Europeans have been mobilized in one of the greatest wars in history. More than nine million combatants died, mainly due to the great technological advances in firepower without adequate progress in mobility. It was the sixth deadliest conflict in world history. On 28 July, open conflict with the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia after the German invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg and France and the Russian attack on Germany. In the East, the Russian army successfully fought against the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but was forced back by German troops. Russian Empire collapsed in March 1917, and Russia left the war after the October Revolution years later. Germany, which had their own problems with the revolutionaries at the time, agreed to a ceasefire on 11 November 1918, later known as the Day Suspension Broni.Wojna ended in victory for the Allies. At the end of the war, four imperial power, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ceased to exist. The successor states of the former two had lost a large amount of territory, and two others were destroyed completely. Map of Central Europe was redrawn into several smaller states.

1940 - Battle of Britain

Heinkel He 111 during the Battle of Britain.jpgBattle of Britain air campaign mainly over southern and central England, fought between the German and British air force during World War II, during the period from 10 July to 31 October 1940. Is also defined as the Battle of Britain, especially in British historiography. This was the first campaign waged only by air.
The interval of the battle July 10 to October 31 was introduced by British historians, and refers to the period of most intense air raids took place in the course of the day. German historians often use the time interval August 1940 to May 1941.




1939 - 1945 - World War II

The largest military conflict in world history, which lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. Some episodes of the war played out even in the Arctic and North America. The main parties to the conflict were the Axis and the anti-Hitler coalition. In war, 1.7 billion people attended, including 110 million with a gun. According to various estimates, were killed in it from 502 to 783 million people. September 3 entered the war Britain and France. Some historians as the beginning of World War I consider Sino-Japanese war, launched on 7 July 1937 invasion of Japanese troops. A harbinger of the coming conflict was the rise of nationalist sentiments and aspirations of the expansive from the Axis, which expresses itself in an attack by Benito Mussolini ruled Italy in Abyssinia. From Italy, another example of violation of international law and expansionism was the seizure of Albania in Spring




1950- War in Korea


The Korean War, starting with the June 25, 1950 to 27 July 1953. The war between the Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Korean War was primarily a result of a political division of Korea under an agreement with the victorious Allies at the end of the war in the Pacific at the end of World War II. Korean peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan to end World War II.
There are no free elections throughout the Korean peninsula deepened the division between the two parties. The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean troops invaded South Korea. This was the first major armed conflict of the Cold War. In 1950, the Soviet Union boycotted the UN Security Council in protest at the representation of China government, which fled to Taiwan after defeat in the Chinese civil war.
341 000 international troops who support the South Korean forces with twenty other countries, UN aid the victim. Suffering heavy losses, within two months, the defenders were pushed to a small area known as the Pusan ​​perimeter. The active phase of the war ended on 27 July 1953, when the agreement was signed ceasefire. The agreement restored the border between the Koreas near the 38th parallel and created the Korean demilitarized zone, but little fighting continues to this day. Both North Korea and South Korea sponsored by external forces, the Korean War was a proxy war.



1963 - Death of Kennedy's assassination in

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35, president of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 am Central Standard on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife. Kennedy is the last of the four presidents who were assassinated. He went to Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley, all of them fatally shot.
Ten months of investigation by the Warren Commission which stated that the president was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.
These requests were initially supported by the American public, but polls found that 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there is a conspiracy or cover-up.United States House Select Committee on the killings in 1979, said that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. Agreeing with the Commission that Oswald fired all the shots that caused the wound Kennedy, concluded that there were at least four Shots. This assassination is still a subject of general debate and spawned numerous conspiracy theories and alternative scenarios.

 1969 - Landing on the Moon (Armstrong and Aldrin)


Apollo 11 wylądował pierwszych ludzi, Amerykanie Neil Armstrong i Edwin Aldrina na Księżyca w dniu 20 lipca 1969 roku. Misja uważa się ważnym osiągnięciem w historii eksploracji.
 Wystrzelony z Kennedy Space Center organizowania skomplikowanych 39 w Merritt Island na Florydzie był trzecia księżycowy misji. Załoga składała się z Armstronga i Aldrina jako dowódca jako pilot modułu księżycowego, z wierszem Module Pilot Michael Collins. Armstrong i Aldrin wylądowali na Morzu Spokoju i stał się pierwszym ludziom stanął na Księżycu. Ich księżycowy moduł, Eagle, spędził 21 godzin 31 minut na powierzchni Księżyca, natomiast Collins pozostał na orbicie w poleceniu modułu Columbia. [Trzy astronauci wrócili na Ziemię 24 lipca, lądowanie w Oceanie Spokojnym. Przywieźli z powrotem 47,5 funtów 21.5 kg.
 Apollo 11 spełniony cel prezydenta USA Johna F. Kennedy'ego lotu na Księżyc przed Związkiem Radzieckim: "Wierzę, że ten naród powinien zobowiązać się do osiągnięcia celu, przed tym dziesięcioleciu jest obecnie, z lądowania człowieka na Księżycu i powrocie go bezpiecznie na Ziemię ".



1978 - The election of Cardinal Wojtyla as pope
16 October 1978 from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel white smoke rose. Soon, stunned world learned of the new successor to the Holy Pope
of distant Polish.
September 29 the same year, after 33 days of his death, John Paul I. After the funeral, there was a ten, the shortest of the possible, the required provisions of the Constitution of the Apostolic period. For the 111 candidates, this was the time of reviewing candidates.
Initially, the candidates appeared in the names only of Italian favorites, including the conservative Cardinal Giuseppe Siri
of Florence. On the first day, two wounded and two Southern votes, no one has obtained the required number of two-thirds plus one. Cardinal Wojtyla got 5 votes. After the seventh glossing Wojtyla although lacking the required majority ran. The real breakthrough turns out to be a statement by Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, who openly advocates for Wojtyla. In the eighth and final ballot, Cardinal Wojtyla of voted for him 94 candidates. In homage to his predecessors, takes the name John Paul II.


1977 - The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Resyjska nuclear power plant in Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is decommissioned nuclear power plant near the town of Pripyat in the Ukraine, 11 miles from the Ukrainian-Belarusian border and about 68 miles north of Kiev. Reactor 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the plant is now known as the large area bounded by the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Nuclear power plant site to be deleted in the direction of this order came into force.


1989-   The fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier built by the German Democratic Republic from the day that completely cut off from the surrounding West Berlin and East Germany from East Berlin barrier. The wall was erected to protect its citizens from fascist elements conspiring to prevent. In practice, the wall was used to prevent mass emigration and defection. coined as a wall of shame and condemnation by the mayor of Walla, a restriction on freedom of movement. 3.5 million limit emigration eastern block, the number of crossing the border from East Berlin to West Berlin. Between 1961 and 1989, the wall to prevent nearly all such emigration. about 5,000 people tried to escape over the wall, with estimates of fatalities resulting varying between 100 and 200After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989, all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Over the next few weeks, a euphoric public and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall, the governments of industrial equipment later used to remove most of the other. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification.


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