The Top 10 for the 20th Century: National Affairs

摘要

The following events, many totally unexpected, changed the course of American history and the lives of our people in the century that has just passed. Any selection of 10 significant dates is bound to be personal and arbitrary. Crucial events such as the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandals, and the Information Revolution have been omitted because they do not unfold in one flash. The following dates began a series of events that left the U.S. a different country.