world history technolegy timeline by Terrell Jones _ Student - SouthGarnerHS https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc Made with a little mischief en-us 2022-03-29 17:11:21 UTC 2026-01-27 14:17:59 UTC hello@padlet.com The World Trade Organization is founded tmjones24 https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123937134 The World Trade Organization is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade between nations. Governments use the organization to establish, revise, and enforce the rules that govern international trade.]]> 2022-03-31 16:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123937134 The Printing Press is invented tmjones24 https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123941970 German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436, although he was far from the first to automate the book-printing process. Woodblock printing in China dates back to the 9th century and Korean bookmakers were printing with moveable metal type a century before Gutenberg.]]> 2022-03-31 16:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123941970 Facebook launches tmjones24 https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123948801 On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, and that was only the beginning.]]> 2022-03-31 16:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123948801 Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt tmjones24 https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123951625 The embattled political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica announced on Wednesday that it would cease most operations and file for bankruptcy amid growing legal and political scrutiny of its business practices and work for Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign.]]> 2022-03-31 16:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123951625 The Battle of Thermopylae ends in defeat for the Greeks tmjones24 https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123954295 After three days of holding their own against the Persian king Xerxes I and his vast southward-advancing army, the Greeks were betrayed, and the Persians were able to outflank them. Sending the main army in retreat, Leonidas and a small contingent remained behind to resist the advance and were defeated.]]> 2022-03-31 16:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123954295 The Battle of the Somme begins tmjones24 https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123956586 On the morning of July 1, 11 divisions of the British 4th Army (many of them volunteer soldiers going into battle for the first time) began advancing on a 15-mile front north of the Somme.]]> 2022-03-31 16:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123956586 An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki tmjones24 https://padlet.com/tmjones24/d1fde16p459sbtkc/wish/2123961739 On August 9, 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender.


The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender.

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