World History Timeline: Identity by Brandon Torres-Lopez _ Student - SouthGarnerHS

The World Trade Organization is founded

btorreslopez2_ — 2024-01-08 18:26:15 UTC

The USA, China and Germany are the countries that benefit the most worldwide from their accession to the WTO. They achieve by far the largest income gains and the importance of WTO is that it helps its members use trade as a means to raise living standards, create jobs and improves people's lives.

The Printing Press is invented

btorreslopez2_ — 2024-01-08 18:30:17 UTC

The printing press affected literacy in Renaissance Europe. The printing revolution also contributed mightily to the Protestant Reformation that split apart the Catholic Church and the importance of the printing press revolutionized society by standardizing language, spreading ideas, increasing literacy, and growing the printing industry.

Facebook launches

btorreslopez2_ — 2024-01-08 18:40:25 UTC

the social network has transformed people's relationships, privacy, their businesses, the news media, helped topple regimes and even changed the meaning of everyday words.Aug 28, 2015 and the importance of face book is It can be used to connect people with friends, family, colleagues at work, and even strangers bassically to have fun

Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt

btorreslopez2_ — 2024-01-08 18:44:49 UTC

The idea of political persuasion and data mining suddenly felt very close to every Facebook user, and the aftermath of the scandal included rethinking the ethics of data privacy and the growing impact of social media on electoral politics. Cambridge Analytica still impacts the digital democracy space today and the effect of Cambridge Analytica going bankrupt is that the Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $725m (£600m) to settle legal action over a data breach linked to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.Dec 23, 2022

The Battle of Thermopylae ends in defeat for the Greeks

btorreslopez2_ — 2024-01-08 18:47:11 UTC

expanded the Persian empire even further. Today the Battle of Thermopylae is celebrated as an example of heroic persistence against seemingly impossible odds And the importance of this is The Persian victory at Thermopylae allowed for Xerxes' passage into southern Greece, which expanded the Persian empire even further.

The Battle of the Somme begins

btorreslopez2_ — 2024-01-08 18:48:24 UTC

. Britain would go on to take another 360,000 casualties the French over 200,000 and the Germans over 500,000 in a fight which would come to define First World War and the importance of this is inflicted serious damage on German positions in France, spurring the Germans to strategically retreat to the Hindenburg Line in March 1917 rather than continue battling over the same land that spring

An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

btorreslopez2_ — 2024-01-08 18:51:55 UTC

By the end of 1945, the bombing had killed an estimated 140,000 people in Hiroshima, and a further 74,000 in Nagasaki. In the years that followed, many of the survivors would face leukemia, cancer, or other terrible side effects from the radiation and the importance of this is that it had led to the fateful decision to deploy these new weapons of mass destruction