2 Apr 1920 Jahr - final script

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Our historical documentary covers the years 1910-1919, the second decade of the 20th century. Our goal here is to inform you on what happened in this decade, covering everything as small as atoms, to the scale of the first world war, in a timeline-esque style, starting in the year 1910.
Rolling into the January 1910 we already have our first huge scientific discovery, Bakelite. A revolutionary invention for packaging and production. Not only was it nonconductive and heat resistant which vastly improved product reliability. But its vast color palette also made it a viable material for art based endeavors. This plastic made for a perfect furniture on things like radios, and old dial telephones, and a century later is still used as a better heat conducting alternative for things like wire insulation and auto body. For the remainder of the year historically it was pretty quiet, Immigration hit an all-time high at 8.8 million immigrants over the last decade, some king died, and the boy scouts of America were founded, a fantastic precursor to some of our favorite snacks today.
More huge scientific discoveries quickly followed in 1911, with the founding of the Rutherford atomic model. Experiments of the New-Zealand born physicist Ernest Rutherford outlined the atom as having a positively charged nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons, a huge step into fully understanding anatomy. In July of this same year the lost city of Machu Picchu was discovered, this “lost city” became an extremely popular tourist destination in Peru, and is theorized to have possibly been a summer home for ancient Inca leaders.
However, more tourists were visiting the Uk than ever before next year. In 1912, the 52,000 ton “unsinkable” titanic set sail from Southampton, housing over 2,000 passengers headed to New York. The titanic possibly the most famous ship of all time is not just a story told over and over across generations, the highest grossing movie outside of the avatar and marvel franchises, but also the first headliner cruise ship… which yes, did crash. However, beyond the story the titanic was, well titanic for luxury travel, an industry which today is worth almost a trillion dollars. This year also highlighted the end of China’s 2000 year imperial rule, starting a republic revolution which founded many new countries, like Taiwan. The rest of the year consisted with the fifth international summer Olympic games, and the founding of the Girl Scouts of America, however the cookies did not follow for another five years.
In 1913 more huge leaps in science were made, starting with the Danish Physicist Niels Bohr, whose foundings on the Rutherford model of the atom are still used today. The Bohr model is a system consisting of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons—similar to the structure of the Solar System, but with attraction provided by electrostatic forces in place of gravity. Following that event the discovery of stainless steel by English metallurgist Harry Brearly was discovered through an experimental mixture of chromium with an iron-carbon mix. This year was jam-packed with inventions still used today too, most notably the Harrison Ford assembly line, which im sure needs no explanation as it is still the strongest method worldwide in assembly.
Then, enter World War One, on June 28th, 1914 the Archduke, Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, then, just one month later Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia kicking off what would soon be the first world war. Germany got involved, and started a huge chain of invasions across Europe. In order to stop Germany, countries had to ally together to create a stronger military force, these “Allies” were eventually to include Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, Romania, Greece, France, Belgium, United States, Canada, Serbia, India, Portugal, Montenegro, and Poland. And on September 9, 1914 the allied forces halt the German advance into France, and needless to say, Germany got mad.
Germany’s first move was to start a Naval blockade of Great Britain, in order to try and cut off any resources or supplies the other allies may try to send, unfortunately for Germany this plan backfired. Big time. As at the time Germany’s only real alliances were the central powers in Austria-Hungary and Turkey, a counter-blockade by the allies proved much more effective in cutting off German resources. Fast forward a few months and many battles have been taking place, out of the bunch 1915’s key moment was the Gallipoli campaign. During the Gallipoli Campaign, France and Britain launched an attack on the Germany allied Ottoman Empire, in Turkey. Winston Churchill (The Prime Minister of the UK) wanted to attack Germany and Austria from the East in order to sever the blockage to Russia caused by the Ottoman empire. This battle caused over 180,000 casualties for the Allies and resulted in a failure, retreating in January 1916, leaving Russia benched for most of the war. In February of 1916 Germany initiates the largest battle yet in the war, in an attempt to overthrow the key link in the Allies, France. The French are able to contain Germany until eventually reaching a meeting between leaders, which ended up unsuccessful. The war continued on for 300 more days, and in a French offensive victory, caused over 700,000 casualties, which was more or less equal between the two nations. After remaining quiet for the first few years, the United states grew annoyed with Germany’s persistence, after launching a huge attack on Britains blockade’s Germany had tipped the US over the edge, President Woodrow Wilson declares war on Germany, and within less than a year, by 1918 there are over 1 MILLION US troops in the conflict, and over 2 million by the wars end. Long story short once the US Army got involved the war was pretty much over for Germany and their allies. France tries to invade Germany one last time and fails, Russia’s lack of defenses leaves 2 million casualties, forcing a peace treaty with Germany, and soon Germany signed another armistice with the allies after being overwhelmed primarily by US forces. This armistice led to the Treaty of Versailles, Possibly the most controversial treaty of all time. The signing of this document was essentially the official end of the 1st world war, it held the rules that Germany had to follow after the war. This treaty made it so Germany had to pay reparations, disarm their military, lose territory, and give up their overseas colonies, and while there was peace between these nations, there was another outbreak happening in the United states.
The Spanish was a rapidly spreading pandemic, where almost no one had an immunity to it. The virus infected around 500 million people globally, and it was very hard to contain and combat because of the very limited medical technology back in the day, this wave of illness lasting over two years with seemingly no counter killed over 700,000 americans, until the pandemic ended in the early 20s.
Closing out the year 1919, the former Allies from World War 1 formed something known as the league of nations. This league consisted of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan and four non-permanent members that were elected by the Assembly for a three-year term. The first non-permanent members were Belgium, Brazil, Greece and Spain. The goal of the league of nations was to maintain world peace in order to prevent another world war, leaving this decade off on a very good note.

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