🌀 Big Spiral History 🩷 Space 19

Space 19: The Modern Age I

1900–1949: wars, dictators, flight, and film

1900 – 1949

← Space 18 All spaces Space 20 →

Space 19: The Modern Age I

🩷 1900–1949: wars, dictators, flight, and film · 1900 – 1949

Each dot below is an address on your wall. Read the story, talk it through, draw a small icon, tape it at the dot.

This space holds 12 stories.

🩷 Dot 1 · 1900s

1909 When peaceful campaigning fails, Emmeline Pankhurst leads British suffragettes to break the law and go to prison, then refuse food — forcing the government either to release them or force tubes down their throats.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 1 (1909)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

🩷 Dot 2 · 1910s

1914 After nearly a century without a major war, in a Europe increasingly connected by trade and travel, a nationalist assassinates the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne… and within weeks, the continent is tearing itself apart in the First World War.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 2 (1914)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

1917 Germany helps Vladimir Lenin pass across Europe in a sealed train, hoping he will destabilize their enemy Russia; months later, his revolutionaries seize the capital and begin building the world’s first Communist state.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 2 (1917)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

🩷 Dot 3 · 1920s

1929 The Dutch rulers of Indonesia lock Sukarno in prison for leading the movement to drive them out and rule themselves.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 3 (1929)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

🩷 Dot 4 · 1930s

1933 With the economy spiraling out of control, Adolf Hitler takes control of Germany.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 4 (1933)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

1930 At the edge of the sea, surrounded by thousands of followers, Mohandas Gandhi defies the British rulers of India by picking up a single fistful of salt.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 4 (1930)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

1933 As terrified Americans rush to pull their savings from banks, Franklin Roosevelt closes every bank in the country, then goes on the radio to ask them to put their money back.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 4 (1933)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

1936 Joseph Stalin takes total control of Russia by arresting his fellow former revolutionaries, forcing them to confess to invented crimes, and then executing them.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 4 (1936)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

🩷 Dot 5 · 1940s

1940 The Nazis take France and pin Britain’s army against the sea, but hundreds of ships large and small whisk the soldiers home — and Winston Churchill rallies the country to fight on alone.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 5 (1940)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

1942 Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager, disappears behind a bookcase in Amsterdam and begins her famous diary.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 5 (1942)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

1945 The Japanese city of Hiroshima is destroyed in a moment by a single American atomic bomb.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 5 (1945)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.

1948 Jewish leaders declare the State of Israel, creating a new homeland for the Jewish people amid war, Palestinian displacement, and competing claims to the same land.

📍 Address: Space 19 · Dot 5 (1948)

Full tellable script coming — the summary above is the story seed.