🌀 Big Spiral History 🩷 Space 20

Space 20: The Modern Age II

1950–1999: the Cold War, space, and the Web

1950 – 1999

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Space 20: The Modern Age II

🩷 1950–1999: the Cold War, space, and the Web · 1950 – 1999

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 11 stories.

🩷 Dot 1 · 1950s

1955 In a calculated act of nonviolence, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking a boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 1 (1955)

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1954 After returning from America disgusted by its racism, consumerism, sexual freedom, and shallow religion, Sayyid Qutb is thrown into an Egyptian prison, where he becomes one of the thinkers who will shape radical Islamism.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 1 (1954)

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🩷 Dot 2 · 1960s

1962 As the United States and the Soviet Union reach the brink over nuclear missiles in Cuba, a single Russian officer, trapped in a sweltering, hunted submarine, must make a fateful decision.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 2 (1962)

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1962 As science protects crops from ravenous insects, Rachel Carson, a dying scientist, sounds the alarm that these pesticides are spreading up the food chain to kill birds, too.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 2 (1962)

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1966 Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution, turning children against their own teachers and parents as he tries to purge China of forbidden ideas and enforce loyalty to himself.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 2 (1966)

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1968 With populations growing and food shortages looming, Norman Borlaug breeds a short, sturdy wheat that provides India and Pakistan with vastly more grain, saving a billion people from starving.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 2 (1968)

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🩷 Dot 3 · 1970s

1978 Deng Xiaoping gives Chinese farmers and business owners the chance to get rich, embracing capitalism without loosening the Communist Party’s grip on society.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 3 (1978)

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1979 After Iranians push out their autocratic ruler, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to cheering millions — then turns their revolution into an Islamic state.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 3 (1979)

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🩷 Dot 4 · 1980s

1989 When an official fumbles an announcement on TV, East Germans rush the Berlin Wall and overwhelm its guards; by nightfall, the symbol of the Cold War has become a ruin.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 4 (1989)

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🩷 Dot 5 · 1990s

1993 Tim Berners-Lee gives away the World Wide Web for free.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 5 (1993)

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1995 After South Africa ends decades of vicious white rule, Bishop Desmond Tutu offers victims a chance to tell the country what was done to them, and perpetrators a chance to escape punishment… but only by telling the full truth of their crimes.

📍 Address: Space 20 · Dot 5 (1995)

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