The Americas in the twentieth century (1914 – 2000). Two world wars, decolonisation and the technologies that made the present. These articles cover the century within living memory.
A sea-level plan, yellow fever and bankruptcy stopped the French in 1889. The United States finished a lock canal in 1914 on a treaty signed for Panama by a Frenchman.
· 1914A U-2 flight on October 14, 1962 brought back 928 photographs of missile sites in Cuba. Two Khrushchev letters, a lost U-2 and Radio Moscow followed.
· 1962At 102:45:58 on July 20, 1969, Armstrong radioed that the Eagle had landed. The transcript, the 1202 alarms, the fuel calls and quarantine to August 10.
· 1969
