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What were the most important moments in history?

I'm writing a book about someone who goes back in time to change the future (because it's such an entirely original concept). What moments could this person go back in time to change? I mean actual moments consisting of hours or minutes, and what could they do to affect the outcome. E.g. stopping JFK from being assassinated.

Update:

Bonus points if you tell me how you would change that moment and what the effects of it might be.

(I'd rather you went into lots of detail with one than gave me a huge list.)

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    If you kill adolf hitler like what that person above me said, the US might have not recovered from the great depression. A HUGE part of the US getting out of the depression was the war, because we were neutral and we were able to supply food an money, and later while Europe was in a rebuilding stage and had no money, the us gave money to help rebuild and was paid back with interest and the US experience prosperity.

  • Antony
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    WW2 hitler never being able to start war this could lead to america not recovering from the great depression and france being one of the biggest countries too. One of the people who was killed could have done something amazing

    Roman invasion of egypt and england outcome reversed civilisation may have advanced quicker/ slower.

    Martin L King been assassinated the shooter misses and there might be more equality

    Finding use for the EM spectrum . not been able to use Radio waves, Microwaves, Infrared radiation, visible light, ultra Violet, X-rays and, Gamma rays. We use these in nearly everything so if it wasn't discovered then we would still be in the dark ages

    concord crashing. Never happens we could have developed faster more efficient transport and even spacecraft this may have lead to the discovery of life on other planets or finding another habitable planet for people.

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    7 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The Invention of the Wheel

    The Mastering of Fire

    Language use, and drawing pictures.

    Genghis Kahn rising to power.

    The invention of the gun, steam engine, computer chip.

    The Fall of the Roman Empire

    King Alfred sort of kicked out the Danes (Vikings) and created England in a way in the late 880's A.D.

    The birth of Pocket Protecktor.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    al the great empires i guess. rome, the murder of ceasar. the hun army, birth of atilla. the british empire, almost any of the monarchs. ww1, assasination of franz ferdinand ww2, battle of britain (or birth of hitler of course. or the moment life formed on earth. any of them, plus a thousand others really.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, MaoTse Dong etc etc - change so they were never born.

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