-World peace overall since 1945, no world wars.
-Ongoing wars, violence (especially against women), and atrocities in remote parts of the world along with global hunger and geographical displacements and migrations
-1950: first organ transplants foreshadowing all the modern medical miracles to come
-1962: Cuban Missile Crisis; if Kennedy hadn’t stood up to Krushchev, North America might have been suddenly atom-bombed
-1957: Russian Sputnik, later followed by 1962’s John Glenn flight; The Age of Space Exploration; from space to Mars and the outer planet missions
-Polio vaccine given worldwide in 1952, thereby foreshadowing all other vaccines, including Covid, up to today
-1953: the discovery of DNA and how this has changed everything biological and chemical; the ability to change inner workings of homo sapiens
-1963: Kennedy assassinated; funeral takes over most home tv coverage for a few days; the idea that great/famous people can be killed suddenly, strangely, and mysteriously; the power of media coverage
-1974: Nixon resigns when threatened with impeachment; later Trump will be impeached twice and refuse to go; thereby showing the extent to which a North American country’s leader can be totally corrupt and defiant of the rule of law; 1974: the watershed year of corruption in American politics which would never be eradicated
-1980s: the proliferation of Apple and IBM computers; later followed by smartphones in the 2000s; personalized electronic computer-phone devices change our way of life
-1989: Berlin Wall falls; the more serious beginning of globalization and a global economy
-1990s: the ideology of diversity seriously arrives in Canada
-2001: Twin Towers 9/11–the beginning of world-wise terrorism on a global scale as shown on tv; killing of innocents on the streets becomes more common
-2008: first black president elected, foreshadowing American diversity culture to come and civil rights returning as an ongoing issue to today
-2021: Biden elected: American democracy is saved from annihilation (its loss would have serious affected Canada and changed the world forever)