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Events that changed history: Student worksheet

Look at the events that changed history below. Write three of your own. Then
write what would or wouldnt have happened if these events never happened.
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Bell invented the telephone.

Columbus discovered America.
Hitler became leader of Germany.
The World Trade Centre was destroyed.
The 2004 earthquake in the Indian Ocean.
Leonardo Da Vinci was born.
John Logie Baird invented the TV.

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1. If Bell hadnt invented the telephone, I wouldnt have been able to talk
to my friend last night.
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