The World in the 20th Century.
Early 20th Century and the road to World War I
Late 20th Century
World War II and afterwards
The interwar period (1919-1939)
Western Europe(1899-1900)
In the new century, we are enjoying the
technology.
consumers goods.
luxuries.
Mass consumption society( 1900s)
not yet at their peak.
The Balkans = “the powder keg of Europe”.
Gavrilo Prinzip
murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
this killing served to start WWI.
Josif Stalin, new leader
the Soviet Revolution.
Was triggered by the
brutality and unpopularity of the war.
The German media and their political class
exploited the legend of the stabbing in the back.
Financial crisis (1929)
cause over-inflation
prices of stock products in Wall Street.
The stock-market bubble
caused fall on the value of the stock.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
managed to reverse the situation partially.
NSDAP (1933)
took advantage of the financial crisis
of the impoverished middle class.
The personal obsession of
Adolf Hitler and other European leaders
lebensraun.
antisemitism.
Central Europe
a series of regimes had been established
shifted to authoritarianism
with affinity for German nazism.
moved away from liberal-democratic ideals.
Consequences of World War II
death is 50 to 60 million people
the population moved on to genocide.
The United States
launched two bombs
Hiroshima (August 6, 1945).
Nagasaki (August 9).
Germany
The Western Allies launched an offensive from the west.
The USSR did so from the east.
Influence of the USSR
China
carried out a communist revolution.
Western Europe
began its recovery with the Marshall Plan.
The United Nations
were founded to
avoid large-scale conflicts.
Decolonization
2.Maghreb.
3.sub-Saharan Africa.
1.Asia.
Without the Cold War (1947-1990)
are inconceivable
the Apartheid system.
dictatorships.
Mikhail Gorbachev
his intention was to save
communism for the Soviet Union.
New policies
were based on the ideas of
Perestroika.
Glasnost.
Globalization
based of
cultural.
political interconnections.
economic.
Attack on the New World Trade Center
an opportunity to establish
hegemony.
Unilateral policies (1989-2001)
a foundational period of our time.
Germany and the Central Powers
ended up capitulating
the Peace of Versailles (1919).