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20th CENTURY - Coggle Diagram
20th CENTURY
WORLD WAR II AND AFTERWARDS
The total death toll is about 50 to 60 million people.
genocide and attrition warfare were a way to force public opinion
The Western Allies launched an offensive on Germany from the west, while the USSR did so from the east.
Revelant meetings: Theran (1943), Yalta (February 1945) and Potsdam (July 1945)
The marshall plan.
The United Nations were founded to assure that never again there would be a conflict of the magnitude of World War.
Decolonization began in Asia, moved to the Maghreb, and then to sub-Saharan Africa.
Cold War (1947 - 1990)
Apartheid system in the Republic of South Africa (1948-2002)
EARLY 20th CENTURY AND THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR I
1899 - 1900 (civilised world) celebrated the arrival of the new century enthusiastically
By the early 1900s, mass consumption society and the new conuming habits.
The Balkans are also known as “the powder keg of Europe”.
On June, 28, 1914, Gavrilo Prinzip, acting on behalf of the Black Hand.
The killing of Black Hand start the World War I
The war spanned from the summer of 1914 to November of 1918.
The brutality and unpopularity of the war helped trigger the Soviet Revolution.
Germany and the rest of the Central Powers ended up capitulating: the Peace of Versailles (1919)
THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1919 - 1939)
the German media and part of their political class exploited the legend of the stabbing in the back.
The fact is that 4 years of conflict and between 8 and 10 million deaths across Europe have demanded a ceasefire.
In late October 1929, there was a terrible financial crisis.
The stock-market bubble was simply unsustainable and when stock-holders realized, they started to sell their shares.
Meanwhile, in Germany, in 1933, a party, the NSDAP, took advantage of the financial crisis and the discontent of the impoverished middle class.
Hitler’s personal obsession was Lebensraun, the vital space, along with his pathological antisemitism.
These regimes shifted to authoritarianism, sometimes with a clear affinity for German nazism.
Central Europe, as well as its south, were rapidly moving away from liberal-democratic ideals.
LATE 20th CENTURY
In 1989 the Communist block began its dismantling from within
Perestroika Reform
Glasnost Transparency
Globalization, a new term that appeared in the early 1990s to refer to a more integrated world
9/11/2001 - The terrorist attack on the New World Trade Center.
Western World hegemony.
Unilateral policies can be taken also as a distinct period.