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The World in the 20th Century. What we have become - Coggle Diagram
The World in the 20th Century. What we have become
Early 20th Century and the road to World War I
1899-1900, civilised world in Western Europe
Second Industrial Revolution
The electrical power, the car engine, transatlantic crossings and so forth. Good future in medicine.
early 1900s
mass consumption society
The Balkans
the powder keg of Europe
triumph of Grand Nationalism.
The murder of the heir to the Austro-Hongarian throne served as a pretext to start World War I.
Since summer of 1914 to November of 1918
Confrontation between France, Great Britain, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Italy, Russia and the United States , among others, on the one side and Germany, Austro-Hongary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria on the other.
1917
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
late October 1929
stock-market bubble
Germany, in 1933
NSDAP, took advantage of the financial crisis and the discontent of the impoverished middle class.
The Nazi party began to direct its anger against minorities
Lebensraun and antisemitism
In Central Europe, since the end of World War I
a series of traditional regimes without a democratic background had been established
authoritarianism, nazism and liberal-democratic
violation of the Polish border on September 1, 1939.
World War II and afterwards
consequences of World War II
loss of lives was particularly hard in the case of the USSR, Germany, Poland and Japan.
genocides
about 50 to 60 million people death
United States provoked the Japanese surrender by dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Western Allies launched an offensive on Germany
Soviet forces gained control of Berlin on May 2, 1945.
conferences
Tehran (1943)
Yalta (February 1945)
Potsdam (July of 1945)
1947
former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sourly reflected on "iron curtain that had fallen from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic"
Eastern Europe was increasingly falling under the influence of the USSR
China was waging a communist revolution
Post-war recovery of Europe
The Marshall Plan
Europe formed the European Community
forerunner of the European Union with the signature of the Treaty of Rome (1957)
United Nations
to assure that never again there would be a conflict of the magnitude of World War II
The US and the USSR turned the World into a kind of geo-strategic chessboard.
The UN, the Organization of the African Union and the non-aligned countries that emerged from the Bandung Conference played a key role in the decolonization process
It started in Asia and moved to the Maghreb, , and then to sub-Saharan Africa (mass decolonization of 1960)
Guerra Freda (1947-1990)
long survival of the Apartheid system in the Republic of South Africa (1948-2002)
and of many African and Latin American dictatorships is inconceivable without the framework of the Cold War.
Late 20th Century
new polices (1989 to 2001)
Perestroika (Reform)
Glasnost (Transparency)
unilateral
early 21st Century
age of globalization
events:
9/11/2001 meant new challenges for the US and their allies
an opportunity to establish this Western World hegemony as a superpower
The triumph of the capitalistic free world
9/11/2001, the terrorist attack on the New World Trade Center