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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
Civilised world
1899-1900
Western Europe, celebrated the arrival of the new century enthusiastically
new era had arrived,
Second Industrial Revolution
electrical power
car engine
medicine and science were promising a bright future
mass consumption society
several European powers had embarked on an arms race
spiral of rivalry and militarization
Balkans are also known as “the powder keg of Europe”
triumph of Grand Nationalism. On June, 28, 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, along with his wife Sophie were killed by a Hungarian secret society that kicked off WW1
war spanned from the summer of 1914 to November of 1918 It was a massive confrontation between France, Great Britain, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Italy Russia and USA
Peace of Versailles
1919 contemplated strong sanctions for Germany, whom the allies found guilty of the conflic
The interwar period
German media and part of their political class exploited the legend of the stabbing in the back
stock-market bubble
October 1929 Wall Street
Germany, in 1933
the NSDAP, took advantage of the financial crisis and the discontent of the impoverished middle class.
Adolf Hitler
World War II and afterwards
WW2
1939/1945
total death toll is about 50 to 60 million people
atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United Nations were founded to assure that never again there would be a conflict of the magnitude of World War II.
Cold War 1947-1990
Late 20th Century
USSR turned to a federation of states, initially independent but with a clear Russian predominance
was the age of globalization, a new term that appeared in the early 1990s to refer to a more integrated world, based on economic, cultural and political interconnections
The terrorist attack on the New World Trade Center and other targets of interest of the so called hegemonic power. 9/11/2001