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The World in the 20th Century - Coggle Diagram
The World in the 20th Century
The interwar period (1919-1939)
1933 - NSDAP :arrow_right: established ultra-nationalist discourse
leader - Hitler
Lebensraun - obsession
antisemitism
Europe - authoritarianism, nazism
September 1, 1939 :arrow_right: violation of the Polish border
October 1929 :arrow_right: financial crisis
stock-market bubble :arrow_right: unsustainable
small investors :arrow_right: bankrupt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt :arrow_right: managed the situation
German media :arrow_right: Stabbing in the back
8 - 10 million deaths
recovery 1920's
World War II and afterwards
Meetings
Tehran (1943)
Yalta (February 1945)
Potsdam (July of 1945)
Soviet forces :arrow_right: control of Berlin (May 2, 1945)
Western Allies and USSR :arrow_right: offensive on Germany
the Marshall Plan Recovery :arrow_right: of Europe (US financial help)
atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9)
Treaty of Rome (1957)
50 - 60 million deaths :arrow_right: genocide
United Nations
General Assembly
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
Decolonization (began in Asia and moved to Maghreb)
Cold War (1947-1990)
conflicts
Korean War (1950-1953)
Cuban Revolution (1959)
Vietnam War (1965-1975)
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973)
Angolan Civil War (1975-2002)
Mozambican Civil War (1977-1993)
Nicaraguan Revolution (1979-1990)
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979- 1989)
Apartheid system (1948-2002)
Late 20th Century
globalization (1990) :arrow_right: more integrated world / fast succession of developments
9/11/2001 :arrow_right: terrorist attack New World Trade Center
new challenges for the US
opportunity to establish this Western World hegemony as a superpower
situacions Central Europe
Communist regimes fell in Romania, Poland and Czechoslovakia
Germany unified
Yugoslavia shattered into Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia
Berlin Wall dismantled (November 9, 1989)
USSR :arrow_right: federation of states
new policies - based on ideas of Perestroika and Glasnost
1989 - Communist block began its dismantling
Early 20th Century and the road to World War I
1919 - Germany and other countries :arrow_right: Peace of Versailles
1917 - Russia retreats :arrow_right: Soviet Revolution
World War I (1914 - 1918)
triumph of Grand Nationalism
June, 28, 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were murdered :arrow_right: Start World War I
mass consumption society (1900)
problems:
several European powers :arrow_right: rivalry and militarization (Balkans and colonial territories)
2nd Industrial Revolution
electrical power
the car engine
transatlantic crossings
medicine and science :arrow_right: bright future
1899-1900 - arrival of the new century (Western Europe)