1870-1945 age of extremes

By tatsuma

  • IMPERIALISM （colonial expansion）

    The transition from commodity plunder to capital plunder worldwide
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    THE 2ND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

    It began in the United States and Germany.
    It was based on the use of new energy sources and changes in work organization.

  • DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE

    It devised new system to sell the increased production. INTERNATIONAL TRADE- It acquired a global dimension because of improved transportation methods and the growth of industrial production.

  • NEW MEANS OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION (1860-1903)

    Shorten the space-time distance
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    WWI

  • RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. THE CREATION OF THE USSR

  • PARIS CONFERENCE, LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF WWI

    America forced China to be shared by all at the conference in Washington.
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    WORLD WAR II

  • Tehran Conference

    The United States, Soviet Union and Britain discussed redrawing the world

  • Yalta conference

    Mark the beginning of a bipolar pattern