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Wright Brothers invent the airoplane
The invention of the airplane marks a significant evolution to transportation and warfare where the fantasy of being able to fly became reality. -
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World War 1
'The War to End all Wars' World War 1 sparks the beginning to the massive conflicts of this century, from a small conflict in the Balkans, the whole world would be engulfed in war, having the powers of Europe throw themselves into brutal struggles that would see around 16 million people dead, devastating Europe and seeing 4 of the empires fall. -
Russian Revolution
After rule from the Tzars and a brutal war with the Central Powers, Russia fell into a period of chaos where the central government fell to Communist Revolutionaries commanded by Lenin. -
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The great depresstion
A time of great economic collapse and downturn, the great depression was caused by the a crash in the Wall Street stock exchange which domino-ed across the world, devastating the world's economy. This collapse is one of the key factors in the rise of nationalism and militarism. This period ended with the start of the second world war. -
Germany invades Poland
By invading Poland, Nazi Germany began a war which would consume around 50-80 million lives and end with a complete reshuffling of the entire global political landscape. -
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Decolonisation
After the Scramble of Africa, colonies became increasingly expensive with constant unrest by the locals. As maintaining these colonies became more and more of a burden, colonial governments were given the rights to self rule. -
The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
By dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US ended the war in the Pacific without a costly invasion of the Japanese home island. In dropping the bomb, the US presented its self as the new dominant power and started a the new age of Atomic power. -
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The Cold War
Although not specifical a war, this time span is one of great presure and political upheaval as the rival world powers of the USA and the USSR battled each other in proxy wars across the world and threatened nuclear war, which was first time in known history, a man made disaster that could of eradicated the entire human race. -
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The South African government during this time was one of segregation and racism as white and black people were forced to use separate resources and facilities with a bias to white citizens. -
Founding of Israel
After the second world war, there was an influx of starving, homeless Jews across Europe who had no country to settle so the united nations established a state in the Levant where the Jewish people could settle and not cause friction within European nations. This destabilized the middle-east as there was a Palestinian population still living there and tensions rose between the new state and the established Arabic nations around it. -
The end of the Vietnam war
When the French left Indochina due to the communist backed uprising of the Vietnamese people, America and her allies, sent a task force into the country as a 'peace keeping force' in order to stem communist influence influence in Asia. Jungle warfare erupted as the communist North battled the United States backed south for control of Vietnam. Due to the costly war, a string of losses and pressure to end the war back in the States, the United forces were forced to leave. -
End of the Civil Rights Movement
Led by civil rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, the civil rights movement made to make both all races equal under law and to stop racism and discrimination in the USA. -
The start of the War on Drugs
As drug abuse became rampant in the western countries, governments declared many recreational drugs illegal and was battled internationally, from South America and Indochina to the US. -
The Iranian revolution
A anti-government protest in Iran topples the secular Pahlavi dynasty and founds a Shiite Theocracy. In doing so, the other secular dictators begin to fear similar revolutions occurring in their countries. Led by Saudi Arabia a coalition of Arab nations banded together to stop the sped of Iranian influence in the peninsular. This would bring a cold war of sorts to the middle east between Iran and Saudi Arabia that would fuel future conflicts in the peninsular and destabilize the region. -
Collapse of the Berlin Wall
Constructed in order for eastern Germans not escape to western Berlin, a part of the democratic Germany by the soviets, the collapse of the wall symbolized the collapse of the soviet union as many territories were rebelling against the Russian regime and became new states. This was due to the increasingly liberal policies by the central government, the collapse of the wall presented the end of the Iron curtain and ended the cold war
