Important issues of Twentieth century
We must plan our civilization or we must perish.
-Harold Laski, 1945
The 20th century is defined as the time period running from January 1, 1901 to
December 31, 2000.
Henry Kissinger -
• History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pre tested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
• (Henry A. Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977 of USA).
Age of Imperialism
• 1870- 1914• United Kingdome , Spain, France , Holland,
Portugal
Prof Richard Goof, Walter Moss, Janice Terry & Prof Jiu Hwa Upshur –The Twentieth century : A
Brief Global History
• First controlled heavier-than-air flight of the Wright Brothers.
• Famine in India 1899-1900• Emma Goldman -An Intimate Life “a women had
the right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases.”
The Twentieth century : A Brief Global HistoryProf Richard Goof, Walter Moss, Janice Terry & Prof Jiu Hwa Upshur –The Twentieth
century : A Brief Global History
• Boxer Rebellion in China 1900• German Philosopher Nietzsche’s death
1900
• Boxer Rebellion in China
1901
• Philippine Revolution
1904
• Russo & Japanese War
1906
• All India Muslim League
1907
• Germany- Italy- Austria - Three Nation Alliance
1908
• Independent - South Africa • Austria attack Bosnia Herjagovana
1910
Japan annexes Korea.
1911
• New Delhi becomes the capital of British India. • Republic of China established and ends the
Chinese Empire
1912
• Morocco becomes a protectorate of France• The African National Congress is founded • Balkan Wars begin
1913
• Rabindranath Tagore was Asia's first Nobel Prize winner.
1914-1918
• World War I• Russian Revolution• USA join the Allies for the last 17 months of
World War I
1918-1920
• Turkish War of Independence begins• League of Nations
1921-1932
• The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
• 1924: Death of Vladimir Lenin• Japan invades Manchuria • BBC World Service starts broadcasting • Salt March by Mohandas Gandhi and the
official start of civil disobedience in British India
1933
• Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany• Japan and Germany announce they are going
to leave the League of Nations
1939-1945
• World War II• Creation of the atomic bomb, and the
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki• United Nations founded • Independence of Korea
1947
• Independence of India and Pakistan Creation of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency
1947-1989
• Cold War
1948
• Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi
1949
• Creation of NATO• Establishment of the People's Republic of
China• Independence of Indonesia
1950-1953
• Beginning of the Korean War
1956
• Independence of Sudan and Tunisia • The Hungarian uprising
1959
• Cuban Revolution
1963
• Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a Dream" speech
• Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963-1975
• Vietnam War
1971
• Bangladesh Liberation War• Third Indo-Pakistani War
1980
• Beginning of the Iran-Iraq War• Ronald Reagan is elected President of the
United States
1985
• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
1989
• Fall of the Berlin Wall• 1989 revolution and collapse of the Soviet
Bloc in Europe
1991
• Boris Yeltsin becomes the first President of the Russian Federation
• Dissolution of the Soviet Union and independence of 15 former Soviet republics
1994
• Nelson Mandela
1995
• Establishment of the World Trade Organization
1996
The Taliban government takes control of Afghanistan
1997
• Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from UK to China
• Diana, Princess of Wales is killed in a car accident in Paris
1998
• Osama Bin Laden publishes a fatwa against the West
1999
• Euro is introduced• IMLD
2000
• George W. Bush is elected President of the United States
• Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia