20th Century
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Summary of the 20th Century
When the 20th century began it was full of promises of peace, prosperity, and happiness; even though at the turn of the century the greatest modern empire of that time was in the Boar Wars. No one ever dreamed that instead of the great things this new century promised such despair and war would come.
Even though there was great turmoil, there were also great achievements. The first great thing that happened was the first successful flight at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers. Their research and development of the airplane paved the way for faster travel and deadly war machines. Over the years man has engineered better designs for airplanes, even discovered more proficient ways of creating thrust.
In 1914 the world was placed in a situation that they thought would never happen: the world was at war. Over the next four years trench warfare was at its worst. Until America entered the war, the Allied and Central powers were stuck at a standstill with the war almost out of business. When the war finally ended everyone believed that there would never be another war because modern warfare was just too expensive.
After the war, America slunk into a depression and dragged the world down with it. But something else was brewing in this worldwide depression; totalitarianism governments, which were Fascism, Communism, and Nazism. These three dangerous forms of government would prove to challenge capitalism and democracy throughout the rest of the 20th century.
Soon the world was at war again. This is the real start of ‘modern warfare’ as the sense of it now. Airplanes and tanks were widely used on both sides during the war. Towards the end of the war we had technological advances we would have never gotten as quickly otherwise. By the end of this war Nazism was defeated, though communism and fascism gained a foothold around the world, and the world saw the power of the atom.
After the war the United Nations (U.N. was put in place as a...
When the 20th century began it was full of promises of peace, prosperity, and happiness; even though at the turn of the century the greatest modern empire of that time was in the Boar Wars. No one ever dreamed that instead of the great things this new century promised such despair and war would come.
Even though there was great turmoil, there were also great achievements. The first great thing that happened was the first successful flight at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers. Their research and development of the airplane paved the way for faster travel and deadly war machines. Over the years man has engineered better designs for airplanes, even discovered more proficient ways of creating thrust.
In 1914 the world was placed in a situation that they thought would never happen: the world was at war. Over the next four years trench warfare was at its worst. Until America entered the war, the Allied and Central powers were stuck at a standstill with the war almost out of business. When the war finally ended everyone believed that there would never be another war because modern warfare was just too expensive.
After the war, America slunk into a depression and dragged the world down with it. But something else was brewing in this worldwide depression; totalitarianism governments, which were Fascism, Communism, and Nazism. These three dangerous forms of government would prove to challenge capitalism and democracy throughout the rest of the 20th century.
Soon the world was at war again. This is the real start of ‘modern warfare’ as the sense of it now. Airplanes and tanks were widely used on both sides during the war. Towards the end of the war we had technological advances we would have never gotten as quickly otherwise. By the end of this war Nazism was defeated, though communism and fascism gained a foothold around the world, and the world saw the power of the atom.
After the war the United Nations (U.N. was put in place as a...