20th century

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The 20th century was a period of rapid global transformation marked by two world wars, decolonization, ideological conflicts, and major advances in science, technology, and social change.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf century ⓘ
historical period ⓘ
endTime 2000 ⓘ
followedBy 21st century ⓘ
follows 19th century ⓘ
hasMajorEvent Algerian War of Independence ⓘ
Balkan conflicts in the 1990s ⓘ
Basque conflict ⓘ
Bretton Woods Conference ⓘ
Chernobyl disaster ⓘ
Chinese Civil War ⓘ
Chinese Revolution ⓘ
Cold War ⓘ
Cuban Missile Crisis ⓘ
Great Depression ⓘ
Great Leap Forward ⓘ
Green Revolution ⓘ
Gulf War ⓘ
HIV/AIDS pandemic ⓘ
linked to: HIV/AIDS

Holocaust ⓘ
Indian independence movement ⓘ
Iranian Revolution ⓘ
Iran–Iraq War ⓘ
Korean War ⓘ
Mao's Cultural Revolution ⓘ
linked to: Cultural Revolution

Northern Ireland conflict ⓘ
linked to: The Troubles

October Revolution ⓘ
linked to: Russian Revolution

Palestinian–Israeli conflict ⓘ
Russian Revolution ⓘ
Rwandan Civil War ⓘ
Rwandan genocide ⓘ
Rwandan genocide tribunals ⓘ
Six-Day War ⓘ
Spanish Civil War ⓘ
Spanish flu pandemic ⓘ
Spanish transition to democracy ⓘ
Suez Crisis ⓘ
Three Mile Island accident ⓘ
Vietnam War ⓘ
World War I ⓘ
World War II ⓘ
Yom Kippur War ⓘ
Yugoslav Wars ⓘ
anti-apartheid movement ⓘ
anti-nuclear movement ⓘ
apartheid in South Africa ⓘ
civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ
collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe ⓘ
collapse of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ
collapse of the gold standard ⓘ
creation of Israel ⓘ
creation of the European Union ⓘ
creation of the League of Arab States ⓘ
decolonization of Africa ⓘ
decolonization of Asia ⓘ
development of mass media ⓘ
development of nuclear weapons ⓘ
dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ
end of apartheid in South Africa ⓘ
environmental movement ⓘ
establishment of the International Criminal Court ⓘ
establishment of the International Monetary Fund ⓘ
establishment of the World Bank ⓘ
establishment of the World Trade Organization ⓘ
expansion of public education ⓘ
expansion of welfare states ⓘ
fall of the Berlin Wall ⓘ
formation of NATO ⓘ
formation of the G7 ⓘ
formation of the League of Nations ⓘ
formation of the Non-Aligned Movement ⓘ
formation of the United Nations ⓘ
formation of the Warsaw Pact ⓘ
gay rights movement ⓘ
growth of air travel ⓘ
information revolution ⓘ
mass urbanization ⓘ
moon landing ⓘ
nuclear arms race ⓘ
nuclear non-proliferation efforts ⓘ
oil crises of the 1970s ⓘ
partition of India ⓘ
postcolonial independence movements ⓘ
rise and fall of the British Empire ⓘ
rise of communism ⓘ
rise of fascism ⓘ
rise of globalization ⓘ
rise of identity politics ⓘ
rise of international human rights law ⓘ
rise of international organizations ⓘ
rise of mass consumer culture ⓘ
rise of neoliberal economic policies ⓘ
rise of terrorism as a global issue ⓘ
rise of the People's Republic of China ⓘ
rise of the United States as a superpower ⓘ
rise of the internet ⓘ
second-wave feminism ⓘ
sexual revolution ⓘ
space race ⓘ
spread of television ⓘ
student protest movements of 1968 ⓘ
women's suffrage movements ⓘ
partOf 2nd millennium ⓘ
startTime 1901 ⓘ

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National Revolutionary Army → timePeriod → 20th century ⓘ
subject linked to: NRA
On the Twentieth Century → basedOn → Twentieth Century ⓘ
linked to: 20th century
Race Rebels → mainSubject → twentieth-century United States ⓘ
linked to: 20th century
Americana → timeSpanCovered → 20th century United States ⓘ
linked to: 20th century
20th Century Media and the American Psyche: A Strange Love → focusesOn → 20th-century United States ⓘ
linked to: 20th century