 |
|
| |
|
|
|
at Global Oneness Community.
Share your dreams and let others help you with the interpretation!
Dream Sharing Forum
|
|
20th century - Overview | | 20th century - Overview: Encyclopedia II - 20th century - Overview | | The twentieth century saw a remarkable shift in the way that vast numbers of people lived, as a result of technological, medical, social, ideological, and political innovations. Terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage and became an influence on the lives of everyday people. War reached an unprecedented scale and level of sophistication; in the Second World War (1939-1945) alone, approximately 57 million people died, mainly due to massive improvements in weaponry. The trends of mechanization of goods and ...
See also:20th century, 20th century - Overview, 20th century - Important developments events and achievements, 20th century - Science and technology, 20th century - Wars and politics, 20th century - Culture and entertainment, 20th century - Disease and medicine, 20th century - Natural resources and the environment, 20th century - Significant people, 20th century - World leaders, 20th century - Scientists, 20th century - Humanities, 20th century - Business, 20th century - Aerospace pioneers, 20th century - Spiritual figures, 20th century - Artists, 20th century - Music, 20th century - Film, 20th century - Writers and poets, 20th century - Sports figures, 20th century - Decades and years | | | 20th century, 20th century - Aerospace pioneers, 20th century - Artists, 20th century - Business, 20th century - Culture and entertainment, 20th century - Decades and years, 20th century - Disease and medicine, 20th century - Film, 20th century - Humanities, 20th century - Important developments events and achievements, 20th century - Music, 20th century - Natural resources and the environment, 20th century - Overview, 20th century - Science and technology, 20th century - Scientists, 20th century - Significant people, 20th century - Spiritual figures, 20th century - Sports figures, 20th century - Wars and politics, 20th century - World leaders, 20th century - Writers and poets | | |
| | | 20th century: Encyclopedia II - 20th century - Overview
20th century - Overview
The twentieth century saw a remarkable shift in the way that vast numbers of people lived, as a result of technological, medical, social, ideological, and political innovations. Terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage and became an influence on the lives of everyday people. War reached an unprecedented scale and level of sophistication; in the Second World War (1939-1945) alone, approximately 57 million people died, mainly due to massive improvements in weaponry. The trends of mechanization of goods and services and networks of global communication, which were begun in the 19th century, continued at an ever-increasing pace in the 20th. In spite of the terror and chaos, the 20th century saw many attempts at world peace. As the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy said:
What kind of peace do we seek? I am talking about a genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living. Not merely peace in our time, but peace in all time. Our problems are man-made, therefore they can be solved by man. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's future, and we are all mortal.
Virtually every aspect of life in virtually every human society changed in some fundamental way or another during the twentieth century and for the first time, any individual could influence the course of history no matter their background. Arguably, the 20th century re-shaped the face of the planet in more ways than any previous century.
- Technology
- Death rates
- Infant mortality
- Infectious disease
- Life expectancy
- Maternal death rates
- Battles
Scientific discoveries such as relativity and quantum physics radically changed the worldview of scientists, causing them to realize that the universe was much more complex than they had previously believed, and dashing the hopes at the end of the preceding century that the last few details of knowledge were about to be filled in.
For a more coherent overview of the historical events of the century, see The 20th century in review.
The 20th century has sometimes been called, both within and outside the United States, the American Century, though this is a controversial term.
Other related archives1900, 1900s, 1901, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1941, 1970s, 1980s, 1989, 1990s, 1999, 19th Century, 19th century, 2000, 20th Century, 20th century, 21st Century, 57 million people, ABBA, AIDS, Aaron Copland, Aaron T. Beck, Abdul Nasser, Adolf Hitler, Adolfo Suárez, Africa, African, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Al Oerter, Alamgir Hashmi, Alan Moore, Alan Shepard, Alan Turing, Alban Berg, Albert Camus, Albert Einstein, Albert Ellis, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Alberto Giacometti, Alberto Kenya Fujimori, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Aldo Moro, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Fleming, Alexander Rodchenko, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Kinsey, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfredo di Stefano, Allen Ginsberg, Alonzo Church, Amedeo Modigliani, American Century, Americas, Amy Grant, Amy Tan, Andre Malraux, Andreas Papandreou, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, André Breton, André Weil, Andy Warhol, Anna Seghers, Anne Frank, Anselm Kiefer, Anthropology, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Anton Webern, Antonio Machado, António de Oliveira Salazar, Anwar Sadat, Arab, Aram Khachaturian, Archbishop Makarios III, Arend Lijphart, Argentina, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schönberg, Art, Arthur Ashe, Arthur Miller, Asia, Asian, Astronomy, Auguste Rodin, Augusto César Sandino, Augusto Pinochet, Aurobindo Ghosh, Australia, Australia and Oceania, Austria-Hungary, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayn Rand, Ayrton Senna, B.F. Skinner, Babe Ruth, Balthus, Barbara Hepworth, Basil Bunting, Battles, Benito Mussolini, Benoit Mandelbrot, Bertolt Brecht, Bertrand Russell, Betty Cuthbert, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bill Shankly, Bill Tilden, Billy Graham, Biology, Bjorn Borg, Bob Beamon, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bobby Jones, Bobby Moore, Bobby Orr, Boris Becker, Boris Yeltsin, Brazil, Brian Lara, British Commonwealth, Bruce Lee, Bruce Nauman, Béla Bartók, C. Wright Mills, C.S. Lewis, Caetano Veloso, Calcutta, Cambodia, Canada, Carl Djerassi, Carl Jung, Carl Lewis, Carl Sagan, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Gardel, Centuries, Charles A. Beard, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Olson, Charles Reznikoff, Charles de Gaulle, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Parker, Chemistry, Chiang Kai-shek, Chile, China, Chuck Berry, Chuck Close, Chuck Yeager, Cid Corman, Civil Rights, Claude Debussy, Claude Shannon, Cliff Richard, Clive Bell, Cold War, Colin Meads, Computer Science, Constantin Brancusi, Contraceptive, Corazon Aquino, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czar Nicholas II, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, D.W. Griffith, DNA, Dalai Lama, Dalida, Dan Marino, Dario Fo, David Ben-Gurion, David Bowie, David Hilbert, David Lange, Dawn Fraser, Death rates, Deng Xiaoping, Denis Law, Diego Maradona, Diego Rivera, Dmitri Shostakovich, Don Bradman, Donald Judd, Donald Trump, Dorothy Richardson, Douglas Adams, Douglas Jardine, Dwight Eisenhower, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, Eamon de Valera, East Germany, Eastern Europe, Economics, Eddy Merckx, Edgard Varèse, Edmund Barton, Edmund Hillary, Edsger Dijkstra, Eduardo Paolozzi, Edvard Munch, Edwin Hubble, Egon Schiele, Egypt, Einar Gerhardsen, El Lissitzky, Eleftherios Venizelos, Elia Kazan, Elias Corey, Ellison Onizuka, Elvis Presley, Emil Nolde, Emil Zatopek, Emiliano Zápata, Emmitt Smith, Emperor Hirohito, Enrico Fermi, Erich Heckel, Erich Honecker, Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Rutherford, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Ernst Barlach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ernst Mayr, Erwin Schrödinger, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union, Eusebio, Eva Hesse, Eva Perón, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Fascism, Fausto Coppi, Fela Kuti, Felipe González, Felix Hausdorff, Ferdinand Marcos, Ferenc Puskas, Fernand Braudel, Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Fernando Pessoa, Fidel Castro, Finland, France, Francis Crick, Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Fukuyama, Francisco Franco, Franjo Tuđman, Frank Capra, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franz Beckenbauer, Franz Joseph of Austria, Franz Kafka, Franz Klammer, François Mitterrand, Fred Perry, Freddie Laker, Fredric Jameson, Freeman Dyson, Frida Kahlo, Friedrich Ebert, Fritz Haber, Fritz Lang, Fusion power, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, G. H. Hardy, Gabriel García Márquez, Gamal Abdal Nasser, Gareth Edwards, Gary Davis, Gary Player, Gary Snyder, Gary Sobers, Gaston Bachelard, George Best, George Braque, George Gershwin, George H. W. Bush, George Halas, George Headley, George Lucas, George Orwell, Gerhard Schröder, Gerina Dunwich, Germany, Gertrude Stein, Getúlio Vargas, Ghana, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio de Chirico, Giuseppe Meazza, Gnassingbe Eyadema, Golda Meir, Gordie Howe, Gordon Banks, Grace Murray Hopper, Grazyna Miller, Greece, Gregorian calendar, Guinea, Gustav Holst, Gustav Klimt, Günter Grass, H.D., Habib Bourguiba, Hafez el Assad, Haile Selassie, Halldór Laxness, Hannah Arendt, Hans Adolf Krebs, Hans Bellmer, Harold Holt, Harold Pinter, Harold Urey, Harper Lee, Harry S Truman, Harry Turtledove, Hart Crane, Hayao Miyazaki, Helen Frankenthaler, Helmut Kohl, Henri Bergson, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Henry Ford, Henry Moore, Herbert Sutcliffe, Herman Potočnik Noordung, Hermann Hesse, Hiroshima, History, Ho Chi Minh, Howard Hughes, Howard Walter Florey, Hugh MacDiarmid, Hungary, ISO 8601, Iannis Xenakis, Idi Amin, Igor Stravinsky, Imre Nagy, India, Indira Gandhi, Indochina, Indonesia, Infant mortality, Infectious disease, Ingemar Stenmark, Ingmar Bergman, International Organization for Standardization, Internet, Ioannis Metaxas, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isaac Asimov, Isabel Allende, Israel, Italo Calvino, Italy, Ivan Pavlov, J. D. Salinger, J.J. Thomson, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Dempsey, Jack Hobbs, Jack Kerouac, Jack Nicklaus, Jackie Robinson, Jackson Pollock, Jacob Epstein, Jacques Le Goff, Jahangir Khan, James Joyce, James Rosenquist, James Watson, Jane Goodall, Janis Joplin, Jannis Kounellis, Jansher Khan, Japan, Japanese, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jazz, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Piaget, Jean Sibelius, Jean-Claude Killy, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Pierre Serre, Jerry Rice, Jesse Owens, Jewish, Jews, Jim Brown, Jim Clark (racing driver), Jim Thorpe, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Miró, Joe Louis, Joe Montana, Johann Cruyff, John B. Watson, John Backus, John Cage, John Coltrane, John Conway, John Elway, John F. Kennedy, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Maynard Keynes, John Maynard Smith, John McEnroe, John Millington Synge, John Rawls, John Steinbeck, John Stockton, John Updike, John Williams, John von Neumann, Johnny Cash, Jomo Kenyatta, Jonas Salk, Jordan, Jorge Luis Borges, Josef Albers, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, José Batlle y Ordóñez, Juan Gris, Juan Manuel Fangio, Juan Perón, Julio Cortázar, Julius Nyerere, Juscelino Kubitschek, Józef Piłsudski, Jürgen Habermas, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kenneth Kaunda, Kenny Dalglish, Kenya, King Hussein, King Sunny Ade, Konrad Adenauer, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Korea, Kraftwerk, Kurt Gödel, Kurt Schwitters, Kurt Vonnegut, Kwame Nkrumah, Käthe Kollwitz, Lance Armstrong, Larry Bird, Larry Holmes, Le Corbusier, League of Nations, Lech Wałęsa, Led Zeppelin, Lee Kuan Yew, Len Hutton, Leon Trotsky, Leonid Brezhnev, Lester Piggott, Lev Yashin, Libya, Life expectancy, Linus Pauling, Linus Torvalds, Literary, Louis Althusser, Louis Aragon, Louis Armstrong, Louis Bleriot, Louis Zukofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Lu Xun, Luciano Berio, Lucien Febvre, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig von Mises, Luis Carlos Prestes, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lyonel Feininger, László Moholy-Nagy, Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Ma Haide (George Hatem), Magic Johnson, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Mahathir Mohamad, Mahatma Gandhi, Malaysia, Malcolm Marshall, Mao Zedong, Marc Bloch, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Proust, Margaret Thatcher, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Marian Rejewski, Marianne Moore, Marino Marini, Mario Lemieux, Mark Rothko, Mark Spitz, Mark Todd, Martin Heidegger, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Strel, Martina Navratilova, Marvin Gaye, Mary Whiton Calkins, Mass media, Maternal death rates, Mathematics, Maurice Duverger, Maurice Richard, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Max Pechstein, Max Planck, Maya Angelou, Medicine, Menachem Begin, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Metallica, Mexico, Michael Jackson, Michael Johnson, Michael Jordan, Michael Joseph Savage, Michael Schumacher, Michel Foucault, Michel Platini, Middle East, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Horthy, Milan Kučan, Miles Davis, Milton Friedman, Mina Loy, Modernism, Mohammad Khatami, Mohammad Mosaddeq, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, More..., Mother Teresa, Movies, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Muhammad Iqbal, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mário Soares, Nagasaki, Nazia Hassan, Nazim Hikmet, Nazism, Neil Armstrong, Neil Young, Nelson Mandela, Neville Chamberlain, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Nicolas Bourbaki, Niels Bohr, Nikita Khrushchev, Nirvana, Nitrogen, Norman Borlaug, Norway, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, OPEC, Obdulio Varela, Olivier Messiaen, Olof Palme, Orrick Johns, Orson Welles, Oscar Peterson, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Paavo Nurmi, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Picasso, Pakistan, Palestine, Pancho Villa, Paul Allen, Paul Dirac, Paul Ehrlich, Paul Eluard, Paul Erdős, Paul Klee, Pauline Kael, Pelé, People's Republic of China, Peru, Pete Sampras, Peter Fraser, Pharmacy, Phil Spector, Philip Glass, Philip Larkin, Philippe Pétain, Philippines, Philosophy, Physics, Pierre Boulez, Pierre Curie, Pierre Trudeau, Piet Mondrian, Pink Floyd, Pol Pot, Poland, Political Science, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Pius X, Pope Pius XII, Portugal, Postmodernism, President, Psychology, Queen, Quentin Tarantino, Ramana Maharshi, Rasputin, Ray Bradbury, Ray Charles, Ray Lindwall, Raymond Williams, Red Grange, René Magritte, Republic of China, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Richard Feynman, Richard Hadlee, Richard Matthew Stallman, Richard Nixon, Richard Serra, Richard Wright, Robert A. Dahl, Robert Creeley, Robert Frost, Robert Goddard, Robert Motherwell, Robert Mugabe, Robert Smithson, Roberto Clemente, Rock and Roll, Rocky Marciano, Rod Laver, Roman Polanski, Romania, Romulo Betancourt, Ron McNair, Ronald Reagan, Roy Lichtenstein, Ruben Darío, Rudolf Arnheim, Russia, Russian Revolution of 1917, S.M. Stirling, Saddam Hussein, Salman Rushdie, Salvador Allende, Salvador Dalí, Sam Walton, Samuel Beckett, Samuel P. Huntington, Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi, Scott Joplin, Seamus Heaney, Sean O'Casey, Seb Coe, Second World War (1939-1945), Senegal, Serena Williams, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergio Leone, Severiano Ballesteros, Shane Warne, Short twentieth century, Siegfried Kracauer, Sigmund Freud, Singapore, Sir Robert Menzies, Slobodan Milošević, Slovenia, Sol LeWitt, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Soviet Union, Space flight, Spain, Spanish Flu, Sports, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Stan Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Matthews, Stanley Milgram, Stanley Miller, Steffi Graf, Stephen Ambrose, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen King, Steve Jobs, Steve Ovett, Steve Reich, Steve Waugh, Steve Young, Steven Spielberg, Suharto, Sukarno, Sun Myung Moon, Sun Yat-sen, Sunil Gavaskar, Sweden, Syria, T.H. White, T.S. Eliot, Tanzania, Technology, Ted Williams, Tenzin Gyatso, Tenzing Norgay, The 20th century in review, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Clash, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas J. Watson, Thomas Mann, Thomas Pynchon, Thubten Gyatso, Tibet, Tiger Woods, Togo, Tony Blair, Tony McCoy, Truman Capote, Tunisia, Tupac Shakur, Turkey, U2, USA, Uganda, Umberto Eco, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States, Upton Sinclair, Urho Kekkonen, Uruguay, Valentina Tereshkova, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Van Morrison, Venezuela, Venus Williams, Victor Trumper, Vietnam, Vince Lombardi, Virginia Woolf, Vivian Richards, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Vladimir Nabokov, Václav Havel, W. B. Yeats, W. V. Quine, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, Wally Lewis, Walt Disney, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Walter Payton, Walter Ulbricht, War, Warren Buffett, Wasim Akram, Wassily Kandinsky, Wayne Gretzky, Werner Karl Heisenberg, Wernher von Braun, West Germany, Western Europe, Wilfred Rhodes, Wilfrid Laurier, Wilhelm II, Willem de Kooning, William Carlos Williams, William Faulkner, William Gates III, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Willy Brandt, Wilt Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Pauli, Woodrow Wilson, World War I, World War II, Wright Brothers, Yassar Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Yo-Yo Ma, Yom Kippur War, Yugoslavia, Yuri Gagarin, Yves Klein, Zambia, Zimbabwe, air conditioning, air pollution, airplane, antibiotics, assembly line, astronomical year numbering, automobile, biodiversity, birth control, climate change, cloning, colonialism, computer, computing, cubism, deforestation, developing countries, electronics, ethnic nationalism, euro, exponentially growing, expressionism, fashion, film, fossil fuel, genetic engineering, genocide, geosynchronous satellites, global warming, heavier-than-air flying machines, herbicides, ideology, influenza, integrated circuits, jet engine, laser, leisure time, mass media, mass production, media, medicine, middle class, molecular biology, music, nationalism, nuclear reactor, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, oil, oral contraceptives, organ transplantation, ozone hole, pesticides, petroleum, physics, plastics, popular music, proxy wars, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, radio, relativity, successor states, supercomputer, superpower, surrealism, telephone, television, the Holocaust, the western world, theory of relativity, transistors, voting privileges, washing machine, world war
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Overview", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
|
|
|
More material related to 20th Century can be found here:
|
|
|
« Back
|
Search the Global Oneness web site |
|
|
|
|
|
Sneak-Peek of Global Oneness Community
Hi friend! The Global Oneness Community, the place for information and sharing about Oneness is not really launched yet (you will see there is still some clean up to do) ...but it is now open for a sneak-peek! And if you wish - please register and become one of the very first members to do so! Jonas
Forum Home,
Articles,
Photo Gallery,
Videos,
News,
Sitemap
...and much more!
|
