Contemporary Era Chart and Definitions 1900 Present Contemporary
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Contemporary Era Chart and Definitions 1900 -Present
Contemporary Era Important Events • WWI • Dates: July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 • Groups involved: Britain, France, Italy, Russia, U. S. vs. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire • Causes: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism • Outcomes: League of Nations, unfair Treaty of Versailles, Mandate States, WWII
Contemporary Era Important Events • Russian Revolution • Dates: March 1917 – February 1918 • Groups involved: Working class, Bolsheviks • Causes: angry working class, Poor ruling by Czar, desire to exit WWI • Outcomes: Vladimir Lenin takes over, implements industrial reforms, installs a Marxist government
Contemporary Era Important Events • WWII • Dates: September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 • Groups involved: Britain, France, Russia, U. S. vs. Germany, Italy, Japan • Causes: Treaty of Versailles, Rise of totalitarian dictators, aggressive foreign policy • Outcomes: Europe in ruins, Soviet Union and U. S. main World Powers, Cold War
Contemporary Era Important Events • Cold War • Dates: 1947 – 1991 • Groups involved: U. S. vs. Soviet Union • Causes: Capitalist vs. Communist ideology, economic and military competition, increased nuclear threat • Outcomes: Collapse of the Soviet Union, independence for Soviet Republics, Germany re-unified
Contemporary Era Important Events • Chinese Communist Revolution • Dates: 1946 -1950 • Groups involved: Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) • Causes: Control of China by other countries, unfair treatment of peasants, Young people’s desire to modernize China • Outcomes: transformed the lives of women, education declined, redistribution of land to peasants
Contemporary Vocab • Nationalism (2 definitions) • 1) The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance • 2) the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation • Globalization • The process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. • Genocide • the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
