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Revision as of 17:09, 23 May 2002
Centuries: Year in Review 20th century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
The century known as the twentieth century comprises the years 1901-2000. This is different from the century known as the nineteen hundreds, which comprises the years 1900-1999.
The twentieth century was remarkable due to the technological, medical, social, ideological, and international innovations, and due to the rise of war, genocide, and democide on an unprecedented scale. Virtually every aspect of human life had changed in some fundamental way by the end of the twentieth century.
Important developments, events and achievements
- Science and Technology
- Assembly line and mass production of motor vehicles and other goods
- Development of agricultural chemicals
- Invention of heavier-than-air flying machines, jet engine
- Space flight, including Apollo program
- Invention of transistor, integrated circuit, laser and computers.
- Radio and television
- Global real-time communications via geosynchronous satellites
- Internet
- Theory of relativity and the big bang model of cosmology
- Quantum mechanics and the standard model of elementary particles
- Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl
- Antibiotics, contraceptives, organ transplants, cloning
- Discovery of DNA molecule, advent of molecular biology
- Wars and Politics
- World War I
- Founding of the League of Nations
- World War II
- Holocaust
- Korean War
- Forming of socialist countries
- Cold_war
- Rise and fall of Soviet Union
- Rise of the United States to world domination, aiming for Full Spectrum Domination
- Vietnam War
- Middle East
- World War I and partition,
- Creation of Israel, Palestinian displacement, Six Days War, Yom Kippur War, Camp David Summit
- Pan-arabism, Ba'ath Party
- OPEC and oil prices, Gulf War
- Beginnings of terrorism, hijackings, Black September, 1972 Munich Olympic games
- Women's rights
- End of colonialism, including devolution of the British Empire
- Founding of the United Nations
- Disasters
- Influenza pandemic 1918 kills 25 million
- AIDS
- Culture
- Environmental Problems or perceived problems
- Vast increase in fossil fuel consumption, Air Pollution, Ozone hole
- Global warming
- World-wide deforestation
- Loss of biodiversity (plant, animal species)
- The genetic engineering debate.
Significant people
World Leaders
- Russia and Soviet Union
- Europe
- Charles de Gaulle of France
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
- Adolf Hitler of Germany
- Benito Mussolini of Italy
- Asia
- Pol Pot of Cambodia
- Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam
Scientists
Aerospace Pioneers
- Yuri Gagarin
- Neil Armstrong
- Charles Lindberg
- Sally Ride
- Ron McNair
- Ellison Onizuka
- John Glenn
- Alan Shepherd
Military Leaders
Religious Figures
- Pope John Paul II
- Mother Theresa of Calcutta
- The Dalai Lama of Tibet
- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.