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The Western history.
The modern era can be further divided as follows:
- The American War of Independence and the French Revolution and later spreading in other countries, partly as a result of upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars.
- The world dominated by imperial and colonial powers into one of nations and nationhood following the two great world wars, World War I and World War II.
- Contemporary history refers to the period following the end of World War II in 1945 and continuing to the present. It is alternatively considered either a sub-period of the late modern period or a separate period beginning after the late modern period. It includes the currently-ongoing 21st century.
The modern period has been a period of significant development in the fields of
European powers and later their colonies, began a political, economic, and cultural colonization of the rest of the world. (Full article...
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Image 8Image 9First World War saw the prevailing assumptions about society reassessed, and much modernist writing engages with the technological advances and societal changes of modernity moving into the 20th century. In Modernist Literature, Mary Ann Gillies notes that these literary themes share the "centrality of a conscious break with the past", one that "emerges as a complex response across continents and disciplines to a changing world". (Full article...)Image 10This article covers theLateran Treaties which created the Vatican City as a rump sovereign replacement for the Papal States. In the late 1930s, the Fascist government began a more aggressive foreign policy. This included war against Ethiopia, launched from Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, which resulted in its annexation; confrontations with the League of Nations, leading to sanctions; growing economic autarky; and the signing of the Pact of Steel. (Full article...)Image 11*Louis XII, the Father of the People 1498–1515, great-grandson of Charles V of France (Full article...)Image 12Full article...)Image 13Image 14The modern history of Saudi Arabia begins with the declaration of the unification of Saudi Arabia in a single kingdom in 1932. This period of time in Saudi Arabia's history includes the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia and many events. It goes on to encompass Saudi Arabia's brief involvement in World War II in 1945. Afterwards, it includes Saudi Arabia's involvement in the Western Bloc and the Cold War. It also includes Saudi Arabia's proxy conflict with Iran, the Arab Spring, and the ongoing Arab Winter. (Full article...)Image 15
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Image 1Anachronous world map showing member states of the League of Nations, the first global international body of governance created to prevent war after World War I, during its 26-year interwar period history. (from 20th century)
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Image 2The rise of MP3 players, downloadable music, and cellular ringtones in the mid-2000s ended the decade-long dominance that the CD held up to that point. (from Modern era)
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Image 4India's Prayag Kumbh Mela is regarded as the world's largest religious festival. (from Modern era)
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Image 6A stamp commemorating Alexander Fleming. His discovery of penicillin changed the world of medicine by introducing the age of antibiotics. (from 20th century)
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Image 7Hong Kong, under British administration from 1842 to 1997, is one of the original Four Asian Tigers. (from 20th century)
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Image 11The international community grew in the second half of the century significantly due to a new wave of decolonization, particularly in Africa. Most of the newly independent states, were grouped together with many other so calleddeveloping countries. Developing countries gained attention, particularly due to rapid population growth, leading to a record world population of nearly 7 billion people by the end of the century. (from 20th century)
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Image 12Apsheron Peninsula north-east of Baku. (from 20th century)
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Image 13The Blue Marble, Earth as seen from Apollo 17 in December 1972. The photograph was taken by LMP Harrison Schmitt. The second half of the 20th century saw humanity's first space exploration. (from 20th century)
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Image 15A visualization of the various routes through a portion of the Internet. Partial map of the Internet based in 2005. (from Contemporary history)
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Image 17Photo of American astronaut Buzz Aldrin during the first moonwalk in 1969, taken by Neil Armstrong. The relatively young aerospace engineering industries rapidly grew in the 66 years after the Wright brothers' first flight. (from 20th century)
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Image 18Wheat yields greatly increased from the Green Revolution in the world's least developed countries. (from 20th century)
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Image 19Elvis Presley in 1956, a leading figure of rock and roll and rockabilly. (from 20th century)
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Image 21Ralph Baer's Magnavox Odyssey, the first video game console, released in 1972. (from 20th century)
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Image 22Martin Luther King Jr., an African American civil rights movement leader (Washington, August 1963) (from 20th century)
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Image 24Countries by real GDP growth rate in 2014. (Countries in brown were in recession.) (from Contemporary history)
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Image 25Decolonization of the British Empire in Africa. (from Contemporary history)
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Image 26Ukraine, early days of the 1941 Nazi invasion. The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people between 1941 and 1945, almost half of all World War II deaths. (from 20th century)
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Image 28Thenuclear age with the international security dominating thread of mutual assured destruction in the latter half of the 20th century. (from 20th century)
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Image 29First flight of the Wright brothers' Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; Orville piloting with Wilbur running at wingtip. (from 20th century)
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