The 20th Century in Review

Table of contents

1 The World at the Turn of the Century
2 The Great War
3 Russian Revolution
4 The Inter War Years

4.1 Economic Depression
4.2 The Rise of Facism

5 Global War

5.3 The Holocaust
5.4 The Nuclear Age Begins

6 The World Post 1945

6.5 Israel and Palestine
6.6 The End of Empire
6.7 An 'Iron Curtain' has fallen
6.8 'A Giant Leap for Mankind'
6.9 War by Proxy
6.10 The End of the Cold War
6.11 Secular Conflict
6.12 European Union

7 The World at the End of the 20th Century

The World at the Turn of the Century

In Europe the 20th century starts with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, she was regarded as the Grandmother of europe, being related with most european dynasties.

The Great War

The First World war started in 1914 and ended in 1918, it was ignited by the assassination of the Austrian Empires heir to the Throne Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand. The allies comprised the British Empire, Russia and France, later also Italy and in 1917 the USA, on the other side fought Germany along with Austria-Hungary and later the Ottoman Empire.

In 1917 Russia and Germany signed a peace treaty (in Brest-Litowsk) which strongly favoured Germany and its allies, so from 1917 Russia ended hostile actions against Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, although Germany shifted huge forces from the east to the west front after the Treaty of Brest - Litowsk it couldn't stop the allied advance.

The Rise of Facism

After the depression of the 20s, dictatorship spread over Europe with Hitler coming to power in 1933 in Germany, after Austria had been anexed, the "Anschluss", and large parts of the Czech Republic had been occupied by Germany, the British and French Appeasers acted to ensure the survival of Poland, when in 1939 Germany attacked Poland war broke out in Europe, because of the Treaty signed between Britain,France and Poland had to declare war to Germany.

Global War

(Suggest link to other pages rather than recount in any detail)