The Twentieth Century

Following the long nineteenth century, Eric Hobsbawm, who first described the period from 1789 to 1914 as such, has posited that there followed a short twentieth century, lasting from the beginning of World War I until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The articles linked below will essentially follow Hobsbawm’s lead, but will eventually include historical writing about the twenty-year period which has followed these events.

The Great War
The Russian Revolution
Stalin
The Irish Revolution
The Weimar Republic
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
The Rise of the Third Reich
The Second World War
FDR
The British Empire Fades Away
Israel
Independence for India
The Korean War
Suez Crisis
The Second Vatican Council
JFK
The War in Vietnam
1968
The Race to the Moon
Oil Crisis in the 1970s