20th century

E203501

century historical period

The 20th century was a period of rapid global transformation marked by two world wars, decolonization, ideological conflicts, and major advances in science, technology, and social change.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
20th century canonical	1
Twentieth Century	1
twentieth-century United States	1

Statements (104)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	century ⓘ historical period ⓘ
endTime	2000 ⓘ
followedBy	21st century ⓘ
follows	19th century ⓘ
hasMajorEvent	Algerian War of Independence ⓘ Balkan conflicts in the 1990s ⓘ Basque conflict ⓘ United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference ⓘ surface form: Bretton Woods Conference Chernobyl disaster ⓘ Chinese Civil War ⓘ Chinese Revolution ⓘ Cold War ⓘ Cuban Missile Crisis ⓘ Great Depression ⓘ Great Leap Forward policies ⓘ surface form: Great Leap Forward Green Revolution ⓘ Gulf War ⓘ HIV/AIDS ⓘ surface form: HIV/AIDS pandemic Holocaust ⓘ Indian independence movement ⓘ Iranian Revolution ⓘ Iran–Iraq War ⓘ Korean War ⓘ Cultural Revolution ⓘ surface form: Mao's Cultural Revolution The Troubles ⓘ surface form: Northern Ireland conflict Russian Revolution ⓘ surface form: October Revolution Arab–Israeli conflict ⓘ surface form: Palestinian–Israeli conflict Russian Revolution ⓘ Rwandan Civil War ⓘ 1994 Rwandan genocide ⓘ surface form: Rwandan genocide Rwandan genocide tribunals ⓘ Six-Day War ⓘ Spanish Civil War ⓘ 1918 influenza pandemic ⓘ surface form: Spanish flu pandemic Spanish transition to democracy ⓘ Suez Crisis ⓘ Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station ⓘ surface form: Three Mile Island accident Vietnam War ⓘ World War I ⓘ World War II ⓘ Yom Kippur War ⓘ Yugoslav Wars ⓘ anti-apartheid movement ⓘ anti-nuclear movement ⓘ apartheid in South Africa ⓘ civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe ⓘ collapse of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ collapse of the gold standard ⓘ creation of Israel ⓘ creation of the European Union ⓘ creation of the League of Arab States ⓘ decolonization of Africa ⓘ decolonization of Asia ⓘ development of mass media ⓘ development of nuclear weapons ⓘ dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ end of apartheid in South Africa ⓘ environmental movement ⓘ establishment of the International Criminal Court ⓘ establishment of the International Monetary Fund ⓘ establishment of the World Bank ⓘ establishment of the World Trade Organization ⓘ expansion of public education ⓘ expansion of welfare states ⓘ fall of the Berlin Wall ⓘ formation of NATO ⓘ formation of the G7 ⓘ formation of the League of Nations ⓘ formation of the Non-Aligned Movement ⓘ formation of the United Nations ⓘ formation of the Warsaw Pact ⓘ gay rights movement ⓘ growth of air travel ⓘ information revolution ⓘ mass urbanization ⓘ moon landing ⓘ nuclear arms race ⓘ nuclear non-proliferation efforts ⓘ oil crises of the 1970s ⓘ partition of India ⓘ postcolonial independence movements ⓘ rise and fall of the British Empire ⓘ rise of communism ⓘ rise of fascism ⓘ rise of globalization ⓘ rise of identity politics ⓘ rise of international human rights law ⓘ rise of international organizations ⓘ rise of mass consumer culture ⓘ rise of neoliberal economic policies ⓘ rise of terrorism as a global issue ⓘ rise of the People's Republic of China ⓘ rise of the United States as a superpower ⓘ rise of the internet ⓘ second-wave feminism ⓘ sexual revolution ⓘ space race ⓘ spread of television ⓘ student protest movements of 1968 ⓘ women's suffrage movements ⓘ
partOf	2nd millennium ⓘ
startTime	1901 ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

NRA → timePeriod → 20th century ⓘ

subject surface form: National Revolutionary Army

On the Twentieth Century → basedOn → 20th century ⓘ

this entity surface form: Twentieth Century

Race Rebels → mainSubject → 20th century ⓘ

this entity surface form: twentieth-century United States