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The Twentieth Century1900-2000
  • World History

2
Events
  • In a hundred years it is difficult to make
    choices among so many important events that have
    shaped an influenced world history in a century
    so chaotic and yet so promising for humanity, the
    Twentieth Century.

3
Local vs. Universal Events
  • This presentation concerns itself with events of
    universal significance, rather than events with
    local significance. Such a choice does not imply
    that local events are not important, but that
    for the purposes of this presentation, an effort
    has been made to present just some important
    events that left its mark in world history,
    particularly the history of Western Civilization.

4
World War I or the Great War, 1914-1918
  • The events at Sarajevo triggered the Great War,
    as it was known during that period. The war
    devastated the lives of millions, it shattered
    the economy, especially of Europe, and it was
    fought for no good reason.

5
The War Shattered the Security of the Modern World
  • The peace and security of the Modern World was
    shattered and threatened by the Great War, and
    that is its significance or importance in world
    history. Great men like Pope Benedict XV tried to
    stop the madness and President Woodrow Wilson was
    able to end it with the famous Treaty of
    Versailles in 1918

6
The U.S. Stock Market Crashes, 1929
  • Although this might seem to be a local event
    because it happened in the United States, its
    effects devastated the world economy, thus, this
    major event had universal significance. The lack
    of jobs in this country, the lack of value in its
    currency, worsened the conditions of millions of
    people throughout the world, particularly the
    poor.

7
The Second World War, 1939-1945
  • The Second World War was a world disaster of
    major proportions. Like the first war, it
    devastated Europe, parts of Africa, Japan, and it
    forced the entry of the United States into the
    conflict.

8
The Holocaust
  • One of the greatest tragedies of World War II,
    was the genocide committed against the Jewish
    population of Europe, a significant event because
    of the gross violation of human rights of a
    people and what that implies for the future of
    different races, religions, and ethnicities.

9
The Second Vatican Council, 1962-1965
  • The Second Vatican Council was a gathering of two
    thousand five hundred Catholic bishops from
    throughout the world. The bishops made binding
    decisions in the name of Christ for a world wide
    Church. Its objective was to bring its message,
    the message of the Gospel to the modern world,
    hoping that the world would embrace its timeless
    message.

10
Important People
  • Pope Benedict XV, 1914-1922
  • The Holy Father tried to stop WWI by proposing a
    peace plan that was ignored by the Allies and
    every world leader involved with the war. His
    actions are of universal significance because he
    tried to stop a war that devastated world
    civilization and all that implies.

11
Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 1874-1965
  • The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom did
    everything possible to stop the evil of Nazism
    and his actions had great significance for the
    peace of the world, especially the peace of the
    civilized World

12
Hitler, 1889-1945
  • No man in world history has done so much damage
    as Hitler did. He was the personification of
    evil, whose triumph would had slaved the world.
    He was responsible, with others, for the death of
    12 million people including six million Jews, the
    physical devastation of Europe and other
    international theaters of action. His
    significance in world history is, without a
    doubt, one of the worse in the history of Western
    Civilization.

13
President Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924
  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson contributed greatly
    to the end of World War I with his 14 Point
    Peace-Plan, a plan accepted by the Treaty of
    Versailles. His actions ended the war that had
    devastated millions of people and he
    re-introduced peace in the world.

14
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945
  • This U.S. President contributed greatly to the
    end of World War II and thus history owes him an
    eternal debt for restoring peace in a world thorn
    by violence, misery and death.

15
Pope John XXIII, 1881-1963
  • Pope John XXIII opened the biggest gathering in
    the history of the 20th century and in the
    history of the world, the Second Vatican Council.
    He wanted to prepare the Church not for a
    confrontation with the modern world, but for a
    dialogue with the modern world, in an era of
    nuclear weapons, the cold war, poverty, and lack
    of social stability.

16
Important Documents
  • One of the most important documents produced in
    the twentieth century is The Universal
    Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948.
    This declaration was issued by the United Nations
    on the heels of a Second World War which had
    ignored human rights, particularly the human
    rights of civilians, victims of a brutal war.
  • Here we see Eleanor Roosevelt holding a poster of
    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

17
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Russian
    "????????? ???????? ????????", or "????????
    ?????????"  is a tract (document) alleging a
    Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world
    domination. Purportedly written by a secret group
    of Jews known as the Elders of Zion, the document
    underlies 24 protocols that are supposedly
    followed by the Jewish people. This document has
    been used by anti-Semites worldwide to justify
    the subtle and open persecution of the Jewish
    people. The document was fabricated between 1895
    and 1902

18
Mein Kampf
  • Mein Kampf, in English My Struggle, is a book
    dictated by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of
    autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's
    political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was
    published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. In this
    book Hitler revealed to the world his utter
    hatred of the Jewish people, a hatred he put into
    practice during WWII.

19
Important Buildings
  • The United Nations (UN) is an international
    organization whose stated aims are to facilitate
    cooperation in international law, international
    security, economic development, social progress,
    human rights and achieving world peace. The UN
    was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace
    the League of Nations, to stop wars between
    countries and to provide a platform for dialogue.

20
The United Nations Building
  • This building is a symbol of the ideals and hope
    of humankind to develop and sustain peace
    throughout the world. The aims of the United
    Nations are noble while the reality of what the
    United Nations stands for, has not always been
    realized, especially, world peace.

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World History in the 20th Century
  • Events, people, documents, and buildings
    illustrate for us, humanity, what is important in
    a brief history of the world, the twentieth
    century. This short presentation has had as its
    aim, to provoke in the students a short
    reflection of what World History means to them
    and what is of importance and significance in the
    world students live in.
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