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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 20th_century20th century - Wikipedia

    The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). [1] [2] It was the 10th and last century of the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and entertainment.

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  2. 20th century. The 20th century began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. The 20th century saw two world wars and a Cold War, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the coming of the telephone, sound recording, movies and television, airplanes, atomic weapons, genetics and DNA, computers and electronics in general.

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  3. Key events of the 20th century - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Events in the 20th century. Toggle Events in the 20th century subsection. The world at the beginning of the century. "The war to end all wars": World War I (1914–1918) The Russian Revolution and Communism. Between the wars. Economic depression. The rise of dictatorship.

  4. 20th-century decade overviews ‎ (10 C) / 20th-century beginnings ‎ (16 C) 20th-century endings ‎ (13 C, 1 P) +. Months in the 20th century ‎ (10 C) A. 20th-century individual animals ‎ (2 C) 20th-century archaeological discoveries ‎ (10 C, 6 P) 20th century in the Arctic ‎ (10 C, 35 P) 20th century in the arts ‎ (30 C, 9 P)

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  6. The 20th century in the United States refers to the period in the United States from 1901 through 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. For information on this period, see: History of the United States series: History of the United States (1865–1918) History of the United States (1918–1945) History of the United States (1945–1964)

  7. Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.

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