AP World History Unit 7: Global Conflict (c. 1900 to the Present)
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Summary
At the dawn of the 20th century, a few Western powers dominated global politics. Within only 50 years, that order was remade by two world wars of unprecedented scale. Industrial technology that had built railways and factories now produced machine guns, poison gas, warplanes, and finally the atomic bomb, while governments mobilised whole populations through propaganda and intensified nationalism – both at home and across their colonies. The land empires of the Ottomans, Russia, and the Qing dynasty collapsed. Revolution brought communism to power in Russia, and the unresolved settlement after the First World War helped bring fascist and totalitarian regimes to power, causing the Second World War. It was in this period that states turned the machinery of the modern world against civilian populations, from the Armenian genocide to the Holocaust.
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