 End of the Age of Empires  Democracies displace monarchies  Big business people displace landed aristocracy  New Types of Nationalism (fascism, decolonization, racism, genocide, break up of USSR)  Globalization  World War I  Great Depression  World War II  Cold War

 Some countries continue to rely on the production of raw materials (former colonies/third world countries)  Industrialized nations continue to greatly influence the economies in Africa, Latin America and SE Asia  Overall economic inequalities persisted within and between societies  Rural regions in India maintained old economic and social forms  Many societies continue to resist changes in gender relations  Ex. Girls are less likely to be educated in many societies

 Globalization  World War I  Great Depression  World War II  Cold War  Rise of International Organizations  (ex. League of Nations & United Nations)

 World War I Begins

 Russian Revolution

 Treaty of Versailles – End of World War I

 Stock Market Crash – Beginning of the Great Depression

 Japanese invasion of Manchuria

 Italian invasion of Ethiopia

 German blitzkrieg in Poland – Beginning of World War II

 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. Enters World War II

 End of World War II

 Independence and Partition of India

 Birth of Israel

 Chinese Communist Revolution

 Korean War

 Yom Kippur War

 Iranian Revolution

 1 st Palestinian Intifada

 Tiananmen Square & Fall of Berlin Wall

 Fall of USSR & 1 st Gulf War

 Genocide in Rwanda & 1 st all-race elections in South Africa

 9/11 Attacks