Twentieth Century: Influential Events, Institutions, and people

Adolf Hitler

The twentieth century was filled with enormous numbers of dramatic events:

• The sinking of the Titanic
• World War I, World War II, Vietnam War, Korean War, War in Iraq, Cold War
• Prohibition, War on Drugs
• Drastic changes in values (extremes between overly-strict mindsets and very liberal mindsets)
• Split in religious and scientific belief systems (for the first time in the history of the world, the two have also managed to come together to create new religious beliefs or philosophies—motivated by the beliefs of the Romantic era)
• The invention of the radio, television, and Internet to instantly inform the masses
• Larger than life peacemakers—Ghandi, Mother Theresa, and others

Mahatma Ghandi