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Industrial Revolution
1760–1840 agrarian to industrial era shift
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes called the First Industrial Revolution in contrast to the subsequent Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more wide…
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1789–1799 sociopolitical change in France
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 178…
1939–1945 global conflict
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nea…
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USS…
Undoing political, economic and cultural legacies of colonisation
Decolonization
Decolonization is the ending of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominat…
US–USSR spaceflight capability rivalry
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to ac…
Spread of world views, products, ideas, capital and labor
Globalization
Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and …