march 21 strayer introduction to part six chapter 20

"dividing up time into coherent segments periods, eras, ages is the way historians mark amor changes in the lives of individuals, local communities, social groups, nations, and civilizations and also in the larger story of human kind as a whole. because all such divisions are artificial, imposed by scholars in a continuously flowing stream of events, they are endlessly controversial and never more so than in the case of the twentieth century. to many historians that century and a new era in the human journey began in 1914 with the out break of the world war one. that terrible conflict, after all represented a fratricidal civil war within western civilization, triggered the Russian revolution and the beginning of work communism, and stimulated many in the colonial world to work for their own independence. and the way it ended set the stage for an even more terrible struggle in world war 2. but does the century since 1914 represent a separate phase of world history, granting it that status has become conventional in many world history text books including this one, but there are reasons to wonder whether future generations will agree".

"The Great War which came to be called the rest world ware or world war one (1914-1918), effectively launched the twentieth century considered as a new  phase of world history. that bitter conflict essentially a European civil war with. a global reach provoked the Russian revoultion and the beginnings of world communism. it was followed by the economoic meltdown of the great depression by the rise of nazi Germany and the horror of the holocaust, and by world world 2 an even bloodier and more destructive struggle that encompassed much of the world. during those three decades western Europe for more than a century the dominant and  dominatin center of the modern world system largely self destructed in a process with profound and long term implications far beyond europe itself. by 1945, an outside observer might well have thought that western civilization, which for several centureies was in the ascendancy on the global stage had damaged itself beyond repair. certainly the subsequent emergence of the united sates and the soviet union as rival superpowers marked a very different balance of global power". I got all this  content from the book and I thought it was great content to study on because it gives you a lot of information on what the chapter was about.

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