enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Key events of the 20th century - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_events_of_the_20th_century

    The 20th century changed the world in unprecedented ways. The World Wars sparked tension between countries and led to the creation of atomic bombs, the Cold War led to the Space Race and the creation of space-based rockets, and the World Wide Web was created.

  3. 20th century - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century

    The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). [1] [2] It was the 10th and last century of the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and entertainment.

  4. Timeline of the 20th century - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_20th_century

    May 31: Establishment of 20th Century Fox. March 21: Reza Shah of Iran asks the international community to formally adopt the name "Iran" to refer to the country, instead of the name "Persia". June 12: Chaco War ends. September 15: Enactment of the Nuremberg racial laws. October 3: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War begins and goes until February 1937.

  5. 20th century in science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century_in_science

    The 20th century saw mathematics become a major profession. As in most areas of study, the explosion of knowledge in the scientific age has led to specialization: by the end of the century there were hundreds of specialized areas in mathematics and the Mathematics Subject Classification was dozens of pages long. [72]

  6. Category:Years of the 20th century - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Years_of_the_20th...

    View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; ... Years of the 20th century by country (375 C) 0–9. 1901 (29 C, 17 P) 1902 (30 ...

  7. 20th century BC - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century_BC

    March 5, 1953 BC: A computer calculated alignment of the naked-eye planets took place in a new moon, and in spring season, and is believed by researchers from NASA, to be the starting event for the Chinese calendar, as they followed descriptions from a 1st Century B.C. Chinese passage "Hong Fan Zhuan" by 'Liu Xiang', to search for this ...

  8. Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times:_A_History_of...

    Johnson describes world history beginning with the aftermath of World War I, and ending with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.. In the first part of the book, Johnson deals mainly with the shaping of the Soviet Union in the first decades after World War I, the collapse of democracy in Central Europe due to the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, the causes that led to World War ...

  9. Raising of school leaving age in England and Wales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_school_leaving...

    Following the war, the birth rate steadily increased and in 1920 had reached the highest it had ever been in the country's history. It then subsequently fell, meaning that in 1933, a considerable number of children were due to leave school, while far fewer were entering school at the early ages.