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Historic events in the 20th century. Toggle Historic events in the 20th century subsection. World at the beginning of the century. "The war to end all wars": World War I (1914–1918) Between the wars. The rise of dictatorship. Global war: World War II (1939–1945) The war in the Pacific. Japanese Expansion.
Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. Historians by field of study (55 C, 1 P) History by topic (48 C, 36 P)
e. Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions. The field can encompass a wide variety of ...
Big History. A diagram of the Big Bang expansion according to NASA. Notable events from the Big Bang to the present day depicted in a spiral layout. Every billion years (Ga) is represented in 90 degrees of rotation. Big History is an academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present.
Late modern period. For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century. For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century. For 1914–1918, see Timeline of World War I. For 1939–1945 see Timeline of World War II.
Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders. [1] It is closely related to other fields of history, including diplomatic history, constitutional history, social history, people's history, and public history. Political history studies the organization and ...
Cultural history – study of culture in the past. Diplomatic history – study of the historical foreign policy and diplomacy of states. History of science – study of the emergence and development of scientific inquiry. Economic history – the study of economics in the past. Environmental history – study of natural history and the human ...
2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [526] [527] [528] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded