1. Contemporary Era Chart and Definitions
1900-Present

2. Contemporary Era Important Events
WWI
Dates: July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918
Groups involved: Britain, France, Italy, Russia, U.S. vs. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Causes: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Outcomes: League of Nations, unfair Treaty of Versailles, Mandate States, WWII

3. Contemporary Era Important Events
Russian Revolution
Dates: March 1917 – February 1918
Groups involved: Working class, Bolsheviks
Causes: angry working class, Poor ruling by Czar, desire to exit WWI
Outcomes: Vladimir Lenin takes over, implements industrial reforms, installs a Marxist government

4. Contemporary Era Important Events
WWII
Dates: September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945
Groups involved: Britain, France, Russia, U.S. vs. Germany, Italy, Japan
Causes: Treaty of Versailles, Rise of totalitarian dictators, aggressive foreign policy
Outcomes: Europe in ruins, Soviet Union and U.S. main World Powers, Cold War

5. Contemporary Era Important Events
Cold War
Dates: 1947 – 1991
Groups involved: U.S. vs. Soviet Union
Causes: Capitalist vs. Communist ideology, economic and military competition, increased nuclear threat
Outcomes: Collapse of the Soviet Union, independence for Soviet Republics, Germany re-unified

6. Contemporary Era Important Events
Chinese Communist Revolution
Dates:
Groups involved: Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Causes: Control of China by other countries, unfair treatment of peasants, Young people’s desire to modernize China
Outcomes: transformed the lives of women, education declined, redistribution of land to peasants

7. Contemporary Vocab Nationalism (2 definitions) Globalization Genocide
1) The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance
2) the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation
Globalization
The process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.
Genocide
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.