Twentieth Century
The twentieth century spans the years 1901 through 2000, though in casual usage people often mean the 1900s.
It was marked by two world wars, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, rapid technological advancement, and sweeping social change.
When used as a compound adjective, it's typically hyphenated: twentieth-century art.
The phrase can suggest something outdated: That's such a twentieth-century way of thinking.
- DecolonizationEnding foreign imperial rule
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- mass mediaLarge-scale communication channels
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
Jazz Age · rock and roll · Cold War · iron curtain · moon landing · Harlem Renaissance · art deco · Counterculture · Great Depression · Vietnam War · Russian Revolution · women's suffrage · assembly line · silent film · Surrealism · Existentialism · Robotics · Mao Zedong
- Screwball ComediesBringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, fast-talking
- Geometric FontsFutura, Bauhaus, Gotham, Montserrat, Metro
Twentieth Centuryprehistory
Era before writing
Stone Age · Middle Ages · antiquity · Dark Ages · Bronze Age
Twentieth CenturyAge of Empires
Historical real-time strategy series
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