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The First World War, or the Great War, as it was known at the time, saw the major European powers struggle for dominance on the world stage, with none of them emerging better off.\n\n![Graph](image://d4abff1c-6f07-4c4b-947f-242a09136ff5 \"British-Indian troops being deployed to fight in France. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nThis was primarily a European conflict that eventually drew in many of the world's powers, including the British Empire, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States on the side of the Allies; and Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria on the side of the Central Powers. The war began following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in June 1914, a spark that ignited already high tensions among the powerful nations.","39b13db8-f57a-4e28-8126-cff5adb653f3",{"id":50,"data":51,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25},"59ecd2de-507b-4633-a53c-8aae13583c96",{"type":35,"markdownContent":52,"audioMediaId":53},"The First World War was notorious for its stagnant trench warfare, which led to enormous losses for minimal territorial gain. New technologies and methods of warfare, such as machine guns, tanks, and chemical weapons, were introduced during this period, contributing to the high casualty rates.\n\n![Graph](image://06203e93-0c62-4427-ad1f-4f2ad904794d \"German soldiers using a machine gun. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nThe conflict concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which imposed heavy reparations and territorial losses on Germany—the principal aggressor according to the Allies. This treaty, however, sowed the seeds of further discontent that would eventually lead to World War II.","c7acd371-f811-4fa3-8ef5-1ef331286032",{"id":55,"data":56,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19,"reviews":59},"e27b46e5-2899-4174-956a-142f259cc1fe",{"type":35,"markdownContent":57,"audioMediaId":58},"While World War I was known as a ‘world’ war, World War II was the first truly global conflict. This war was fought out across many continents and was a true ideological struggle.\n\nIn the aftermath of World War I Germany was left in a state of crisis. Decimated by sanctions, the economy entered a state of hyper-inflation, and there was huge social unrest. Into this power vacuum, the Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler, rose to power.\n\n![Graph](image://56034f91-a5e1-4854-97f0-9c52c8be82af \"Adolf Hitler. Image: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S33882 / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThe Nazis espoused a fascist ideology, believing in the ethnic and cultural superiority of the German people over others. This ideology clashed harshly with the two other political ideologies that were vying for power in Europe at the time: communism and democracy.\n\nGermany's expansionist ambitions and bellicose rhetoric meant that war was soon once again on the horizon for Europe.","4ff71575-661b-4303-a726-a021693bd5d3",[60,81],{"id":61,"data":62,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"da250d6b-5542-403c-80a1-eb7880627abb",{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":64,"multiChoiceQuestion":68,"multiChoiceCorrect":70,"multiChoiceIncorrect":72,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":76,"matchPairsPairs":78},11,[65,66,67],"a5eee0c7-6380-4a85-9bc5-fad1a0498948","17a54109-f768-4d7a-844f-58340fc97623","699fcb93-64c8-4ca5-b51b-a52087aab10d",[69],"Who was the leader of Nazi Germany and the initiator of WWII?",[71],"Adolf Hitler",[73,74,75],"Allied Powers","Axis Powers","United Nations",[77],"Match the pairs below:",[79],{"left":71,"right":80,"direction":19},"Led Nazi Germany, initiated WWII",{"id":82,"data":83,"type":63,"version":25,"maxContentLevel":19},"76925909-c52b-45da-b546-c0077e45afe3",{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"multiChoiceQuestion":84,"multiChoiceCorrect":86,"multiChoiceIncorrect":90,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":93,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[85],"What ideologies were primarily fought over in World War II?",[87,88,89],"Fascism","Communism","Democracy",[91,92],"Monarchism","Feudalism",true,{"id":95,"data":96,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":99},"4b7b98f4-7a7a-4afd-a4e4-45cbbc0a70d5",{"type":35,"markdownContent":97,"audioMediaId":98},"After the failure of various appeasement strategies, the world was once again pulled into a war between the Axis powers – Germany, Italy and Japan – and the Allied powers, who were made up of the USSR, Britain, and the USA.\n\nThe war began with Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. The ensuing war would expand far beyond the European borders, affecting countries in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.\n\n![Graph](image://e5f492ab-9209-4a14-a81c-df0b13309a32 \"German soldiers removing Polish government insignia from buildings. Image: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H27915 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThe Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and millions of other victims, was one of the darkest chapters of World War II, showcasing the brutal racial policies of the Nazi regime. The war also saw the development of the atomic bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war.","56bc8813-934f-4b8e-a3cd-3a5107e494ab",[100],{"id":65,"data":101,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":102,"multiChoiceQuestion":103,"multiChoiceCorrect":105,"multiChoiceIncorrect":106,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":107,"matchPairsPairs":108},[61,66,67],[104],"Which group included America, USSR, and Britain during World War II?",[73],[71,74,75],[77],[109],{"left":73,"right":110,"direction":19},"America, USSR, Britain",{"id":112,"data":113,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":116},"580e05f5-77d7-4ffd-b044-05bb8b2d305b",{"type":35,"markdownContent":114,"audioMediaId":115},"By the end of the war in 1945, there was a new world order. The days of the major European colonial powers were over. Instead, the USA and the USSR, sworn enemies, dominated the globe.\n\nThere was also a new ideological order – the United Nations, set up in the aftermath of the war, worked on the principles of liberalism and world peace. This meant that even nations who were enemies – such as the USA and USSR – were committed on some level to shared goals of global cooperation.\n\n![Graph](image://a5be79d4-8c8a-48e2-8880-67f46ab7bca3 \"The UN General Assembly meets in 1947. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nAn example of this new attempt at global cooperation was the UN Declaration on Human Rights. This committed member nations of the UN to respect the basic rights of all human beings. In many ways, this was rooted in the Enlightenment values we discussed in Tile 3.\n\nThe belief that all lives were valuable, and that there were some rights that could never be taken away from anyone, was a huge development in the global status quo.","14ea0a59-39af-48bd-93bb-3fd33c5cd9e7",[117,128,139],{"id":66,"data":118,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":119,"multiChoiceQuestion":120,"multiChoiceCorrect":122,"multiChoiceIncorrect":123,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":124,"matchPairsPairs":125},[61,65,67],[121],"Which of these groups was made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan?",[74],[71,73,75],[77],[126],{"left":74,"right":127,"direction":19},"Germany, Italy, Japan",{"id":67,"data":129,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":130,"multiChoiceQuestion":131,"multiChoiceCorrect":133,"multiChoiceIncorrect":134,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":135,"matchPairsPairs":136},[61,65,66],[132],"Who is responsible for promoting global cooperation and peace?",[75],[71,73,74],[77],[137],{"left":75,"right":138,"direction":19},"Promotes global cooperation, peace",{"id":140,"data":141,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"f6e1e38b-5db3-4a1a-9381-c7985cd09353",{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":142,"multiChoiceQuestion":146,"multiChoiceCorrect":148,"multiChoiceIncorrect":150,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"orderAxisType":35,"orderQuestion":154,"orderItems":156},[143,144,145],"2227752e-1e6b-4386-b962-b8f62b037782","70c4f1dd-188b-4334-baee-881cf8bd7f3a","7786bd70-6380-4bc5-9262-65755d8d5100",[147],"What significant event took place in 1945?",[149],"End of WWII",[151,152,153],"Russian Revolution","Hungarian Revolution","Prague Spring",[155],"Select the following events in chronological order:",[157],{"label":149,"reveal":158,"sortOrder":35},"1945",{"id":160,"data":161,"type":25,"version":163,"maxContentLevel":19,"summaryPage":164,"introPage":172,"pages":178},"28f93921-c42a-4531-a211-c0e0f9eaa21f",{"type":25,"title":162},"Struggle for Dominance of Political Systems in 20th Century",5,{"id":165,"data":166,"type":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"7ada2a83-2e17-449a-ae36-c2e918ddad82",{"type":19,"summary":167},[168,169,170,171],"The Russian Revolution in 1917 led to the world's first communist government","World War II was a clash of ideologies: fascism, communism, and liberal democracy","The Cold War was a tense standoff between the USA and USSR, marked by proxy wars","The collapse of the USSR in 1991 ended the Cold War and shifted the world towards neoliberalism",{"id":173,"data":174,"type":39,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"5e365be9-c831-4111-b97a-527b28790a3e",{"type":39,"intro":175},[176,177],"What event marked the start of the first communist government?","What was the main cause of the Cold War?",[179,226,243,249,295],{"id":180,"data":181,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":184},"711eccad-22a1-43d0-8dfd-c478f2de4459",{"type":35,"markdownContent":182,"audioMediaId":183},"You may remember our discussion of Karl Marx’s *Communist Manifesto* in Tile 4. Emerging from the worker’s movements of the late Industrial Revolution, the communist ideology advocated for the seizure of the privately-owned means of production (meaning factories and other businesses) to be replaced with a system of public ownership.\n\nThis political movement gathered momentum over the latter half of the nineteenth century. By the time of the outbreak of the First World War, it had fervent supporters across the world.\n\n![Graph](image://22ffbb02-5474-4af3-8181-b282732c536e \"An illustration from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) journal in 1917. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nOne country where this movement was especially strong was Imperial Russia. Russia had been ruled for centuries by the Romanov dynasty, who had made few of the reforms that had modernised other major European powers.\n\nThis fact, in combination with the brutal experience of the First World War, bolstered support for communism. In 1917, led by Vladimir Lenin, the Russian communists staged a violent revolution, killing the royal family and instating the world’s first communist government.","b3ca78fc-2b99-4cd0-95aa-dca7c84eacfd",[185,196,215],{"id":143,"data":186,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":187,"multiChoiceQuestion":188,"multiChoiceCorrect":190,"multiChoiceIncorrect":191,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"orderAxisType":35,"orderQuestion":192,"orderItems":193},[140,144,145],[189],"What significant event took place in Russia in 1917?",[151],[149,152,153],[155],[194],{"label":151,"reveal":195,"sortOrder":4},"1917",{"id":197,"data":198,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"7fe8fb1e-dccd-4d86-8c66-b663569971df",{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":199,"multiChoiceQuestion":203,"multiChoiceCorrect":205,"multiChoiceIncorrect":207,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":211,"matchPairsPairs":212},[200,201,202],"b55bb598-e8c5-422b-86a9-5e826c797bf9","8e0fef52-f5f9-4eb5-9cf9-c642bd3a1abd","e5c94453-cca0-4c69-8475-cd08894aa8de",[204],"Who is the author of the \"Communist Manifesto\"?",[206],"Karl Marx",[208,209,210],"Vladimir Lenin","Joseph Stalin","Mikhail Gorbachev",[77],[213],{"left":206,"right":214,"direction":19},"Wrote \"Communist Manifesto\"",{"id":200,"data":216,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":217,"multiChoiceQuestion":218,"multiChoiceCorrect":220,"multiChoiceIncorrect":221,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":222,"matchPairsPairs":223},[197,201,202],[219],"Who was the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution?",[208],[206,209,210],[77],[224],{"left":208,"right":225,"direction":19},"Led 1917 Russian Revolution",{"id":227,"data":228,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19,"reviews":231},"39d5fbe5-2ba5-451e-aa9a-37a762bb0b52",{"type":35,"markdownContent":229,"audioMediaId":230},"The Russian Revolution marked the arrival of communism, a totally new system of governing and structuring a society, on the global stage. In the imagination of Lenin and his comrades, known as the Bolsheviks, this revolution would take place across the globe, and lead to an emancipated, classless society governed by the workers, for the workers.\n\n![Graph](image://71f830d5-d0f1-4dcc-bd1f-fe8de44d2f24 \"Bolshevik propaganda poster depicting the Russian workers rising up. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nThe reality was different. The revolutionary vision quickly morphed into a totalitarian regime, focusing more on state control and survival than on public welfare. Lenin was succeeded by Joseph Stalin, whose rule was marked by extreme state oppression, extensive purges, and severe famines that claimed millions of lives, leaving a dark imprint on history.","4056abd2-50d0-4dfb-9521-1b62852a8df6",[232],{"id":201,"data":233,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":234,"multiChoiceQuestion":235,"multiChoiceCorrect":237,"multiChoiceIncorrect":238,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":239,"matchPairsPairs":240},[197,200,202],[236],"Who conducted extensive purges during his rule?",[209],[206,208,210],[77],[241],{"left":209,"right":242,"direction":19},"Conducted extensive purges",{"id":244,"data":245,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":248},"47d2248d-09ec-41c3-98e6-e6ef048dc3b3",{"type":35,"markdownContent":246,"audioMediaId":247},"World War II was in many ways a conflict of ideologies. Nazi Germany was under the grip of the fascist ideology, Soviet Russia saw itself as the defender of the communist revolutionary ideology, and Western powers such as Britain and the USA sought to protect the values of liberal democracy and capitalism.\n\nFor the purposes of defeating fascism, there was an uneasy alliance between the Western democratic powers and the Soviet Union. After the Second World War, this alliance crumbled, kicking off the Cold War.\n\n![Graph](image://ad842f62-02e8-4d5c-8f01-3ca97b1a93e1 \"A map of Cold War alliances, with USSR and their allies in red, and the USA and their allies in blue. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nThe Cold War was the ongoing geopolitical tension between the USA and the USSR that followed the Second World War. While it never turned to outright violence between these powers, it came very close on several occasions. There were multiple ‘proxy wars’, such as in Afghanistan and Vietnam, in which the USA and USSR backed two different sides in an attempt to spread their respective ideologies around the world.","20f264f1-25e2-4383-b9e6-e1d7811078ee",4,{"id":250,"data":251,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":248,"reviews":254},"15800b7c-845b-4662-a767-6dc8ae0d3013",{"type":35,"markdownContent":252,"audioMediaId":253},"Over the second half of the 20th century, the USA gradually emerged as the superior economic and military power to the USSR. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakia were both failed attempts to overthrow Soviet power, but they demonstrated that the USSR’s grip on their satellite states was fragile, and that the will of the people was not with them.\n\n![Graph](image://0b6feb47-5775-4265-a201-6459bd9ced1a \"The Prague Spring of 1968. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nAnother major event in the waning of Soviet power was the introduction of perestroika policies in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. These were liberalising reforms that pulled back on some of the draconian restrictions that had defined the Soviet economy for much of the 20th century.\n\nThese events foreshadowed the eventual collapse of Eastern European socialist regimes in 1989 and the subsequent dissolution of the USSR, bringing an end to the Cold War.","f051d018-1090-42c5-9b30-0190ff67578b",[255,266,277,288],{"id":145,"data":256,"type":63,"version":25,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":257,"multiChoiceQuestion":258,"multiChoiceCorrect":260,"multiChoiceIncorrect":261,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"orderAxisType":35,"orderQuestion":262,"orderItems":263},[140,143,144],[259],"What significant event took place in 1968?",[153],[149,151,152],[155],[264],{"label":153,"reveal":265,"sortOrder":19},"1968",{"id":144,"data":267,"type":63,"version":25,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":268,"multiChoiceQuestion":269,"multiChoiceCorrect":271,"multiChoiceIncorrect":272,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"orderAxisType":35,"orderQuestion":273,"orderItems":274},[140,143,145],[270],"What significant event took place in 1956?",[152],[149,151,153],[155],[275],{"label":152,"reveal":276,"sortOrder":25},"1956",{"id":202,"data":278,"type":63,"version":19,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"collapsingSiblings":279,"multiChoiceQuestion":280,"multiChoiceCorrect":282,"multiChoiceIncorrect":283,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":284,"matchPairsPairs":285},[197,200,201],[281],"Who introduced the perestroika policies?",[210],[206,208,209],[77],[286],{"left":210,"right":287,"direction":19},"Introduced perestroika policies",{"id":289,"data":290,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"f9b662ed-3512-4d6e-97da-68c7db94fe0e",{"type":63,"reviewType":35,"spacingBehaviour":35,"activeRecallQuestion":291,"activeRecallAnswers":293},[292],"What marked the end of the Cold War?",[294],"The dissolution of the USSR",{"id":296,"data":297,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"bfe92f15-ac6b-44c4-8695-572afa69ae51",{"type":35,"markdownContent":298,"audioMediaId":299},"The twilight years of the 20th century also saw a notable shift towards neoliberalism, a response to the disintegration of traditional ideologies and the decline of the post-war consensus around liberal democracy and welfare states. Following the collapse of communism, neoliberal policies emphasizing market efficiency and minimal state intervention became the norm worldwide.\n\nBy the 1990s, it was felt by many that the war of ideologies was over forever – free-market capitalism and liberal democracy stood undefeated as the dominant ways of organising societies and governments. Political theorist Francis Fukuyama went as far as to say that this was the ‘end of history’ – the age of great upheavals of the world order was over. Or so he thought.","e9802e69-cc35-4cc2-bfc3-b0ccb5be83d6",{"id":301,"data":302,"type":25,"version":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"summaryPage":304,"introPage":312,"pages":318},"47342b31-d139-491e-8f81-839aa816ebaf",{"type":25,"title":303},"The Rise of Technology and the Globalised World",{"id":305,"data":306,"type":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"4735fc91-429f-4021-9086-ff6178cf3c7d",{"type":19,"summary":307},[308,309,310,311],"The Colossus and ENIAC computers were built during WWII for secure communication and rapid calculations","The invention of the transistor in 1947 revolutionized electronics and computing","The internet, starting as a U.S. Department of Defense project, became a global phenomenon by the mid-1990s","Container shipping and the Boeing 747 jumbo jet in the 1960s drastically reduced the cost and increased the speed of global trade",{"id":313,"data":314,"type":39,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"55bcba83-2c19-490d-917c-493566828961",{"type":39,"intro":315},[316,317],"What was the first major leap in computing during WWII?","How did the invention of the transistor in 1947 change electronics?",[319,336,353,358],{"id":320,"data":321,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":324},"7a998284-3030-4378-a29f-f5ee00cede99",{"type":35,"markdownContent":322,"audioMediaId":323},"Running in parallel to the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century, a quiet revolution was occuring. This was a revolution in technology, and from its humble beginnings in the garages of hobbyists, it would go on to have a more profound impact than any of the grand ideological battles that people thought were shaping the world.\n\nThe Ancient Greeks and Chinese had developed their own rudimentary versions of computing machines, and some steps towards modern computing were made in the 19th century, but the first major leap forward in computing came during the Second World War, with the development of the Colossus and ENIAC computers.\n\n![Graph](image://0b0ef17d-b99d-4405-ad34-0c7e95019ed0 \"The Colossus Mark 2 code breaking computer, 1943. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nThese machines were created to meet urgent wartime needs for secure communication and rapid complex calculations, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of digital technology.","d42fb2d8-c8e3-47eb-965e-a95d7e4b3efa",[325],{"id":326,"data":327,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"f15a7950-fa8f-41d0-89db-e00ec4bdcdb0",{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"multiChoiceQuestion":328,"multiChoiceCorrect":330,"multiChoiceIncorrect":332,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[329],"What was one of the first major leaps forward in computing technology during WWII?",[331],"ENIAC and Colossus",[333,334,335],"The Internet","Microprocessor","Smartphone",{"id":337,"data":338,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19,"reviews":341},"87812c31-fb56-496c-9dab-8a40e6773b05",{"type":35,"markdownContent":339,"audioMediaId":340},"Post-1945, the world saw significant technological breakthroughs that had a profound impact on global connectivity. The invention of the transistor in 1947, for instance, revolutionized electronics and computing. Transistors led to smaller, more efficient electronic devices and were foundational in the development of computers, mobile phones, and other digital technologies that now underpin the global information economy.\n\n![Graph](image://f2546ade-6f27-404e-86f2-d03ad63d58f9 \"Working replica of the first working transistor. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nThe 1960s and 1970s further accelerated this pace with the advent of satellites and fiber optics, dramatically enhancing communication capabilities across continents. Satellites enabled real-time, cross-continental broadcasting of television and radio, shrinking the global village and allowing people to witness worldwide events simultaneously.\n\nMeanwhile, fiber optics, developed primarily in the 1970s, provided the backbone for the Internet and global telecommunications, supporting faster and more reliable data transfer.","9eb7d8b9-063a-4d6b-b860-b8eceb6e07d5",[342],{"id":343,"data":344,"type":63,"version":35,"maxContentLevel":19},"983af8a3-3040-4d7b-9e98-2abe5d0738b9",{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"multiChoiceQuestion":345,"multiChoiceCorrect":347,"multiChoiceIncorrect":349,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[346],"What invention in 1947 revolutionized electronics and computing?",[348],"Transistor",[350,351,352],"Microchip","Television","Radio",{"id":354,"data":355,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25},"1b715afa-b834-4586-9e75-c7593099ee06",{"type":35,"markdownContent":356,"audioMediaId":357},"In the second tile we spoke about the invention of the alphabet, which radically increased the ease with which people could record information. In the third tile, we saw how the invention of the printing press led this information capacity to grow by another order of magnitude.\n\nIn the 1980s, the invention of the internet, and later the world wide web, was a similarly seismic growth event in the history of the recording and sharing of human information.\n\n![Graph](image://a7617d26-bf10-4355-9145-174c3903f694 \"First logo of the World Wide Web project. Image: Fakefunk, CC BY-SA 4.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nInitially a project within the United States Department of Defense, the Internet spread to academic and then commercial networks, eventually becoming a global phenomenon. 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Brands and consumer culture spread worldwide, and a more integrated world economy began to reflect a shared, though diverse, global culture.","6dba11ca-02d2-45cf-97ea-785fb18fc107",[364],{"id":365,"data":366,"type":63,"version":25,"maxContentLevel":19},"0778c57c-f232-420a-a142-33563eb9fe11",{"type":63,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":35,"multiChoiceQuestion":367,"multiChoiceCorrect":369,"multiChoiceIncorrect":373,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":93,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[368],"What were the major technological advancements that changed global trade and communication in the 1960s?",[370,371,372],"Container shipping","Boeing 747","Satellites",[374,375],"Telegraph","Steam engine",{"id":377,"data":378,"type":25,"version":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"summaryPage":380,"introPage":388,"pages":394},"0b89e178-ccec-4128-a809-502ebb048413",{"type":25,"title":379},"Into the 21st Century",{"id":381,"data":382,"type":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"20e3e79e-833b-4c5e-ba4a-39d71dd7c558",{"type":19,"summary":383},[384,385,386,387],"The 21st century began with the 9/11 attacks, sparking the global \"War on Terror\"","The 2008 financial crash exposed the fragility of global financial systems","China and India emerged as major economic powerhouses, reshaping global dynamics","Social media and COVID-19 have drastically changed social and economic landscapes",{"id":389,"data":390,"type":39,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35},"1c358944-24a4-4ad5-8d9d-5d7fe1c038d9",{"type":39,"intro":391},[392,393],"What event triggered the global \"War on Terror\"?","How did the 2008 financial crash change global economic policies?",[395,400,405,410],{"id":396,"data":397,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19},"3bb2afa6-c026-4296-a48b-f6109a45063f",{"type":35,"markdownContent":398,"audioMediaId":399},"As the twentieth century came to an end, the world entered a new era, where many of the prevailing trends of the 20th century would fall by the wayside, as the world realised new global struggles.\n\nThe century began with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, which tragically struck the United States, leading to profound global repercussions. This event precipitated the global 'War on Terror', including the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States and its allies. These conflicts not only led to significant loss of life and political instability in the Middle East but also affected international relations and internal security policies worldwide.\n\n![Graph](image://ae89bb96-5914-4fa3-a73e-a20b5535df10 \"The 9/11 attacks in New York. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nIn the economic sphere, the 21st century witnessed significant shifts. The financial crash of 2008 marked an end to decades of economic consensus, originating from the collapse of the housing market bubble in the United States and quickly spreading as a global financial crisis.\n\nThis event highlighted the vulnerabilities of interconnected global financial systems and led to widespread economic downturns, prompting changes in regulatory frameworks and fiscal policies in numerous countries. 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Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia\")\n\nAnother significant storyline of the 21st century is the rise of India as a major economic and technological hub. With its large and youthful population, India has presented itself as a significant counterbalance to China in Asia. Its economic growth has been bolstered by advancements in information technology and services, making it a critical node in the global economy.","e138f27b-1e64-4216-91e7-d12622a934fd",{"id":406,"data":407,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25},"e2debea3-8ad4-4915-8828-e553fad89f03",{"type":35,"markdownContent":408,"audioMediaId":409},"The technological advances of the 21st century have also profoundly affected social dynamics, particularly through the rise of social media. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have created a world in which people are more connected – and less private – than ever before. Large-scale political movements such as the Arab Spring and the Black Lives Matter protests in America have been supercharged by the arrival of these instant communication platforms.\n\n![Graph](image://316cb46b-635c-4720-a552-f3ae8f65d1e2 \"Protestors in Egypt during the Arab Spring of 2011. Image: Jonathan Rashad, CC BY 2.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nFinally, the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 has had sweeping impacts on the global stage, affecting every aspect of human life. The pandemic triggered global health crises and severe economic disruptions, leading to a reevaluation of globalization, health policy, and economic structures. 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New technologies and methods of warfare, such as machine guns, tanks, and chemical weapons, were introduced during this period, contributing to the high casualty rates.",{"type":443,"children":474},[475,479,487],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":476,"children":477},{},[478],{"type":451,"value":472},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":480,"children":481},{},[482],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":483,"children":486},{"alt":458,"src":484,"title":485},"image://06203e93-0c62-4427-ad1f-4f2ad904794d","German soldiers using a machine gun. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia",[],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":488,"children":489},{},[490],{"type":451,"value":491},"The conflict concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which imposed heavy reparations and territorial losses on Germany—the principal aggressor according to the Allies. 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This ideology clashed harshly with the two other political ideologies that were vying for power in Europe at the time: communism and democracy.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":523,"children":524},{},[525],{"type":451,"value":526},"Germany's expansionist ambitions and bellicose rhetoric meant that war was soon once again on the horizon for Europe.",{"title":440,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":528},[],{"id":95,"data":96,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":99,"parsed":530},{"data":531,"body":533,"toc":557},{"title":440,"description":532},"After the failure of various appeasement strategies, the world was once again pulled into a war between the Axis powers – Germany, Italy and Japan – and the Allied powers, who were made up of the USSR, Britain, and the USA.",{"type":443,"children":534},[535,539,544,552],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":536,"children":537},{},[538],{"type":451,"value":532},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":540,"children":541},{},[542],{"type":451,"value":543},"The war began with Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. The ensuing war would expand far beyond the European borders, affecting countries in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":545,"children":546},{},[547],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":548,"children":551},{"alt":458,"src":549,"title":550},"image://e5f492ab-9209-4a14-a81c-df0b13309a32","German soldiers removing Polish government insignia from buildings. Image: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H27915 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons",[],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":553,"children":554},{},[555],{"type":451,"value":556},"The Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and millions of other victims, was one of the darkest chapters of World War II, showcasing the brutal racial policies of the Nazi regime. The war also saw the development of the atomic bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war.",{"title":440,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":558},[],{"id":112,"data":113,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":116,"parsed":560},{"data":561,"body":563,"toc":592},{"title":440,"description":562},"By the end of the war in 1945, there was a new world order. The days of the major European colonial powers were over. Instead, the USA and the USSR, sworn enemies, dominated the globe.",{"type":443,"children":564},[565,569,574,582,587],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":566,"children":567},{},[568],{"type":451,"value":562},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":570,"children":571},{},[572],{"type":451,"value":573},"There was also a new ideological order – the United Nations, set up in the aftermath of the war, worked on the principles of liberalism and world peace. This meant that even nations who were enemies – such as the USA and USSR – were committed on some level to shared goals of global cooperation.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":575,"children":576},{},[577],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":578,"children":581},{"alt":458,"src":579,"title":580},"image://a5be79d4-8c8a-48e2-8880-67f46ab7bca3","The UN General Assembly meets in 1947. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia",[],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":583,"children":584},{},[585],{"type":451,"value":586},"An example of this new attempt at global cooperation was the UN Declaration on Human Rights. This committed member nations of the UN to respect the basic rights of all human beings. 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Emerging from the worker’s movements of the late Industrial Revolution, the communist ideology advocated for the seizure of the privately-owned means of production (meaning factories and other businesses) to be replaced with a system of public ownership.",{"type":443,"children":601},[602,615,620,628,633],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":603,"children":604},{},[605,607,613],{"type":451,"value":606},"You may remember our discussion of Karl Marx’s ",{"type":446,"tag":608,"props":609,"children":610},"em",{},[611],{"type":451,"value":612},"Communist Manifesto",{"type":451,"value":614}," in Tile 4. Emerging from the worker’s movements of the late Industrial Revolution, the communist ideology advocated for the seizure of the privately-owned means of production (meaning factories and other businesses) to be replaced with a system of public ownership.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":616,"children":617},{},[618],{"type":451,"value":619},"This political movement gathered momentum over the latter half of the nineteenth century. By the time of the outbreak of the First World War, it had fervent supporters across the world.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":621,"children":622},{},[623],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":624,"children":627},{"alt":458,"src":625,"title":626},"image://22ffbb02-5474-4af3-8181-b282732c536e","An illustration from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) journal in 1917. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia",[],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":629,"children":630},{},[631],{"type":451,"value":632},"One country where this movement was especially strong was Imperial Russia. Russia had been ruled for centuries by the Romanov dynasty, who had made few of the reforms that had modernised other major European powers.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":634,"children":635},{},[636],{"type":451,"value":637},"This fact, in combination with the brutal experience of the First World War, bolstered support for communism. In 1917, led by Vladimir Lenin, the Russian communists staged a violent revolution, killing the royal family and instating the world’s first communist government.",{"title":440,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":639},[],{"id":227,"data":228,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":19,"reviews":231,"parsed":641},{"data":642,"body":644,"toc":663},{"title":440,"description":643},"The Russian Revolution marked the arrival of communism, a totally new system of governing and structuring a society, on the global stage. In the imagination of Lenin and his comrades, known as the Bolsheviks, this revolution would take place across the globe, and lead to an emancipated, classless society governed by the workers, for the workers.",{"type":443,"children":645},[646,650,658],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":647,"children":648},{},[649],{"type":451,"value":643},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":651,"children":652},{},[653],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":654,"children":657},{"alt":458,"src":655,"title":656},"image://71f830d5-d0f1-4dcc-bd1f-fe8de44d2f24","Bolshevik propaganda poster depicting the Russian workers rising up. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia",[],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":659,"children":660},{},[661],{"type":451,"value":662},"The reality was different. The revolutionary vision quickly morphed into a totalitarian regime, focusing more on state control and survival than on public welfare. Lenin was succeeded by Joseph Stalin, whose rule was marked by extreme state oppression, extensive purges, and severe famines that claimed millions of lives, leaving a dark imprint on history.",{"title":440,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":664},[],{"id":244,"data":245,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":248,"parsed":666},{"data":667,"body":669,"toc":693},{"title":440,"description":668},"World War II was in many ways a conflict of ideologies. Nazi Germany was under the grip of the fascist ideology, Soviet Russia saw itself as the defender of the communist revolutionary ideology, and Western powers such as Britain and the USA sought to protect the values of liberal democracy and capitalism.",{"type":443,"children":670},[671,675,680,688],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":672,"children":673},{},[674],{"type":451,"value":668},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":676,"children":677},{},[678],{"type":451,"value":679},"For the purposes of defeating fascism, there was an uneasy alliance between the Western democratic powers and the Soviet Union. After the Second World War, this alliance crumbled, kicking off the Cold War.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":681,"children":682},{},[683],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":684,"children":687},{"alt":458,"src":685,"title":686},"image://ad842f62-02e8-4d5c-8f01-3ca97b1a93e1","A map of Cold War alliances, with USSR and their allies in red, and the USA and their allies in blue. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia",[],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":689,"children":690},{},[691],{"type":451,"value":692},"The Cold War was the ongoing geopolitical tension between the USA and the USSR that followed the Second World War. While it never turned to outright violence between these powers, it came very close on several occasions. There were multiple ‘proxy wars’, such as in Afghanistan and Vietnam, in which the USA and USSR backed two different sides in an attempt to spread their respective ideologies around the world.",{"title":440,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":694},[],{"id":250,"data":251,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":248,"reviews":254,"parsed":696},{"data":697,"body":699,"toc":723},{"title":440,"description":698},"Over the second half of the 20th century, the USA gradually emerged as the superior economic and military power to the USSR. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakia were both failed attempts to overthrow Soviet power, but they demonstrated that the USSR’s grip on their satellite states was fragile, and that the will of the people was not with them.",{"type":443,"children":700},[701,705,713,718],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":702,"children":703},{},[704],{"type":451,"value":698},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":706,"children":707},{},[708],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":709,"children":712},{"alt":458,"src":710,"title":711},"image://0b6feb47-5775-4265-a201-6459bd9ced1a","The Prague Spring of 1968. Image: Public Domain via Wikipedia",[],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":714,"children":715},{},[716],{"type":451,"value":717},"Another major event in the waning of Soviet power was the introduction of perestroika policies in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. These were liberalising reforms that pulled back on some of the draconian restrictions that had defined the Soviet economy for much of the 20th century.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":719,"children":720},{},[721],{"type":451,"value":722},"These events foreshadowed the eventual collapse of Eastern European socialist regimes in 1989 and the subsequent dissolution of the USSR, bringing an end to the Cold War.",{"title":440,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":724},[],{"id":296,"data":297,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":35,"parsed":726},{"data":727,"body":729,"toc":740},{"title":440,"description":728},"The twilight years of the 20th century also saw a notable shift towards neoliberalism, a response to the disintegration of traditional ideologies and the decline of the post-war consensus around liberal democracy and welfare states. Following the collapse of communism, neoliberal policies emphasizing market efficiency and minimal state intervention became the norm worldwide.",{"type":443,"children":730},[731,735],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":732,"children":733},{},[734],{"type":451,"value":728},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":736,"children":737},{},[738],{"type":451,"value":739},"By the 1990s, it was felt by many that the war of ideologies was over forever – free-market capitalism and liberal democracy stood undefeated as the dominant ways of organising societies and governments. Political theorist Francis Fukuyama went as far as to say that this was the ‘end of history’ – the age of great upheavals of the world order was over. Or so he thought.",{"title":440,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":741},[],{"id":301,"data":302,"type":25,"version":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"summaryPage":304,"introPage":312,"pages":743},[744,774,804,834],{"id":320,"data":321,"type":35,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":25,"reviews":324,"parsed":745},{"data":746,"body":748,"toc":772},{"title":440,"description":747},"Running in parallel to the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century, a quiet revolution was occuring. This was a revolution in technology, and from its humble beginnings in the garages of hobbyists, it would go on to have a more profound impact than any of the grand ideological battles that people thought were shaping the world.",{"type":443,"children":749},[750,754,759,767],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":751,"children":752},{},[753],{"type":451,"value":747},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":755,"children":756},{},[757],{"type":451,"value":758},"The Ancient Greeks and Chinese had developed their own rudimentary versions of computing machines, and some steps towards modern computing were made in the 19th century, but the first major leap forward in computing came during the Second World War, with the development of the Colossus and ENIAC computers.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":760,"children":761},{},[762],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":763,"children":766},{"alt":458,"src":764,"title":765},"image://0b0ef17d-b99d-4405-ad34-0c7e95019ed0","The Colossus Mark 2 code breaking computer, 1943. 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Multinational corporations expanded their operations worldwide, supported by advances in transportation technology, such as the development of container shipping and the Boeing 747 jumbo jet in the 1960s.",{"type":443,"children":839},[840,844,849,857],{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":841,"children":842},{},[843],{"type":451,"value":837},{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":845,"children":846},{},[847],{"type":451,"value":848},"These innovations drastically reduced the cost and increased the speed of global trade. Financial markets also became tightly integrated, thanks in part to real-time communications and the electronic processing of transactions, epitomized by the globalization of stock exchanges and capital markets.",{"type":446,"tag":447,"props":850,"children":851},{},[852],{"type":446,"tag":456,"props":853,"children":856},{"alt":458,"src":854,"title":855},"image://a7493e7a-66e2-453f-9b88-dff8f6ccc212","A digital stock market board in the Philippines. 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