September 13, 1995
At the beginning of the twentieth century the world was stable and certain, but unequal. The Paris Exhibition of 1900 symbolises t...Read more
September 14, 1995
The Great War is fought with larger armies and deadlier weapons than ever before, bringing death and carnage on an unprecedented s...Read more
September 15, 1995
The October Revolution brings forth a new Marxist-Leninist society in what becomes the Soviet Union. Its people, now freed from fe...Read more
September 16, 1995
The trauma of the First World War gives Europe no appetite for any further conflicts, but within subsequent two decades the world ...Read more
September 17, 1995
Henry Ford uses Taylorism, division of labour and the assembly line to manufacture automobiles, and other industries in the United...Read more
September 18, 1995
The cinema excites, inspires and influences people seeking escape from their usually dull lives. Hollywood booms in the 1920s, and...Read more
September 19, 1995
The Great Depression and its effects (and government counter-measures) in Britain, the United States, Sweden, Germany and Chile.
September 20, 1995
Once an amateur pursuit, sport becomes larger and more competitiveness to satisfy the public's need for excitement and identity. C...Read more
September 21, 1995
The Third Reich brings barbarity to the modern era. Germany is rebuilt through huge public works program, winning Hitler adulation...Read more
September 22, 1995
The Second World War enmeshes civilians to the horrors of war on an unprecedented scale. Germany and Japan, in seeking living spac...Read more
September 23, 1995
Nuclear weapons make the world more dangerous than ever before. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by atom bombs is...Read more
September 24, 1995
Despite being allies against Hitler, disagreement and rivalry soon break out between the Soviet Union and the West, leading to the...Read more
September 25, 1995
European powers are forced to relinquish their colonies in Africa following the Second World War, but in most cases the newly inde...Read more
September 26, 1995
The rebuilding of Europe and the economic boom in the West, up to the 1973 oil shock.
September 27, 1995
Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity and co...Read more
September 28, 1995
Medical advances allow people to live longer and healthier lives. Penicillin is developed in time to save lives during the Second ...Read more
September 29, 1995
Through non-violent and more direct methods, people rally to fight segregation in South Africa, and several states in the United S...Read more
September 30, 1995
Rising consumption patterns extract a huge toll on nature. Toxic contamination in Minamata and Love Canal and the Torrey Canyon an...Read more
October 1, 1995
Governments, advertisers and revolutionaries seek to exploit television's ability to instantly communicate compelling messages to ...Read more
October 2, 1995
Communism helps modernise China, but the decisions and personality cult of Mao Tse Tung has a traumatic affect on Chinese society....Read more
October 3, 1995
The baby boom produced a cohort of children in the affluent and secure post-war world who for the first time would question establ...Read more
October 4, 1995
Women struggle to win political and economic rights in societies gamed to entrench male privilege. Even with limited suffrage, aft...Read more
October 5, 1995
While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpower rivalr...Read more
October 6, 1995
Religion makes a comeback into people's lives in the Islamic world and elsewhere, as people seek guidance and spiritual sustenance...Read more
October 7, 1995
The end of communism in Europe and the fall of the Soviet Union. Opening credits show the fall of the Berlin Wall.
October 8, 1995
Governments around the world liberalise trade and withdraw from intervening in the economy, giving new opportunities to those who ...Read more