Intro Part Six, Chapter 20 (pp. 973-1017) + Chapter 20 documents (pp. 1018-1033)

New Era started in 1914~beginning of WORLD WAR I (Great War) [1914-1918]

(start)World War I>Russian Revolution(world communism)>Great Depression>Nazi Germany>World War II (end)?

End=Soviet Union 1991? September 11? Economic crisis 2008?

WORLD WAR I
*spark* Serbian nationalist assassinates heir to Austro-Hungarian throne~>Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Austria-Hungary ally = Germany(powerful)
Serbian ally = Russia

Great Powers                                               

• Russia
• Great Britain
• France
• Austria-Hungary
• Italy 
• Germany

Triple Alliance

• Germany
• Italy
• Austria

Triple Entente

• France 
• Russia
• Great Britain 

Great war brought US to center stage as global power

League of Nations(Woodrow Wilson), to keep global peace

GREAT DEPRESSION

-flaws in capitalism 

-GD 1929

-October 24, 1929 stock market crash =suicide, banks closed,investments dried up, world trade drop by 62%, business unable to sell, unemployment

-Unemployment rates 30% or more in Germany + US. 

WORLD WAR II

global conflict between Asia and Europe

problem was rise in Chinese nationalism which threatened Japan

United States didn't want to join in war because if the economic troubles of the great Depression >> Pearl Harbor inevitably made their decision

-Pearl Harbor December 1941

US put an end to war with bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945