Tag: twentieth-century

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Chapter 55: Twilight of Empires — World History 101

How Europe lost the world: the decolonization wave that turned a continent of empires into a continent of mid-sized countries.
Chapter 56: Women’s Liberation in the Age of Mass Media — World History 101

Second-wave feminism, the workplace, and intersectionality: how the postwar women’s movement reframed equality as a daily-life issue rather than a constitutional one.
Chapter 58: The Neoliberal Order — World History 101

Supply-side economics, Reagan and Thatcher, and the global shift from Keynesian welfare to free-market austerity that defined the late twentieth century.
Chapter 60: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union — World History 101

Stagnation, glasnost, perestroika, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the August 1991 coup that ended the USSR.
Chapter 61: South Africa and the Legacy of Apartheid — World History 101

From the Sharpeville massacre to Mandela’s presidency: how a white-minority regime built apartheid, why it fell, and what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission tried to do next.