Early 20th Century


The early 20th century is considered by most historians as more closely related to the 19th century. It is noted for the breakup of most of the empires of the early modern period. In large part, this came as a consequence of the first World War. In the aftermath of this unexpectedly widespread, long, and appallingly destructive war, there were widespread rearrangements of colonies and their administration, and an attempt to form a world government was made.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience History Modern History 20th Century Early 1900s Late 1900s Early 1910s Late 1910s

The early 20th century is considered by most historians as more closely related to the 19th century. It is noted for the breakup of most of the empires of the early modern period. In large part, this came as a consequence of the first World War. In the aftermath of this unexpectedly widespread, long, and appallingly destructive war, there were widespread rearrangements of colonies and their administration, and an attempt to form a world government was made.

Early 1900s

The Boxer rebellion was brought to an end in China.

1901 Marconi demonstrates trans-atlantic radio communication.
c. 1904 - 1930 Rutherford investigates radioactivity and nuclear structure.
1905 Einstein publishes four papers in theoretical physics with profound theoretical consequences.
1903 - 1908 Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, make the first trials of powered, sustained, and controlled flight and develop the first airplanes.
1903 Ford establishes the Ford Motor Company.
1905 Freud publishes his theories of sexuality and its influence on psychological development.
1905 Ford introduces the Model T, which makes automobiles affordable for most American families.

Late 1900s

Alghough there was serious unrest in Russia, increased disssatisfaction with British rule in India, and serious unrest in China, particular events belonging to this period have not yet been noted.

Early 1910s

In the early 1910s, World War I, then known as "The Great War" began. The US stayed out of the war as a neutral at first.

c. 1911/12 The Manchu or Ch'ing dynasty of China ends. China was partly governed by an initially Republican but increasingly dictatorial nationalist party.
1913 Ford introduces assembly line techniques of mass production of automobiles.
1913 - 1930 Freud extends his psychoanalytic theories to the study of society.

Late 1910s

The United States entered World War I on the side of Great Britain and France, and President Wilson proposed a world government, the League of nations, which the US then refused to join. The post-imperial government of China was proving to be weak and unstable.

c. 1915-1918 CE. World War I, the "Great War" changes the modern world.
1917 CE. Lenin led a revolution that overthrew the Russian monarchy and took control of the Russian empire. Russia withdrew in defeat from World War I


Other history Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory may be indirectly useful in examination of this period. Antiquity including the 5th millennium BC, 4th millennium BC, 3rd millennium BC, and 2nd millennium BC can be connected. The early 1st millennium BC including the 10th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be connected.
Classical and medieval history Early classical history including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical history including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected. Early medieval history including the 6th century, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval history including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be connected. Other modern history The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected. The events of this period are a continuation of the 19th century. The early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, and late mid 19th century can be connected. This directly follows the late 19th century, including the early 1880s, late 1880s, early 1890s, and late 1890s. Other 20th century They are continued in the early mid 20th century. The mid 20th century and late mid 20th century can be connected. They have also been examined in the late 20th century, including the early 1980s, the late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s and in the early 21st century, including the early 2000s, late 2000s, and early 2010s. The future including the near future, middle future, and far future can be connected. Sociology Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine events of the early 1900s, late 1900s, early 1910s, and late 1910s. Institutions Religion, government, economics, education, and families can be used to examine the early 20th century. Religion Particular traditions such as Abrahamic, Asiatic, secular, and pagan will be discussed. Religious organization can be connected. Religious practice can be considered. Religious beliefs can be examined. Government Particular governments including local, national, and international government can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations can be considered. Government structure including parties and interest groups, judicial systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forst of government will be useful. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be considered. Economics Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be connected. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacturing industries, building construction,social and medical services, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services are important. Economic activity including production, distribution, and consumption can be considered. Education Schools including primary education, secondary education, and higher education can be connected. Educational organization including course material, students, faculty, and administration can be connected. Cultural institutions including museums, libraries, and performance venues may be useful. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. Families Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected. Culture Behavioral culture, conceptual culture, and material culture can be used to examine the early 20th century. Behavioral culture Cultural events including holidays, disasters, gatherings, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including food-related, building-related, transportation-related, communications-related, industrial, and service occupations are important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interation customs, and institutional customs are important. Conceptual Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography are important. Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world is important. Material culture Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, toys, and medical technology can be connected. Communications techology including electronic communication, written communication, and graphic communication can be connected. Transportation technology including air transportation, water transportation, and land transportation can be connected. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including agricultural products, preserved and processed foods, and prepared foods are useful. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial technology including tools, fuels, chemical technology, machinery, utilities, and other artifacts is significant. Anthropology Particular groups Particular groups can be connected. Wright Brothers American Academy of Arts and Sciences Royal Society Other groups that do some investigation of this period include: World History Association Human geography including European geography, African Geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography will be vital. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will be useful. Human ecology including the influence of the environment on peoples, relationships with other life, and the influence of people on the environment can be considered. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion may be useful. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be connected. Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, group types, and group behavior may be useful. Personal studies This will depend considerably on biography of individuals. Edison Einstein Marconi Hitler Bell Fleming Heisenberg Rutherford Planck Lister Stalin Freud Roentgen Fermi Kennedy Pincus Lenin Mao Ford Curie Gandhi Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology can be connected. The human body including body systems, body functions, human life cycle, disease, and form and appearance can be connected. Science Biology, earth science, astronomy, chemistry, and physics can b applied to the early 20th century. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory can be connected.Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory can be connected. Astronomy including solar system astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, and cosmology can be connected. Chemistry including the examination of chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity theory, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.

Other history

Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory may be indirectly useful in examination of this period.

Antiquity including the 5th millennium BC, 4th millennium BC, 3rd millennium BC, and 2nd millennium BC can be connected. The early 1st millennium BC including the 10th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be connected.

Classical and medieval history

Early classical history including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical history including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected. Early medieval history including the 6th century, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval history including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be connected.

Other modern history

The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected.

The events of this period are a continuation of the 19th century. The early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, and late mid 19th century can be connected. This directly follows the late 19th century, including the early 1880s, late 1880s, early 1890s, and late 1890s.

Other 20th century

They are continued in the early mid 20th century. The mid 20th century and late mid 20th century can be connected. They have also been examined in the late 20th century, including the early 1980s, the late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s and in the early 21st century, including the early 2000s, late 2000s, and early 2010s.

The future including the near future, middle future, and far future can be connected.

Sociology

Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine events of the early 1900s, late 1900s, early 1910s, and late 1910s.

Institutions

Religion, government, economics, education, and families can be used to examine the early 20th century.

Religion

Particular traditions such as Abrahamic, Asiatic, secular, and pagan will be discussed. Religious organization can be connected. Religious practice can be considered. Religious beliefs can be examined.

Government

Particular governments including local, national, and international government can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations can be considered. Government structure including parties and interest groups, judicial systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forst of government will be useful. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be considered.

Economics

Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be connected. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacturing industries, building construction,social and medical services, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services are important. Economic activity including production, distribution, and consumption can be considered.

Education

Schools including primary education, secondary education, and higher education can be connected. Educational organization including course material, students, faculty, and administration can be connected. Cultural institutions including museums, libraries, and performance venues may be useful. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture, conceptual culture, and material culture can be used to examine the early 20th century.

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including holidays, disasters, gatherings, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including food-related, building-related, transportation-related, communications-related, industrial, and service occupations are important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interation customs, and institutional customs are important.

Conceptual

Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography are important. Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world is important.

Material culture

Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, toys, and medical technology can be connected. Communications techology including electronic communication, written communication, and graphic communication can be connected. Transportation technology including air transportation, water transportation, and land transportation can be connected. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including agricultural products, preserved and processed foods, and prepared foods are useful. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial technology including tools, fuels, chemical technology, machinery, utilities, and other artifacts is significant.

Anthropology

Particular groups

Particular groups can be connected.

Other groups that do some investigation of this period include:

World History Association

Human geography including European geography, African Geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography will be vital. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will be useful. Human ecology including the influence of the environment on peoples, relationships with other life, and the influence of people on the environment can be considered. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion may be useful. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be connected. Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, group types, and group behavior may be useful.

Personal studies

This will depend considerably on biography of individuals.

Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology can be connected. The human body including body systems, body functions, human life cycle, disease, and form and appearance can be connected.

Science

Biology, earth science, astronomy, chemistry, and physics can b applied to the early 20th century.

Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory can be connected.Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory can be connected. Astronomy including solar system astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, and cosmology can be connected. Chemistry including the examination of chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity theory, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.

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