Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
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First Placed Online: 18 October 1998
Last Updated: 25 March 2003
Broad Outline
The Basics
Links (if you don't find what you want on my site, try these.)
Detailed Table of Contents
The Basics:
How To Use This Atlas:
- Many of these maps are interactive. If you click on a place, you might zoom in and get more detail. Then again, you might not. Try it.
- Similarly, if you click on the legend to a map, you might get a more detailed explanation of the topic.
- Clicking on the arrows... ... will take you page by page through a specific subject, such as American History or Warfare.
- Clicking on the Contemporary Context button bar...... will zoom out to show what's happening in the world at this time in a specific field of human activity. The icons symbolize Cities, Government, War, International Relations, Living Conditions and Economics, respectively.
- Although this atlas is non-linear in overall design, its backbone is probably the series of maps illustrating national political systems, so this is probably the best place to start if you have no particular topic you're curious about.
- If you are curious about a particular topic, I don't have a search engine here, but you might want to use [CONTROL]-[F], and then type in (a) simple keyword(s), like soviet or world war.
Table of Contents:
- FAQ
- What's New
- Keeping the Turn of the Century in Perspective:
- Who Is the Most Important Person of the Twentieth Century?
- What Are the Most Overrated Events, People and Achievements of the Twentieth Century?
- My Selections, based on my incredible expertise on historical matters, and a fair dose of arrogance.
- Your Selections, based on a survey conducted in late 1998 and early 1999.
- My Selections, based on my incredible expertise on historical matters, and a fair dose of arrogance.
- When did the Century begin and when does it end?
- Who Is the Most Important Person of the Twentieth Century?
General Trends:
- Socio-Economic Trends:
- Timelines
- Systems of Government:
- Population:
- War:
- Art
- Religion
Specific Places and Events:
- Europe:
- America:
- Asia:
- Africa
- International Relations
- Age of Imperialism
- First World War:
- World Governments:
- Second World War:
- Dumping the Colonies
- The Cold War:
- Nuclear Proliferation
- Post Cold War
- Disasters:
- Nobel Prizes:
- Olympic Games:
Sources:
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