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Historians already try to make a '''survey of the twentieth century'''. One purpose of history is to see long periods as a whole or at least to discover some overall trends. In general there is agreement about the fact that the twentieth century was an age of extreme tensions and war, especially in Europe or through Europe.  The concrete views differ and there are several attempts to define the past century.

===The European civil war=== 

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===A turning point===

Others cite as a turning point the end of [[World War II]], dividing the century in half. The [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] in particular redefined the paramaters of warfare.

===Important phases (in Europe especially)===  
*[[1914]] [[World War I]], until 1918
*[[1917]] [[
RussianOctober Revolution|Lenin’s Bolshevist coup]] and [[Russian Civil War]], until 1922
*[[1919]] [[Versailles Treaty]]
*[[1920]] The [[Red Army]] in Poland
*[[1922]] [[March on Rome]],  [[Mussolini]]’s [[fascism|fascist]] coup
*[[1923]] French-Belgian occupation of the German  [[Ruhr]]
*[[1923]] Unsuccessful coup in Germany by [[Hitler]]
*[[1926]] Right-wing coup d’état in Portugal 
*[[1928]] Left-wing election victory in Germany
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==Reference==
*[[Eric Hobsbawm|Hobsbawm, Eric]] ''The Age Of Extremes : A History Of The World, 1914-1991'', New York : Pantheon Books, 1994. 
*[[Ernst Nolte|Nolte, Ernst]] ''Der europäische Bürgerkrieg 1917–1945: Nationalsozialismus und Bolschewismus'' Frankfurt : Proyläen, 1987. 

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