Principal periods of the contemporary Time
Industrial revolutions The industrial revolutions, which marked 18th and 19th centuries, is one moment hinge in the history of the Occident, it gave place to changes technical, economic and social important. The Industrial revolution breaks up, in addition, in several revolutions: the agricultural revolution, the urban revolution, the commercial revolution, the technical revolution and the social revolution.
Birth of the modern States
At the 19th century, one attends in all the industrialized countries the transformation of the company. The population moves towards the cities. The workmen live under difficult conditions, strikes often burst. The middle-class dominates the economic life, it holds the richnesses and the political power. Countries change and know economic prosperity: The Italian unit (1861). The creation of the German Empire (1871). Second Empire in France and the Commune (1871). The Mutsuhito emperor opens Japan with the western world (1867).
Colonization and decolonization
The colonial expansion of the European great powers aboutità a kind “of Europeanization” of the world. After having completed, during first half of the XIX E century, to subject India to its domination, Great Britain took possession of vast territories in Southeast Asia and in the Pacific. France, which reconstituted its colonial empire by conquering Algeria and Tunisia, then, after being itself seized the countries of the Western coast of Africa and the gulf of Guinea, turns to Madagascar and Indo-China. The decolonization operated after the Second world war generally took on the aspects of a confrontation between indigenous nationalisms and the white imperialisms. It borrowed several forms.
Two world wars
The 20th century is ravaged by two world wars. The Great War (1914-1918), then Nazism and the second world war in (1939-1945).
The news give (1945-1989)
After the second world war, a world dies out and another is on the point of emerging with a redistribution of the charts in a “play” where the superpuissances well quickly will try to organize, each one with its advantage, the news gives geostrategic. Admittedly all will not be done at once. It is well from 1945 that affirm themselves in all the fields - strategic, political, social, economic and scientific - fundamental changes.
End of the XXe century
End of the XX E century at the entry in the third millennium, the world will see proceeding, the American domination, the beginning of European construction, the growth of the continent of Asia, the crises of the Middle East, under development of the Latin America and Africa, the rise to power of the globalisation of the markets and the reactions of organizations antimondialists.