The 20th century was overshadowed by a sequence of events that indicated significant changes in world history as to redefine the era as a whole: World War I and World War II, nationalism and decolonization, nuclear power and space exploration, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts; intergovernmental organizations and cultural institutionalization through growth in emerging transportation and communications technology; world population growth and poverty reduction, first realization of environmental deterioration, and the creation of the Digital Revolution. While the 20th century was dominated by wars it had clear progress in communication and medical technology that by the late 1980s allowed for genetic modification of life and immediate
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The Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union and was fought using proxy wars in which the two sides supported which is why it was called the Cold War. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. These two superpowers each possessed nuclear weapons capable of killing millions in a few seconds, making the situation extremely high in tension. Tensions reached a peak when the two backed a Korean War, where the U.S. supported South Korea and the Soviet Union supported North Korea. The Korean War was the first military action of the Cold War. The Korean War ultimately resulted in up to five million dead, wounded, or missing and up to half of them being civilian. It is said that the United States had used more bombs in Korea, which was 635,000 tons, and 32,557 tons of napalm, than in the entire Pacific theater during World War 2. In addition to all of this not one nation involved could consider themselves victors in the Korean War. The Cold War is responsible for about over 40 major conflicts ranging all across the eastern hemisphere and South America causing a great deal of
The Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union and was fought using proxy wars in which the two sides supported which is why it was called the Cold War. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. These two superpowers each possessed nuclear weapons capable of killing millions in a few seconds, making the situation extremely high in tension. Tensions reached a peak when the two backed a Korean War, where the U.S. supported South Korea and the Soviet Union supported North Korea. The Korean War was the first military action of the Cold War. The Korean War ultimately resulted in up to five million dead, wounded, or missing and up to half of them being civilian. It is said that the United States had used more bombs in Korea, which was 635,000 tons, and 32,557 tons of napalm, than in the entire Pacific theater during World War 2. In addition to all of this not one nation involved could consider themselves victors in the Korean War. The Cold War is responsible for about over 40 major conflicts ranging all across the eastern hemisphere and South America causing a great deal of