Most interesting century in human history

>>1207275
1848-1948

>>1207286
communism industrialization american civil war both world wars but ended right before the nuclear arms race

>>1207317
1870-1970 then maybe?

Includes second industrial revolution, german and Italian unification, the scramble for Africa, world war 1, world war 2, rise of communism, nuclear weapons, korean war+most Vietnam war, most of decolonisation, the space race and other big events too

>>1207406
Italian unification was in 1861

>>1207419
Nope 1871

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>>1207424
Pedantic. They had everything but rome by 1861.

>>1207275
2001 - 2101

>>1207406
what about 1891-1991 both world wars american industrialization and the collapse of the soviet union

>>1207286
>>1207317
>>1207406
>>1207419
>>1207424
I put 1848 because of this starting point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848
which pretty much created the modern European political thought

Then of course you have

USA:
>civil war (1860)
>Manifest Destiny (1870-1890)
>Industrial Revolution (1890-1910)
>Establishment as a world power (1910-1930s)
>Hollywood, radio, "celebrity" culture (1920s)
>Atomic weaponry

Europe:
>German unification
>Philosophy
>Victorian Era
>Imperialism
>Scientific Revolution (airplanes, electricity, trains, engines, rocketry, modern medicine, physics, chemistry, automobile, photography, etc)
>Workers rights
>Pax Britannic
>too much to name

>>1207447
I think going to 1970 is better because of a few reasons but on it's own decolonisation was extremely influential on the modern world

>>1207447
>Industrial Revolution (1890-1910)
pretty sure that started much earlier...

>>1207458
>decolonisation was extremely influential on the modern world
This. The decade after the Year of Africa decided the fate of several continents.

>>1207447
>>Manifest Destiny (1870-1890)
i thought Manifest Destiny was shit like the Mexican War

>>1207462
There were more than one, and America was late to it compared to Europe.

Still, it would honestly be better to describe that period as the Gilded Age.