Did people in the early 1900s feel like something major was going

>>2827788
They though it would be the golden age of humanity. Scientific progress, prosperity, etc.

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>>2827789
Really makes you think.

>>2827788
Every generation for the past 1800 years has believed it lives in the end times, and had religious leaders at the top regularly claiming as such.

I suppose, eventually, one of em will have to be right.

>>2827788
Some people believed that something terrible would happen if you let women vote.

>>2827788
Yes. Some famous writer dude said "Everyone saw disaster coming but nobody knew how to stop it"

>>2827798

>really fires up those neurons

>>2827788
they new a huge war was going to happen some time in the near future

Europeans definitely did. The huge clusterfuck of alliances between the European powers plus the rapid industrialization and military build up was bound to make people nervous, and it didn't help that Germany was pretty much spoiling for a fight with Russia going into the 1910s.

For Asia I'm not sure. The boxer rebellion happened right at the turn of the 20th century and pretty much led to the collapse of the last Chinese Imperial Dynasty in 1912, but as to whether anyone could have foreseen that or what it would snowball into, I have no idea.

Read "An Introduction to the History of Western Europe" (1902) by James Harvey Robinson and find out.

>>2827788
everyone was hoping for the golden age of memes and the democratization of rare pepes but wars and genocides came inbetween.

they thought was was an impossibility in this modern age

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>>2827788
Civilized peoples were quite ignorant I think.

>>2827798
>implying they were wrong

>>2830328
>Implying Pax Americana is better than the old world.

>>2827790
it turned out to be true.