Short Twentieth Century

Created in analogy to brother era names felt to overlap specific time periods, the Short Twentieth Century is a term used by some historians to denote the period  1914–1991 (or perhaps a couple of years later, depending on when one dates the end of the Cold War), where World War I and the fall of the Soviet Union represented such significant changes in world history as to redefine the era.
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