2007-09-23 02:07:12 · 8 answers · asked by valay d 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
World War II
2007-09-23 02:12:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I would have to say it was World War One -- but it actually started some thirty to forty years prior with Germany's Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck. It was through his political wranglings in the 1860s and 1870s that set the stage. He made a statement that "Germany's interests lie in Germany." He wasn't interested so much in colonizing Africa, as were the super powers of the day. Instead, he formed alliances and signed a number of treaties that said if you are attacked, I will come to your aid. No one revised those treaties and so in 1914 when the Archduke Ferdinand and is wife Sophie were assassinated, it set the whole thing in motion, resulting in WW I.
Had WW I not happened, France's farmlands would not have been laid to waste. Lenin would not have travelled from England through France and Germany into Russia. The Czar would not have been overthrown and communism would not have taken over that country. Germany's economy would probably have flourished and the Weinmar Republic would never have taken "power" which set the stage for Adolf Hitler's rise to power and so WW II would not have happened as it did.
Without Hitler, no Nazi Germany and WW II. Without Lenin and Stalin there would have been no "Cold War." Without WW II and the years just prior, Joseph Kennedy would not have been ambassador to Nazi Germany and John Kennedy would not have served in the U.S. Navy where he became an iconic "Hero" that then set the stage for his political run which set the stage for such foibles as Eisenhower/Nixon's CIA overthrow of Iran, Kenney's Bay of Pigs Invasion and The Tonkin Gulf Resolution drawing us into Vietnam. Iran, Iraq, none of that would have happened. We'd not be there now.
Answer: Otto von Bismarck and ultimately, World War One.
2007-09-23 09:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to name just one.
But i guess the biggest impact would be the Atom bomb.
For the first time in history we were able to destroy all human life as we know it. That is a product if the 20th century.
Sure we have gotten some positive from it, such as power plants but overall the danger is as bad today as it was in the cold war with many smaller nations getting access to the bomb.
Next would be the computer age. that has definately changed the way we do and think.
Hope that helps/
2007-09-23 09:28:21 · answer #3 · answered by Legend Gates Shotokan Karate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to think of just one event because quite a few have impacted our lives in such a profound way. Here are the ones that come to my mind.....World war 2, 9/11, Vietnam. But I think the event that has impacted our lives the most would have to be Jim Crow, and it's expulsion from our society.
2007-09-23 09:28:39 · answer #4 · answered by Keith T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World war II, America became a super power, and by the end of the Cold War America became the worlds only super power!
2007-09-23 09:41:49 · answer #5 · answered by Speak freely 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know, world war 1 and 2?
2007-09-23 09:13:33 · answer #6 · answered by Eve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand. There hasn't been a day of peace since
2007-09-23 09:23:11 · answer #7 · answered by Roderick F 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The industrial revolution...without it we would still be handmaking everything, but global warming wouldn't be such a popular subject.
2007-09-23 09:17:31 · answer #8 · answered by rebwise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋