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Discussion - In your Opinion - What was the most important moment in the 20th century

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In your opinion and why. No single word answers

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Gosh, so much happened during that time. Um, I guess for me the most important moment would be the formation of the United Nations. From Wikipedia:
Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict.
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Now regardless of the organization's effectiveness, imo the idea of practically all nations coming together to do what is quoted - after decades of imperialism, war, and economic crises - tells me that there is the possibility of peace, and is admirable and inspiring. And I believe the formation of the UN was a huge and vital step that the world needed to take (and couldn't have been done at more crucial time).
 
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This is a tough question, there's a few good answers.

September 1st, 1939 - Hitler invades Poland.
September 3rd, 1939 - Britain and France declare war on Germany. WWI begins.

These two are a pair. WWII begins. No need to really go into detail as to why this is important.

December 7th, 1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States enters WWII. This changed the course of history.

August 6th, 1945 - The United States drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. As Kenneth Bainbridge said after the Trinity tests (the atomic tests) "Now we are all sons of bitches."

Showing the terrible power of the atomic bomb shaped the next seventy (and counting) years of global politics.
 
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1947 - John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, & William Shockley invented the transistor, which is a fundamental part of the modern world
 
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I would say Man on the Moon

Why? It brought the world together. The world was at one for something that pushed humankind to an unimaginable feat. It also paved the way for a boost in technology and a shift in the Cold War.

It was the biggest moment of peace in the World.
 
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8 November 1917 - the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia. I choose this because it preceded the formation of the Soviet Union, which would eclipse the cultural landscape of the 20th Century alongside the United States, and shaped the popular imagination of the century. 24 June 1948, the beginning of the Berlin Blockade, is also a good pick, as that was the first rumblings of the Cold War.

Supergirl said:
I would say Man on the Moon

Why? It brought the world together. The world was at one for something that pushed humankind to an unimaginable feat. It also paved the way for a boost in technology and a shift in the Cold War.

It was the biggest moment of peace in the World.
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It was also hugely unpopular in its time and almost exclusively a political move. I'd say the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis was a better example of peace in the Cold War.
 
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See it may have been political to do it, okay it was but when Man landed on Moon all that was gone. Bay of Pigs not so much because one has to remember that it was all about USA also taking away missiles that were placed in Turkey, so it was an eye for an eye rather than peace winning.
 
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As far as changing opinions of the masses goes, I'd say the Civil Rights movement was pretty darn important. I mean, obviously it didn't happen overnight and there is still work to be done, but this was the era where big changes were slowly coming. If I had to pinpoint it down to one moment, it would be MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, considered by many to be the pinnacle of the movement. Actually, the 1960's in general were a huge time for change, and probably the most important decade in the century.

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As far as changing opinions of the masses goes, I'd say the Civil Rights movement was pretty darn important. I mean, obviously it didn't happen overnight and there is still work to be done, but this was the era where big changes were slowly coming. If I had to pinpoint it down to one moment, it would be MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, considered by many to be the pinnacle of the movement. Actually, the 1960's in general were a huge time for change, and probably the most important decade in the century.

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While the 60s were a time of great social change and upheaval in various parts of the world, I'd argue against the American civil rights movement being a focal point of international 20th Century history, given the fact that its effects were largely limited to the United States. It's definitely a crucial period of American history, but not so much in the history of the world.
 
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Fair enough. That was just the first thing that came to my mind in terms of changing the views and societal norms of people, which I feel is the most important aspect of any historical happening. But yeah, it is pretty America-centric.
 
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In saying that I feel like it is a valid answer if you are from the United States. I mean yes it did not impact the whole world but it was still a very important moment in history. It did change a few cultural and social norms for the good and showed the bad especially if you look in depth around America at that time.
 
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28 June 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated by a revolutionary, this event caused the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to go to war with Serbia and then more countries go to war. While not the last war on the planet WW1 was a conflict which many dated tactics where used and many failed in the theaters of war (like trench warfare and still using cavalry) while it also was the beginning of powerful weapons (tanks,Mustard gas,combat airplanes etc.) that would change the course of how war is fought.
 
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The invention of the Internet. It's improved - and made worse in some aspects - the lives of everyone.
 
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The invention of the Internet. It's improved - and made worse in some aspects - the lives of everyone.
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Wouldn't one say that the impact was mainly felt in the 21st century?
 
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True but it was still created in the 20th century.
 
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Boshi234 said:
28 June 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated by a revolutionary, this event caused the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to go to war with Serbia and then more countries go to war. While not the last war on the planet WW1 was a conflict which many dated tactics where used and many failed in the theaters of war (like trench warfare and still using cavalry) while it also was the beginning of powerful weapons (tanks,Mustard gas,combat airplanes etc.) that would change the course of how war is fought.
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This x1000. Actually either this or Germany's invasion of Belgium as their first act in the war. If Germany had not invaded Belgium, then there is a chance that Britain would not have entered the war, which would have given Germany a much greater chance of winning.

The first world war changed basically everything about the western world. Before it happened, Europe was still strongly in the mindset of kingdoms and empires and romantic battles where the generals exchange swords at the end and some land is maybe ceded to the victor. World war one threw all of that mindset out the window, then went downstairs and stomped it into dust. The scale of the carnage that happened just in the opening months of the war was so far beyond anything that had occurred in history that it is just incomprehensible to think about from our point of reference. After the war, many major powers in Europe were broken up, and many monarchs lost influence. The Kaiser no longer held power, Austria broke up into several smaller states, the Ottoman Empire fell, the Russian Empire collapsed into the Soviet Union, etc. It also saw the emergence of the United States as a major power in the world (because it had been selling weapons to the Allies and did not suffer any attacks on its soil, a strategy which it would repeat during the second world war to emerge as a world superpower).

The changes that this war made to the world go way beyond the changes in battlefield tactics and machinery. The scale of the fighting was so large that this is the first time there was ever really a "home front," that is, the whole country is considered to be involved in the war effort, even the people who are not fighting in it.

Of course it is also worth noting that the second world war would not have happened if not for the first world war.
 
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