Mention any two happenings of 20th century in support of calling it the age of extremes.
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Eric Hobsbawm, a historian, called the 20th century ‘The Age of Extremes’. Politically, the world saw shoots of democratic aspirations grow amidst the rise of Fascist domination which fostered ideologies of unquestioned power and hatred for other people. Literacy levels and average life expectancy grew immensely for all. New forms of art like movies emerged. Scientific knowledge rose to new heights unlocking the secrets of atom and life. Women, who constitute half the world’s population, got their right to vote in this period, starting with the West. Literally more than a hundred nations walked to independence and freedom across the world. This was also an age of great experimentation as people strove to build socialist societies based on the principles of equality and fraternity or alternatively a liberal democracy based on political liberty and capitalist economy. But the same period saw the “Great Depression” causing massive unemployment and economic breakdown and two World Wars in which millions died and the lives of many more millions were dislocated. Hence, the 20th century was a period of great expectations, experiments and dangerous developments.
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The time period from the World War I (1914) to fall of Soviet Union (1991) has been described as Age of Extremes by a historian Eric Hobsbawm in his book "The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century".
The two happenings of 20th century in support of calling it the age of extremes are as :
1. World War I, fallowed by Great Depression 1929 and later rise of fascist ideologies in Germany and Italy.
2. World War II which was fallowed by the Cold War.
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