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*1945* – *present*
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*post ‘world war 2’ era*
(+ *pre ‘world war 3’*)
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*define ‘contemporary’ by ‘average life-span’*
(at any given moment?)
(the difficulties of calculating ‘average life-span with anything approaching ‘precision’)
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*80 YEARS*
(as of ‘2024’)
(approximate human lifespan’?)
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(until ‘we’ set a date for the ’emergence of the ‘next’ historical ‘era’)
(and then re-name the previous ‘era’ with a name that alludes to its ‘events’ in some ‘fundamental’ way)
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(ala ‘the gilded age’ / ‘the iron age’ / etc)
(can we call the ‘1945 – 2020’ 75-year timelime the ‘information age’?)
(has that already been done?)
(how many times?)
(how how did they differ?)
(decide what they are trying to ‘accomplish’ by picking the best ‘dates’ to begin + end customary historical ‘eras’?)
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*OUR YEARS ON ‘EARTH’*
(beginning *5 AUGUST 1984*)
(as long as your personal ‘history’ is still considered completely ‘contemporary’)
(“don’t we all?”)
(until we reach the ‘post 2020 age’ and decide to signify the emergence of a ‘new generation’)
(o, reather respond to societal changes related to the marginal person’s ‘coming of age’)
*’34 years’ + growing…*
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*’contemporary history’ is a sub-set of ‘modern history’ which describes the ‘historical period’ from approximately ‘1945’ to ‘the present’*
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(going on ’75 years’)
(beginning with ‘world war 2’…)
(ending with ‘world war 3’?)
(then the ‘post-WW3’ era will mark the beginning of a new ‘contemporary history’)
(“a new convenant”)
then what will historians call the previous ‘post world war 2’ period?)
(or more specifically, the ‘victorious historians’)
(to be countered (however ineffectively) by the ‘disgruntled’)
(until the ‘disgruntle masses’ reaches a ‘critical mass’ and begins the next ‘world war’)
(just like ‘germany’ in ‘world war 2’)
(after being defeated by ‘the united states’ in ‘world war 1’)
(and in the ‘internet age’, the ‘human race’ can be considered a single ‘collective historian’)
(‘aggregated via ‘wikipedia’)
(and current historians could try making a ‘name’ for themselves by proposing a new ‘starting date’ for ‘contemporary hisory’)
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“12 ‘POST 1945’ CONTENDERS” –>
#1 –>
(the ‘cold war’?)
(pick a significant date like ‘fall of berlin wall’)
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#2 –>
(the ‘kennedy assassination’?)
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#3 –>
(the ‘beatles’?)
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#4 –>
(9/11?)
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#5 –>
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#6 –>
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#7 –>
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#8 –>
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#9 –>
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#10 –>
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#11 –>
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#12 –>
*11 SEPTEMBER 2001*
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(and so on…)
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*the term “contemporary history” has been in use at least since the ‘early 1800s’*
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(“contemporary history” is politically dominated by the “cold war” (‘1945’ – ‘1991’) between the ‘united states’ and the ‘soviet union’ whose effects were felt across the world)
(in this geopolitical context, European colonial empires in Africa and Asia fell apart between 1945 and 1975)
(the confrontation, which was mainly fought through ‘proxy wars’ and through intervention in the internal politics of smaller nations, ultimately ended with the dissolution of the ‘Soviet Union’ and ‘Warsaw Pact’ in 1991, following the ‘Revolutions of 1989’)
(the latter stages and aftermath of the ‘Cold War’ paved the way for the democratisation of much of ‘Europe’, ‘Africa’, and ‘Latin America’)
(in the ‘Middle East’, the period after 1945 was dominated by conflict involving the new state of ‘Israel’ and the rise of petroleum politics, as well as the growth of Islamism after the 1980s)
(the period after 1945 saw the growth of the first ‘supranational’ organisations of government, such as the ‘United Nations’ and ‘European Union’)
(socially, western countries experienced the rise of ‘countercultures’ and the ‘sexual revolution’ between the 1960s and 1980s which transformed social relations and were epitomised by the ‘Protests of 1968’)
(‘living standards’ rose sharply across the developed world as a result of the post-war economic boom which also saw the emergence of major economies such as ‘Japan’ and ‘West Germany’)
(the culture of the ‘united states’ (especially ‘consumerism’) spread widely)
(by the 1960s, many ‘western countries’ had begun a process of ‘de-industrialization’)
(in their place, ‘globalization’ led to the emergence of ‘new industrial centers’, such as ‘japan’, ‘taiwan’, and later ‘china’, based on exporting ‘consumer goods’ to ‘developed countries’)
(the period after ‘1945’ was also transformative for the history of ‘science’)
(notable technological innovations include ‘spaceflight’, ‘nuclear technology’, ‘laser’ and ‘semiconductor’ technology, the development of ‘molecular biology’ and ‘genetics’, ‘particle physics’, and the ‘standard model’ of ‘quantum field theory’)
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*it also saw the creation of…*
the first ‘computers’,
the ‘internet’,
and the birth of the ‘information age’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈 ☜ *“THE LATE MODERN PERIOD”*
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*“THE FUTURE”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥