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Immigration opponents often point to the precipitous drop in the share of Europe’s population that identifies as Christian – from 66.3% in the early twentieth century to 25.9% in 2010– which they blame partly on the combination of high immigration from Muslim-majority countries and declining birth rates among native Europeans.
The rights of the individual were submerged by the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society.
The Kurds have been making bids for statehood – and having them brutally suppressed – since the early twentieth century.
At the twentieth century’s start, only one person in ten lived in a town or city.
Here, the savings-bank movement in the United Kingdom and Europe in the nineteenth century, and the microfinance movement pioneered by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in the twentieth century, comes to mind.
When the end of ideology was celebrated – first in the 1950’s and then, more emphatically still, in the 1990’s – no one foresaw that religion, the bane of politics in the first half of the twentieth century, would return to that role with a vengeance.
This year, the peoples of Europe are marking the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe in two.
From its own experiences in the twentieth century, Europe knows what catastrophes can result when concessions are made to evil.
The history of the twentieth century is an object lesson in this.
Consider Germany, the “biggest debt transgressor of the twentieth century,” according to the economic historian Albrecht Ritschl.
When Russia marks the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union this Christmas, it will have much to celebrate.
Just as there was Renaissance man and, in the twentieth century, homo sovieticus, “democratic man” is a form of human being.
The history of the twentieth century and their longer-term rivalries have seen to that.
The European imperial powers of the twentieth century would periodically hold out the distant prospect of independence to their colonial subjects – but not yet, not before they were ready, not before their Western masters had educated them to take care of themselves responsibly.
Leave aside the fact that you can make an even stronger case against Godlessness – remember the atrocities of atheist totalitarians in the twentieth century – and consider the assault on those whose commitment to literal interpretations of religious texts means that they deny science and reason.
Gentlemen-scholars, who would reform and staff the Chinese army and civil service in the early decades of the twentieth century, went to study in Japan.
The worst economic crisis of the twentieth century was explained – and a way to correct it suggested – with a theory that does not rely on bubbles.
Yet that was the fate of at least 80 million men, women, and children in the twentieth century, including Armenians in Turkey, Jews in Europe, suspect classes in the Soviet Union and China, communists in Indonesia, non-communists in Cambodia, Bengalis in former East Pakistan, Asians in Uganda, Tutsis in Rwanda, and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia.
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, tsars knew no legal constraints, such as impeded the absolutism of West European sovereigns.
The Industrial Revolution turned steel and coal into strategic goods, and struggles over oil dominated much of the twentieth century, including during World War I, when the loss of Romanian petroleum contributed to the German collapse on the Western Front in 1918.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Christians made up roughly 20% of the Arab world.
But this dynamic is outdated, and Asia would suffer as much as the West from any attempt to emulate the British and American empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
China is a long way from posing the kind of challenge to American preponderance that the Kaiser’s Germany posed when it surpassed Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The twentieth century’s worst crisis, between 1929 and 1932, caused 70 million workers in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany to lose their jobs (with no unemployment benefits) in less than six months.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the most vulnerable producers were rural, small-scale farmers who could not compete with expanding food production elsewhere in the world.
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we have seen civil rights extended to racial and sexual minorities.
Indeed, throughout the twentieth century, animosity between Poland and Russia remained at fever pitch, manifested not only in politics but also culturally.
His tyranny rivaled the worst of the twentieth century.
In fact, in the twentieth century, US presidents who pursued transformational foreign policies were neither more effective nor more ethical.
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