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Since the early twentieth century, Mexicans have felt worried and threatened by American strength.
In 1999, during the New York celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I myself heard Shevardnadze assert that Georgia had given the twentieth century two historic figures: “One who erected the Iron Curtain [Joseph Stalin], and one who tore it down” – meaning himself.
In the twentieth century, Poland was the victim of two inhuman ideologies, fascism and Stalinism.
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.
In the twentieth century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict.
Moreover, the organization and methods of the Iraq insurgency, while not unique, differ from those seen in the late twentieth century.
The US was the world leader in high school and college graduation rates for much of the twentieth century.
Some blame Bismarck for Germany’s slide toward fascism in the twentieth century.
Hence, caste has not been an indicator of material deprivation, even during the early decades of the twentieth century.
This has clearly contributed to preventing any sign of a possible return to the totalitarian ways of the twentieth century.
He made known his position on the USSR’s disintegration in 2005, when he called it “a major geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century.”
And though voting rates in presidential elections declined from 62% to 50% in the latter half of the twentieth century, they stabilized in 2000, and rose to 58% in 2012.
Putin once famously observed that the Soviet Union’s collapse was the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.
America, with its vibrant democratic institutions, was the leading racist jurisdiction in the world in the early twentieth century.
America’s democratic institutions did not stand in the way of such policies in the early twentieth century.
The angry reaction – combined with the government’s diplomatic reprisals against those who use the word – has the perverse effect of stigmatizing present-day Turks as deniers of one of the great crimes of the twentieth century.
This progress is all the more important given the complacency that led to a complete standstill in research and development for new TB interventions toward the end of the twentieth century.
The technologies on which many of us depend today arose from a parallel convergence of discoveries in physics and engineering in the early twentieth century.
At the same time, just as the twentieth century’s convergence of physics and engineering transformed our lives, the accelerating convergence of biology and engineering is driving unprecedented discoveries that promise to create another platform for innovation, the rise of new industries, and economic growth.
Back in the twentieth century, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War impelled US policymakers to embrace liberal internationalism.
Through the early part of the twentieth century, capitalism was governed by a narrow vision of the public institutions needed to uphold it.
This “mixed-economy” model was the crowning achievement of the twentieth century.
One hopes that he is more successful than China’s first premier, Zhou Enlai, who in 1964 promised “four modernizations” by the end of the twentieth century.
Europe and the United States were the largest meat consumers in the twentieth century, with the average person eating 60-90 kilograms (132-198 pounds) annually – far more than is required to meet humans’ nutritional needs.
For starters, it has allowed international institutions to avoid acknowledging the shortcomings of the new development orthodoxy of the last two decades of the twentieth century, when Latin America lost over a decade, and Sub-Saharan Africa a quarter-century, of economic and social progress.
Indonesia’s Forgotten GenocideCANBERRA – October marked 50 years since the Indonesian military launched one of the twentieth century’s worst mass murders.
The shambolic performance of elected parliaments in Europe, especially in interwar Germany and Italy, had a great deal to do with the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in the first half of the twentieth century.
Indeed, most of the health gains over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were brought about by far-reaching economic, political, and social reforms.
In the early twentieth century, a congressional district’s rich landowners were likely to own the local banks as well, or to be related to, or friends with, bank owners.
We do not live in a “post-American world,” but we also no longer live in the “American era” of the late twentieth century.
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