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%%Please keep this index concise and brief, and interesting. It's more or less an overview of the whole century in general. Anything else not mentioned here will be covered by each respective decade.
-> ''"This is the age of machinery,\\
A mechanical nightmare,\\
The wonderful world of technology,\\
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare,\\
This is the twentieth century,\\
But too much aggravation\\
It's the age of insanity,\\
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem."''
-->-- '''Music/TheKinks''', "20th Century Man"
The Twentieth Century: A Century that witnessed changes in technology, society, culture and attitudes in more ways and more circumstances than any other century before it. The historian Eric Hobsbawm who labelled it ''The Age of Extremes'' considers it "A Short 20th Century" (comprising 77 years between 1914-1991) that really began and ended with the rise and fall of the [=USSR=], while others argue that it began with UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ("The Seminal Tragedy") and more or less continued into the TurnOfTheMillennium until [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]].
So rapid, shocking, and sudden were the changes in governments, society, culture, science and technology for the century, that the world of the 1990s looked different from the world of the 1910s to the point of virtual unrecognizability. The idea that every decade had to have its own aesthetics was more or less invented in this century, where art and science melded together forming visual oeuvres chronicled through new mediums of photography, motion picture (so called "the art of the 20th century"), and television, and popular music which depended on radio, sound-recording equipment, portable media [[note]][=LPs=], records, cassettes and [=CDs=][[/note]], and music videos for their commercial viability.
It was the century that saw the greatest advances and gains in society, such as women's rights [[note]]with women entering in the workforce, and finding ways to marry/divorce/raise children on their own[[/note]]; widespread decolonization, the end of the 19th Century empires, and the rise of a global community of nations; anti-racism as a central pillar of acceptable civilization; the possibility for more people to travel the globe via commercial air transport; great permissiveness with sexuality expressed more freely by ''all'' classes than centuries before it; [[PrecisionFStrike profanity]] in serious literature such as Creator/JamesJoyce's ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}''; and towards the end of the century, the acceptance and debate of LGBT rights becoming a public movement. [[note]](beginning in UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany at the start of the century and flourishing in the Anglophone by the end of the century). [[/note]]
Yet despite this, the century was remembered for the two bloodiest world wars, for violent genocides, for brutal famines, for the use of chemical weapons, and later for city-destroying nuclear weapons; a huge dissonance among developed and undeveloped nations; a situation on overpopulation; [[GaiasLament great environmental crises]] and an awareness in pollution and climate change; and the growth and spread of political movements such as fascism, socialism, and democracy that overthrew the old systems, and created governments with varying results.
In a nutshell, with the greater entanglement, flourishing of information, and greater complexities of life and society as a whole the message of the 20th Century was that "the world got better and nobody is happy about it".
Note that while decades technically end in 10 years, there would be a cultural bleed in between decades. Culturally, the century started with either the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar or the death of UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria and ended with [[TurnOfTheMillennium Y2K]] or 9/11. Or alternatively, [[BookEnds it started and ended]] with [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne the affair]] [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars around the Balkans]].
!!The Twentieth Century is divided into decades with each one having its own cultural identity (though many do overlap with others), which are:
[[index]]
* TheEdwardianEra, Also known as the "La Belle Époque"[[note]]Not only in France but across the world because it recieved a lot of NostalgiaFilter after the world wars[[/note]]: (1898[[note]]The Spanish American War[[/note]]/1901[[note]]Death of Queen Victoria and the start of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency[[/note]] - June 1914[[note]]Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand[[/note]], though on cultural terms it extended until 1919[[note]]Signing of the Treaty of Versailles and passage of the Volstead Act[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King Edward VII]] on the Throne, rich white people, rich economy, high endeavours, ragtime, silent movies, ArtNouveau, [[GorgeousPeriodDress elaborate dresses]] with [[OfCorsetsSexy S-bend corsets]], Gibson Girls, suffragettes, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein the Theory of Relativity]], [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freudian psychology]], [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China under new management]], [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Russia]] and [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan]] [[UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar at war]], [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Mexico in flames]], the Congo-gate scandals, weird and wacky [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines flying machines]], "horseless carriages", motion pictures and other inventions, and the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. Once used as a [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic setting]] until as late as the 1960s.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: (Summer 1914 - 1919) The war that was supposed to "end all wars", until its sequel came up. Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot, trench warfare, the [[UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire fall]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic of]] [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany various]] [[UsefulNotes/TsarTsarAutocrats empires]], [[BalkanizeMe map redrawings]], rise of ethnic nationalism, independence movements, UsefulNotes/RedOctober, UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu[[note]]The global influenza outbreak that actually killed more people than the war that overshadowed it. The "Spanish Flu" part is a misnomer, as its origin was (and still is) unknown (originating either in France, England or ''Kansas''), but it firstly affected the belligerent countries, which played it down for morale purposes, while Spain, a neutral country, sent the earliest news about contagions, creating the false impression that it originated there.[[/note]], unresolved conflicts and loose ends, accompanied by the rise of modern and postmodern art movements [[note]]formalism, surrealism, dadaism, futurism[[/note]], [[StiffUpperLip English war poetry]], BeigeProse and Creator/CharlieChaplin.
* TheRoaringTwenties[[note]]Also known as the "Jazz Age" by artists, or the "Golden Twenties" in Europe[[/note]]: (1917[[note]]Release of the first jazz records[[/note]]/late 1918[[note]]End of the Great War and the disintegration of the old European empires[[/note]] - October 1929[[note]]The Wall Street Crash[[/note]], although the decade culturally ended between 1933/35[[note]]The FDR Administration, the New Deal, Repeal of Prohibition, the Motion Picture Production Code, the end of the "Golden Age of Gangsters" and the rise of swing music[[/note]]) Bootleg + [[TheFlapper Flappers]] + {{Jazz}} x Booming Economy = [[PretentiousPronunciation par-tayz]]. Also with gangsters, the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films]] and [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkies]], radio, UsefulNotes/CocoChanel, stylistic and futuristic Cubism, Bauhaus and ''[[ArtDeco Arts]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Decoratifs]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar]] [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities culture]] [[note]]Berlin cabaret, GermanExpressionism, Creator/BertoltBrecht and Music/KurtWeill, Creator/SergeiEisenstein[[/note]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Soviet Montage]], gin tubs, gangsters, and "[[JiveTurkey 23 Skidooin' bees knees seeing a man about a dog]]",
* TheGreatDepression[[note]]Also known as the "Flirty Thirties" or the "Dirty Thirties"[[/note]]: (1929/31[[note]]While the Crash occurred in October '29, the Depression would not get in full swing until two years later[[/note]] - fall 1940/December 1941[[note]]Beginning of the draft, FDR's third term, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. finally entering war[[/note]]) Parties were over with a crash and the worst [[WarWasBeginning has begun]]. More gangsters, the dust bowl, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the New Deal]], the rise of American labour movents. ThoseWackyNazis, UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin's]] purges aside, expect for [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate musical sequences]] with Creator/{{Busby|Berkeley}}, and ScrewballComedy [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood sound]][[{{Musical}} films]] with Creator/{{Ginger|Rogers}} and Creator/{{Fred|Astaire}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra raunchy pre-code flicks]], gangsters like Creator/JamesCagney, comedians like [[Film/TheThreeStooges The Stooges]] and [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers The Marxes]], and bombshells like Creator/JeanHarlow in a [[SexyBacklessOutfit sexy satin slip]].
* TheForties[[note]]Also known as the "Fightin' Forties" or "Flying Forties"[[/note]]: (September 1939[[note]]German invasion of Poland[[/note]] - 1949/50[[note]]End of the Chinese Civil War and start of the Korean War[[/note]]) A turbulent time, a mark of transition. All the while it's [[DanceSensation swing]][[{{Jazz}} time]] for soldiers with {{Glamorous Wartime Singer}}s in Technicolor and [[{{Jazz}} bebop]] for [[HardBoiledDetective badass private eyes]] with FemmeFatale stunners in [[FilmNoir noir]].
** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: (Autumn 1939 - Autumn 1945) Even worse than the [[TheGreatDepression crash]] and its [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI prequel]], you have [[OldSchoolDogfighting aerial dogfights]], Pearl Harbor, {{Cool Tank}}s, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki atomic bombs]], the dawn of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, violent post-war independence movements, Creator/CarmenMiranda and [[{{Fanservice}} pin-up girls]]. All in all, the bloodiest decade in the history of mankind.
* TheFifties[[note]]Also known as the "Fabulous Fifties" or the "Frivoulous Fifties"[[/note]]: (1945[[note]]End of the War[[/note]]/47[[note]]U.S.-U.S.S.R. tensions emerge, the beginning of the HUAC's "witch hunt", and fashion designer Christian Dior's introduction of the "New Look" designs.[[/note]] - 1961[[note]]Beginning of the JFK Presidency, the Bay of Pigs invasion and erection of the Berlin Wall[[/note]]/November 1963[[note]]Assassination of John F. Kennedy[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hot War]] was over, UsefulNotes/ColdWar has begun, Germany and Korea [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany split]] [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany in]] [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar two]], [[NukeEm nuclear]] and [[DirtyCommunists communist]]/[[CapitalismIsBad capitalist]] fear, the [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev Khrushchev Thaw]], UsefulNotes/TheBabyBoom at its height, [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic]] musical extravaganzas showcased through widescreen at your nearest DriveInTheater, [[{{Housewife}} housewives]] with aprons and elaborate dresses, [[StandardFiftiesFather your standard father]], wholesome family moments, Baby Boomers, RockAndRoll, [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]] with [[FiftiesHair suave pompadours]], [[TeensAreMonsters rebellious teenagers]], television, [[UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem a turbulent Hollywood]] with Creator/MarilynMonroe [[MarilynManeuver on the subway vents]], a wave of [[Creator/AkiraKurosawa foreign]] [[Creator/IngmarBergman avant-garde]] [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave directors]], and SCIENCE! A rather affectionate, if not parodied, nostalgic setting.
* TheSixties[[note]]Also known as the "Swingin' Sixties"[[/note]]: (1957[[note]]Beginning of the "space race"[[/note]]/59[[note]]Castro's takeover of Cuba[[/note]] - 1973/75[[note]]End of the Vietnam War, Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon[[/note]], although you could say it ended as late as 1976[[note]]Election of Jimmy Carter[[/note]]) UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace, [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy The Kennedys]], The UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, The [[VelvetRevolution Prague Spring]], The [[MinidressOfPower Miniskirts]], Music/TheBeatles, UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, The [[NewAgeRetroHippie Hippies]], The UsefulNotes/NewHollywood, Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly, The [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Space Odyssey]], Film/TheGraduate, The [[PsychedelicRock Psychedelia]], The Free Love Sex, The Mindbending Drugs, [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll The Rockin' Roll, man]], The Wierdness, The Wonders,... [[OverlyLongGag The]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Articles]]...
* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because [[TemptingFate 'twill never go out of fashion]]!!! Also... [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[NavelDeepNeckline very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, HeavyMetal, economic malaise and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
* TheEighties[[note]]Also known as the "Elegant Eighties" or the "Excessive Eighties"[[/note]]: (1977[[note]]Premiere of ''Star Wars'' (''A New Hope'') and the rise of the movie blockbuster[[/note]]/79[[note]]Rise of Margaret Thatcher, Iran Hostage Crisis, Disco Demotion Night[[/note]] - 1993[[note]]Beginning of the Clinton Presidency[[/note]]/95[[note]]Oklahoma City bombings and the first big U.S. government shutdown[[/note]]) [[BiggerIsBetter Everything's BIG]]!!! [[EightiesHair BIG HAIR]], [[ShouldersOfDoom BIG POWER SUITS WITH BIG SHOULDERS]], BIG ECONOMY, [[Film/WallStreet BIG DEBAUCHERY]], [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan BIG]] [[UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev POLITICS]], [[UsefulNotes/TheBlockbusterAgeOfHollywood BIG MOVIES]], BIG [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PUBLIC]] [[DrugsAreBad SERVICE]] [[TooSmartForStrangers ANNOUNCEMENTS]], [[{{Cyberpunk}} BIG TECHNOLOGY]], BIG BRICK CELLPHONES, [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} BIG]] [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld JAPANESE]] [[{{Anime}} IMPORTS]], [[NostalgiaFilter BIG RETRO CRAZE]], [[Creator/{{MTV}} BIG]] [[NewWaveMusic NEW]] [[HipHop MUSIC]], [[Music/StephenSondheim BIG]] [[Creator/AndrewLloydWebber MUSICALS]], BIG CELEBRITIES, [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger BIG BODYBUILDERS]], BIG {{RUNNING GAG}}S, '''BIG'''!!! Totally a [[TotallyRadical de-fin-IT-elly radically BIG]] nostalgic setting. And [[RunningGag BIG MØØSE...]] [[note]]We apologize again for that. Those responsible for sacking the index writers have been sacked.[[/note]]
* TheNineties[[note]]Also known as the "Nihilistic Nineties"[[/note]]: (1989[[note]]Fall of the Berlin Wall as well as for most Warsaw Pact regimes[[/note]]/91[[note]]Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union[[/note]] - either January 2000 with the arrival of the new millennium, [[WhamEpisode September 2001]] with 9/11 and UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, or even as late as 2006-''[[TurnOfTheMillennium 2008]]'' with the economic crisis) end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Weast]] UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, Cool Britannia, the rise of the EU, UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, UsefulNotes/BillClinton, TheInternet, AlternativeRock with the [[Music/{{Nirvana}} fragrance of teen spirit]], fresh HipHop "[[Music/VanillaIce Yo, Vanilla Ice Ice Baby]]", HouseMusic, teenage angst, upbeat parties and concerts, flannel shirts, loose sagging pants, [[MustHaveCaffeine coffeeshops]], Creator/JenniferAniston's [[NinetiesHair signature haircut]], anthropomorphic {{mascot|WithAttitude}}s, [[Series/{{Friends}} The One With]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} The Yellow Mouse]], {{Boy Band}}s, the Music/SpiceGirls, Music/BritneySpears, the Lambada, the Macarena, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick TV shows and games you grew on this decade and are now a victim of Rule34 internet memes and parodies.]] [[note]]Mynd you, Rüle 34 picthers of møøse Kan be pretti nasti...[[/note]]
!!People
* AuthorsOfThe20thCentury
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-> ''"This is the age of machinery,\\
A mechanical nightmare,\\
The wonderful world of technology,\\
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare,\\
This is the twentieth century,\\
But too much aggravation\\
It's the age of insanity,\\
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem."''
-->-- '''Music/TheKinks''', "20th Century Man"
The Twentieth Century: A Century that witnessed changes in technology, society, culture and attitudes in more ways and more circumstances than any other century before it. The historian Eric Hobsbawm who labelled it ''The Age of Extremes'' considers it "A Short 20th Century" (comprising 77 years between 1914-1991) that really began and ended with the rise and fall of the [=USSR=], while others argue that it began with UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ("The Seminal Tragedy") and more or less continued into the TurnOfTheMillennium until [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]].
So rapid, shocking, and sudden were the changes in governments, society, culture, science and technology for the century, that the world of the 1990s looked different from the world of the 1910s to the point of virtual unrecognizability. The idea that every decade had to have its own aesthetics was more or less invented in this century, where art and science melded together forming visual oeuvres chronicled through new mediums of photography, motion picture (so called "the art of the 20th century"), and television, and popular music which depended on radio, sound-recording equipment, portable media [[note]][=LPs=], records, cassettes and [=CDs=][[/note]], and music videos for their commercial viability.
It was the century that saw the greatest advances and gains in society, such as women's rights [[note]]with women entering in the workforce, and finding ways to marry/divorce/raise children on their own[[/note]]; widespread decolonization, the end of the 19th Century empires, and the rise of a global community of nations; anti-racism as a central pillar of acceptable civilization; the possibility for more people to travel the globe via commercial air transport; great permissiveness with sexuality expressed more freely by ''all'' classes than centuries before it; [[PrecisionFStrike profanity]] in serious literature such as Creator/JamesJoyce's ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}''; and towards the end of the century, the acceptance and debate of LGBT rights becoming a public movement. [[note]](beginning in UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany at the start of the century and flourishing in the Anglophone by the end of the century). [[/note]]
Yet despite this, the century was remembered for the two bloodiest world wars, for violent genocides, for brutal famines, for the use of chemical weapons, and later for city-destroying nuclear weapons; a huge dissonance among developed and undeveloped nations; a situation on overpopulation; [[GaiasLament great environmental crises]] and an awareness in pollution and climate change; and the growth and spread of political movements such as fascism, socialism, and democracy that overthrew the old systems, and created governments with varying results.
In a nutshell, with the greater entanglement, flourishing of information, and greater complexities of life and society as a whole the message of the 20th Century was that "the world got better and nobody is happy about it".
Note that while decades technically end in 10 years, there would be a cultural bleed in between decades. Culturally, the century started with either the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar or the death of UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria and ended with [[TurnOfTheMillennium Y2K]] or 9/11. Or alternatively, [[BookEnds it started and ended]] with [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne the affair]] [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars around the Balkans]].
!!The Twentieth Century is divided into decades with each one having its own cultural identity (though many do overlap with others), which are:
[[index]]
* TheEdwardianEra, Also known as the "La Belle Époque"[[note]]Not only in France but across the world because it recieved a lot of NostalgiaFilter after the world wars[[/note]]: (1898[[note]]The Spanish American War[[/note]]/1901[[note]]Death of Queen Victoria and the start of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency[[/note]] - June 1914[[note]]Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand[[/note]], though on cultural terms it extended until 1919[[note]]Signing of the Treaty of Versailles and passage of the Volstead Act[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King Edward VII]] on the Throne, rich white people, rich economy, high endeavours, ragtime, silent movies, ArtNouveau, [[GorgeousPeriodDress elaborate dresses]] with [[OfCorsetsSexy S-bend corsets]], Gibson Girls, suffragettes, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein the Theory of Relativity]], [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freudian psychology]], [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China under new management]], [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Russia]] and [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan]] [[UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar at war]], [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Mexico in flames]], the Congo-gate scandals, weird and wacky [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines flying machines]], "horseless carriages", motion pictures and other inventions, and the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. Once used as a [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic setting]] until as late as the 1960s.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: (Summer 1914 - 1919) The war that was supposed to "end all wars", until its sequel came up. Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot, trench warfare, the [[UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire fall]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic of]] [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany various]] [[UsefulNotes/TsarTsarAutocrats empires]], [[BalkanizeMe map redrawings]], rise of ethnic nationalism, independence movements, UsefulNotes/RedOctober, UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu[[note]]The global influenza outbreak that actually killed more people than the war that overshadowed it. The "Spanish Flu" part is a misnomer, as its origin was (and still is) unknown (originating either in France, England or ''Kansas''), but it firstly affected the belligerent countries, which played it down for morale purposes, while Spain, a neutral country, sent the earliest news about contagions, creating the false impression that it originated there.[[/note]], unresolved conflicts and loose ends, accompanied by the rise of modern and postmodern art movements [[note]]formalism, surrealism, dadaism, futurism[[/note]], [[StiffUpperLip English war poetry]], BeigeProse and Creator/CharlieChaplin.
* TheRoaringTwenties[[note]]Also known as the "Jazz Age" by artists, or the "Golden Twenties" in Europe[[/note]]: (1917[[note]]Release of the first jazz records[[/note]]/late 1918[[note]]End of the Great War and the disintegration of the old European empires[[/note]] - October 1929[[note]]The Wall Street Crash[[/note]], although the decade culturally ended between 1933/35[[note]]The FDR Administration, the New Deal, Repeal of Prohibition, the Motion Picture Production Code, the end of the "Golden Age of Gangsters" and the rise of swing music[[/note]]) Bootleg + [[TheFlapper Flappers]] + {{Jazz}} x Booming Economy = [[PretentiousPronunciation par-tayz]]. Also with gangsters, the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films]] and [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkies]], radio, UsefulNotes/CocoChanel, stylistic and futuristic Cubism, Bauhaus and ''[[ArtDeco Arts]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Decoratifs]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar]] [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities culture]] [[note]]Berlin cabaret, GermanExpressionism, Creator/BertoltBrecht and Music/KurtWeill, Creator/SergeiEisenstein[[/note]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Soviet Montage]], gin tubs, gangsters, and "[[JiveTurkey 23 Skidooin' bees knees seeing a man about a dog]]",
* TheGreatDepression[[note]]Also known as the "Flirty Thirties" or the "Dirty Thirties"[[/note]]: (1929/31[[note]]While the Crash occurred in October '29, the Depression would not get in full swing until two years later[[/note]] - fall 1940/December 1941[[note]]Beginning of the draft, FDR's third term, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. finally entering war[[/note]]) Parties were over with a crash and the worst [[WarWasBeginning has begun]]. More gangsters, the dust bowl, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the New Deal]], the rise of American labour movents. ThoseWackyNazis, UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin's]] purges aside, expect for [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate musical sequences]] with Creator/{{Busby|Berkeley}}, and ScrewballComedy [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood sound]][[{{Musical}} films]] with Creator/{{Ginger|Rogers}} and Creator/{{Fred|Astaire}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra raunchy pre-code flicks]], gangsters like Creator/JamesCagney, comedians like [[Film/TheThreeStooges The Stooges]] and [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers The Marxes]], and bombshells like Creator/JeanHarlow in a [[SexyBacklessOutfit sexy satin slip]].
* TheForties[[note]]Also known as the "Fightin' Forties" or "Flying Forties"[[/note]]: (September 1939[[note]]German invasion of Poland[[/note]] - 1949/50[[note]]End of the Chinese Civil War and start of the Korean War[[/note]]) A turbulent time, a mark of transition. All the while it's [[DanceSensation swing]][[{{Jazz}} time]] for soldiers with {{Glamorous Wartime Singer}}s in Technicolor and [[{{Jazz}} bebop]] for [[HardBoiledDetective badass private eyes]] with FemmeFatale stunners in [[FilmNoir noir]].
** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: (Autumn 1939 - Autumn 1945) Even worse than the [[TheGreatDepression crash]] and its [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI prequel]], you have [[OldSchoolDogfighting aerial dogfights]], Pearl Harbor, {{Cool Tank}}s, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki atomic bombs]], the dawn of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, violent post-war independence movements, Creator/CarmenMiranda and [[{{Fanservice}} pin-up girls]]. All in all, the bloodiest decade in the history of mankind.
* TheFifties[[note]]Also known as the "Fabulous Fifties" or the "Frivoulous Fifties"[[/note]]: (1945[[note]]End of the War[[/note]]/47[[note]]U.S.-U.S.S.R. tensions emerge, the beginning of the HUAC's "witch hunt", and fashion designer Christian Dior's introduction of the "New Look" designs.[[/note]] - 1961[[note]]Beginning of the JFK Presidency, the Bay of Pigs invasion and erection of the Berlin Wall[[/note]]/November 1963[[note]]Assassination of John F. Kennedy[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hot War]] was over, UsefulNotes/ColdWar has begun, Germany and Korea [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany split]] [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany in]] [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar two]], [[NukeEm nuclear]] and [[DirtyCommunists communist]]/[[CapitalismIsBad capitalist]] fear, the [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev Khrushchev Thaw]], UsefulNotes/TheBabyBoom at its height, [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic]] musical extravaganzas showcased through widescreen at your nearest DriveInTheater, [[{{Housewife}} housewives]] with aprons and elaborate dresses, [[StandardFiftiesFather your standard father]], wholesome family moments, Baby Boomers, RockAndRoll, [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]] with [[FiftiesHair suave pompadours]], [[TeensAreMonsters rebellious teenagers]], television, [[UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem a turbulent Hollywood]] with Creator/MarilynMonroe [[MarilynManeuver on the subway vents]], a wave of [[Creator/AkiraKurosawa foreign]] [[Creator/IngmarBergman avant-garde]] [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave directors]], and SCIENCE! A rather affectionate, if not parodied, nostalgic setting.
* TheSixties[[note]]Also known as the "Swingin' Sixties"[[/note]]: (1957[[note]]Beginning of the "space race"[[/note]]/59[[note]]Castro's takeover of Cuba[[/note]] - 1973/75[[note]]End of the Vietnam War, Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon[[/note]], although you could say it ended as late as 1976[[note]]Election of Jimmy Carter[[/note]]) UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace, [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy The Kennedys]], The UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, The [[VelvetRevolution Prague Spring]], The [[MinidressOfPower Miniskirts]], Music/TheBeatles, UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, The [[NewAgeRetroHippie Hippies]], The UsefulNotes/NewHollywood, Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly, The [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Space Odyssey]], Film/TheGraduate, The [[PsychedelicRock Psychedelia]], The Free Love Sex, The Mindbending Drugs, [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll The Rockin' Roll, man]], The Wierdness, The Wonders,... [[OverlyLongGag The]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Articles]]...
* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because [[TemptingFate 'twill never go out of fashion]]!!! Also... [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[NavelDeepNeckline very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, HeavyMetal, economic malaise and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
* TheEighties[[note]]Also known as the "Elegant Eighties" or the "Excessive Eighties"[[/note]]: (1977[[note]]Premiere of ''Star Wars'' (''A New Hope'') and the rise of the movie blockbuster[[/note]]/79[[note]]Rise of Margaret Thatcher, Iran Hostage Crisis, Disco Demotion Night[[/note]] - 1993[[note]]Beginning of the Clinton Presidency[[/note]]/95[[note]]Oklahoma City bombings and the first big U.S. government shutdown[[/note]]) [[BiggerIsBetter Everything's BIG]]!!! [[EightiesHair BIG HAIR]], [[ShouldersOfDoom BIG POWER SUITS WITH BIG SHOULDERS]], BIG ECONOMY, [[Film/WallStreet BIG DEBAUCHERY]], [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan BIG]] [[UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev POLITICS]], [[UsefulNotes/TheBlockbusterAgeOfHollywood BIG MOVIES]], BIG [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PUBLIC]] [[DrugsAreBad SERVICE]] [[TooSmartForStrangers ANNOUNCEMENTS]], [[{{Cyberpunk}} BIG TECHNOLOGY]], BIG BRICK CELLPHONES, [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} BIG]] [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld JAPANESE]] [[{{Anime}} IMPORTS]], [[NostalgiaFilter BIG RETRO CRAZE]], [[Creator/{{MTV}} BIG]] [[NewWaveMusic NEW]] [[HipHop MUSIC]], [[Music/StephenSondheim BIG]] [[Creator/AndrewLloydWebber MUSICALS]], BIG CELEBRITIES, [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger BIG BODYBUILDERS]], BIG {{RUNNING GAG}}S, '''BIG'''!!! Totally a [[TotallyRadical de-fin-IT-elly radically BIG]] nostalgic setting. And [[RunningGag BIG MØØSE...]] [[note]]We apologize again for that. Those responsible for sacking the index writers have been sacked.[[/note]]
* TheNineties[[note]]Also known as the "Nihilistic Nineties"[[/note]]: (1989[[note]]Fall of the Berlin Wall as well as for most Warsaw Pact regimes[[/note]]/91[[note]]Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union[[/note]] - either January 2000 with the arrival of the new millennium, [[WhamEpisode September 2001]] with 9/11 and UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, or even as late as 2006-''[[TurnOfTheMillennium 2008]]'' with the economic crisis) end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Weast]] UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, Cool Britannia, the rise of the EU, UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, UsefulNotes/BillClinton, TheInternet, AlternativeRock with the [[Music/{{Nirvana}} fragrance of teen spirit]], fresh HipHop "[[Music/VanillaIce Yo, Vanilla Ice Ice Baby]]", HouseMusic, teenage angst, upbeat parties and concerts, flannel shirts, loose sagging pants, [[MustHaveCaffeine coffeeshops]], Creator/JenniferAniston's [[NinetiesHair signature haircut]], anthropomorphic {{mascot|WithAttitude}}s, [[Series/{{Friends}} The One With]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} The Yellow Mouse]], {{Boy Band}}s, the Music/SpiceGirls, Music/BritneySpears, the Lambada, the Macarena, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick TV shows and games you grew on this decade and are now a victim of Rule34 internet memes and parodies.]] [[note]]Mynd you, Rüle 34 picthers of møøse Kan be pretti nasti...[[/note]]
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* AuthorsOfThe20thCentury
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-> ''"This is the age of machinery,\\
A mechanical nightmare,\\
The wonderful world of technology,\\
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare,\\
This is the twentieth century,\\
But too much aggravation\\
It's the age of insanity,\\
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem."''
-->-- '''Music/TheKinks''', "20th Century Man"
The Twentieth Century: A Century that witnessed changes in technology, society, culture and attitudes in more ways and more circumstances than any other century before it. The historian Eric Hobsbawm who labelled it ''The Age of Extremes'' considers it "A Short 20th Century" (comprising 77 years between 1914-1991) that really began and ended with the rise and fall of the [=USSR=], while others argue that it began with UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ("The Seminal Tragedy") and more or less continued into the TurnOfTheMillennium until [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]].
So rapid, shocking, and sudden were the changes in governments, society, culture, science and technology for the century, that the world of the 1990s looked different from the world of the 1910s to the point of virtual unrecognizability. The idea that every decade had to have its own aesthetics was more or less invented in this century, where art and science melded together forming visual oeuvres chronicled through new mediums of photography, motion picture (so called "the art of the 20th century"), and television, and popular music which depended on radio, sound-recording equipment, portable media [[note]][=LPs=], records, cassettes and [=CDs=][[/note]], and music videos for their commercial viability.
It was the century that saw the greatest advances and gains in society, such as women's rights [[note]]with women entering in the workforce, and finding ways to marry/divorce/raise children on their own[[/note]]; widespread decolonization, the end of the 19th Century empires, and the rise of a global community of nations; anti-racism as a central pillar of acceptable civilization; the possibility for more people to travel the globe via commercial air transport; great permissiveness with sexuality expressed more freely by ''all'' classes than centuries before it; [[PrecisionFStrike profanity]] in serious literature such as Creator/JamesJoyce's ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}''; and towards the end of the century, the acceptance and debate of LGBT rights becoming a public movement. [[note]](beginning in UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany at the start of the century and flourishing in the Anglophone by the end of the century). [[/note]]
Yet despite this, the century was remembered for the two bloodiest world wars, for violent genocides, for brutal famines, for the use of chemical weapons, and later for city-destroying nuclear weapons; a huge dissonance among developed and undeveloped nations; a situation on overpopulation; [[GaiasLament great environmental crises]] and an awareness in pollution and climate change; and the growth and spread of political movements such as fascism, socialism, and democracy that overthrew the old systems, and created governments with varying results.
In a nutshell, with the greater entanglement, flourishing of information, and greater complexities of life and society as a whole the message of the 20th Century was that "the world got better and nobody is happy about it".
Note that while decades technically end in 10 years, there would be a cultural bleed in between decades. Culturally, the century started with either the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar or the death of UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria and ended with [[TurnOfTheMillennium Y2K]] or 9/11. Or alternatively, [[BookEnds it started and ended]] with [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne the affair]] [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars around the Balkans]].
!!The Twentieth Century is divided into decades with each one having its own cultural identity (though many do overlap with others), which are:
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* TheEdwardianEra, Also known as the "La Belle Époque"[[note]]Not only in France but across the world because it recieved a lot of NostalgiaFilter after the world wars[[/note]]: (1898[[note]]The Spanish American War[[/note]]/1901[[note]]Death of Queen Victoria and the start of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency[[/note]] - June 1914[[note]]Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand[[/note]], though on cultural terms it extended until 1919[[note]]Signing of the Treaty of Versailles and passage of the Volstead Act[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King Edward VII]] on the Throne, rich white people, rich economy, high endeavours, ragtime, silent movies, ArtNouveau, [[GorgeousPeriodDress elaborate dresses]] with [[OfCorsetsSexy S-bend corsets]], Gibson Girls, suffragettes, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein the Theory of Relativity]], [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freudian psychology]], [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China under new management]], [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Russia]] and [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan]] [[UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar at war]], [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Mexico in flames]], the Congo-gate scandals, weird and wacky [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines flying machines]], "horseless carriages", motion pictures and other inventions, and the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. Once used as a [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic setting]] until as late as the 1960s.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: (Summer 1914 - 1919) The war that was supposed to "end all wars", until its sequel came up. Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot, trench warfare, the [[UsefulNotes/OttomanEmpire fall]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic of]] [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany various]] [[UsefulNotes/TsarTsarAutocrats empires]], [[BalkanizeMe map redrawings]], rise of ethnic nationalism, independence movements, UsefulNotes/RedOctober, UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu[[note]]The global influenza outbreak that actually killed more people than the war that overshadowed it. The "Spanish Flu" part is a misnomer, as its origin was (and still is) unknown (originating either in France, England or ''Kansas''), but it firstly affected the belligerent countries, which played it down for morale purposes, while Spain, a neutral country, sent the earliest news about contagions, creating the false impression that it originated there.[[/note]], unresolved conflicts and loose ends, accompanied by the rise of modern and postmodern art movements [[note]]formalism, surrealism, dadaism, futurism[[/note]], [[StiffUpperLip English war poetry]], BeigeProse and Creator/CharlieChaplin.
* TheRoaringTwenties[[note]]Also known as the "Jazz Age" by artists, or the "Golden Twenties" in Europe[[/note]]: (1917[[note]]Release of the first jazz records[[/note]]/late 1918[[note]]End of the Great War and the disintegration of the old European empires[[/note]] - October 1929[[note]]The Wall Street Crash[[/note]], although the decade culturally ended between 1933/35[[note]]The FDR Administration, the New Deal, Repeal of Prohibition, the Motion Picture Production Code, the end of the "Golden Age of Gangsters" and the rise of swing music[[/note]]) Bootleg + [[TheFlapper Flappers]] + {{Jazz}} x Booming Economy = [[PretentiousPronunciation par-tayz]]. Also with gangsters, the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films]] and [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkies]], radio, UsefulNotes/CocoChanel, stylistic and futuristic Cubism, Bauhaus and ''[[ArtDeco Arts]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Decoratifs]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar]] [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities culture]] [[note]]Berlin cabaret, GermanExpressionism, Creator/BertoltBrecht and Music/KurtWeill, Creator/SergeiEisenstein[[/note]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Soviet Montage]], gin tubs, gangsters, and "[[JiveTurkey 23 Skidooin' bees knees seeing a man about a dog]]",
* TheGreatDepression[[note]]Also known as the "Flirty Thirties" or the "Dirty Thirties"[[/note]]: (1929/31[[note]]While the Crash occurred in October '29, the Depression would not get in full swing until two years later[[/note]] - fall 1940/December 1941[[note]]Beginning of the draft, FDR's third term, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. finally entering war[[/note]]) Parties were over with a crash and the worst [[WarWasBeginning has begun]]. More gangsters, the dust bowl, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the New Deal]], the rise of American labour movents. ThoseWackyNazis, UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin's]] purges aside, expect for [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate musical sequences]] with Creator/{{Busby|Berkeley}}, and ScrewballComedy [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood sound]][[{{Musical}} films]] with Creator/{{Ginger|Rogers}} and Creator/{{Fred|Astaire}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra raunchy pre-code flicks]], gangsters like Creator/JamesCagney, comedians like [[Film/TheThreeStooges The Stooges]] and [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers The Marxes]], and bombshells like Creator/JeanHarlow in a [[SexyBacklessOutfit sexy satin slip]].
* TheForties[[note]]Also known as the "Fightin' Forties" or "Flying Forties"[[/note]]: (September 1939[[note]]German invasion of Poland[[/note]] - 1949/50[[note]]End of the Chinese Civil War and start of the Korean War[[/note]]) A turbulent time, a mark of transition. All the while it's [[DanceSensation swing]][[{{Jazz}} time]] for soldiers with {{Glamorous Wartime Singer}}s in Technicolor and [[{{Jazz}} bebop]] for [[HardBoiledDetective badass private eyes]] with FemmeFatale stunners in [[FilmNoir noir]].
** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: (Autumn 1939 - Autumn 1945) Even worse than the [[TheGreatDepression crash]] and its [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI prequel]], you have [[OldSchoolDogfighting aerial dogfights]], Pearl Harbor, {{Cool Tank}}s, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki atomic bombs]], the dawn of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, violent post-war independence movements, Creator/CarmenMiranda and [[{{Fanservice}} pin-up girls]]. All in all, the bloodiest decade in the history of mankind.
* TheFifties[[note]]Also known as the "Fabulous Fifties" or the "Frivoulous Fifties"[[/note]]: (1945[[note]]End of the War[[/note]]/47[[note]]U.S.-U.S.S.R. tensions emerge, the beginning of the HUAC's "witch hunt", and fashion designer Christian Dior's introduction of the "New Look" designs.[[/note]] - 1961[[note]]Beginning of the JFK Presidency, the Bay of Pigs invasion and erection of the Berlin Wall[[/note]]/November 1963[[note]]Assassination of John F. Kennedy[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hot War]] was over, UsefulNotes/ColdWar has begun, Germany and Korea [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany split]] [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany in]] [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar two]], [[NukeEm nuclear]] and [[DirtyCommunists communist]]/[[CapitalismIsBad capitalist]] fear, the [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev Khrushchev Thaw]], UsefulNotes/TheBabyBoom at its height, [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic]] musical extravaganzas showcased through widescreen at your nearest DriveInTheater, [[{{Housewife}} housewives]] with aprons and elaborate dresses, [[StandardFiftiesFather your standard father]], wholesome family moments, Baby Boomers, RockAndRoll, [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]] with [[FiftiesHair suave pompadours]], [[TeensAreMonsters rebellious teenagers]], television, [[UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem a turbulent Hollywood]] with Creator/MarilynMonroe [[MarilynManeuver on the subway vents]], a wave of [[Creator/AkiraKurosawa foreign]] [[Creator/IngmarBergman avant-garde]] [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave directors]], and SCIENCE! A rather affectionate, if not parodied, nostalgic setting.
* TheSixties[[note]]Also known as the "Swingin' Sixties"[[/note]]: (1957[[note]]Beginning of the "space race"[[/note]]/59[[note]]Castro's takeover of Cuba[[/note]] - 1973/75[[note]]End of the Vietnam War, Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon[[/note]], although you could say it ended as late as 1976[[note]]Election of Jimmy Carter[[/note]]) UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace, [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy The Kennedys]], The UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, The [[VelvetRevolution Prague Spring]], The [[MinidressOfPower Miniskirts]], Music/TheBeatles, UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, The [[NewAgeRetroHippie Hippies]], The UsefulNotes/NewHollywood, Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly, The [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Space Odyssey]], Film/TheGraduate, The [[PsychedelicRock Psychedelia]], The Free Love Sex, The Mindbending Drugs, [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll The Rockin' Roll, man]], The Wierdness, The Wonders,... [[OverlyLongGag The]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Articles]]...
* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because [[TemptingFate 'twill never go out of fashion]]!!! Also... [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[NavelDeepNeckline very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, HeavyMetal, economic malaise and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
* TheEighties[[note]]Also known as the "Elegant Eighties" or the "Excessive Eighties"[[/note]]: (1977[[note]]Premiere of ''Star Wars'' (''A New Hope'') and the rise of the movie blockbuster[[/note]]/79[[note]]Rise of Margaret Thatcher, Iran Hostage Crisis, Disco Demotion Night[[/note]] - 1993[[note]]Beginning of the Clinton Presidency[[/note]]/95[[note]]Oklahoma City bombings and the first big U.S. government shutdown[[/note]]) [[BiggerIsBetter Everything's BIG]]!!! [[EightiesHair BIG HAIR]], [[ShouldersOfDoom BIG POWER SUITS WITH BIG SHOULDERS]], BIG ECONOMY, [[Film/WallStreet BIG DEBAUCHERY]], [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan BIG]] [[UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev POLITICS]], [[UsefulNotes/TheBlockbusterAgeOfHollywood BIG MOVIES]], BIG [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PUBLIC]] [[DrugsAreBad SERVICE]] [[TooSmartForStrangers ANNOUNCEMENTS]], [[{{Cyberpunk}} BIG TECHNOLOGY]], BIG BRICK CELLPHONES, [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} BIG]] [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld JAPANESE]] [[{{Anime}} IMPORTS]], [[NostalgiaFilter BIG RETRO CRAZE]], [[Creator/{{MTV}} BIG]] [[NewWaveMusic NEW]] [[HipHop MUSIC]], [[Music/StephenSondheim BIG]] [[Creator/AndrewLloydWebber MUSICALS]], BIG CELEBRITIES, [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger BIG BODYBUILDERS]], BIG {{RUNNING GAG}}S, '''BIG'''!!! Totally a [[TotallyRadical de-fin-IT-elly radically BIG]] nostalgic setting. And [[RunningGag BIG MØØSE...]] [[note]]We apologize again for that. Those responsible for sacking the index writers have been sacked.[[/note]]
* TheNineties[[note]]Also known as the "Nihilistic Nineties"[[/note]]: (1989[[note]]Fall of the Berlin Wall as well as for most Warsaw Pact regimes[[/note]]/91[[note]]Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union[[/note]] - either January 2000 with the arrival of the new millennium, [[WhamEpisode September 2001]] with 9/11 and UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, or even as late as 2006-''[[TurnOfTheMillennium 2008]]'' with the economic crisis) end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Weast]] UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, Cool Britannia, the rise of the EU, UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, UsefulNotes/BillClinton, TheInternet, AlternativeRock with the [[Music/{{Nirvana}} fragrance of teen spirit]], fresh HipHop "[[Music/VanillaIce Yo, Vanilla Ice Ice Baby]]", HouseMusic, teenage angst, upbeat parties and concerts, flannel shirts, loose sagging pants, [[MustHaveCaffeine coffeeshops]], Creator/JenniferAniston's [[NinetiesHair signature haircut]], anthropomorphic {{mascot|WithAttitude}}s, [[Series/{{Friends}} The One With]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} The Yellow Mouse]], {{Boy Band}}s, the Music/SpiceGirls, Music/BritneySpears, the Lambada, the Macarena, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick TV shows and games you grew on this decade and are now a victim of Rule34 internet memes and parodies.]] [[note]]Mynd you, Rüle 34 picthers of møøse Kan be pretti nasti...[[/note]]
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* AuthorsOfThe20thCentury
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* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because [[TemptingFate 'twill never go out of fashion]]!!! Also... [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[AbsoluteCleavage [[NavelDeepNeckline very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, HeavyMetal, economic malaise and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
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* TheFifties[[note]]Also known as the "Fabulous Fifties" or the "Frivoulous Fifties"[[/note]]: (1945[[note]]End of the War[[/note]]/47[[note]]U.S.-U.S.S.R. tensions emerge, the beginning of the HUAC's "witch hunt", and fashion designer Christian Dior's introduction of the "New Look" designs.[[/note]] - 1961[[note]]Beginning of the JFK Presidency, the Bay of Pigs invasion and erection of the Berlin Wall[[/note]]/November 1963[[note]]Assassination of John F. Kennedy[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hot War]] was over, UsefulNotes/ColdWar has begun, Germany and Korea [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany split]] [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany in]] [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar two]], [[NukeEm nuclear]] and [[DirtyCommunists communist]]/[[CapitalismIsBad capitalist]] fear, the [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev Khrushchev Thaw]], [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic]] musical extravaganzas showcased through widescreen at your nearest DriveInTheater, [[{{Housewife}} housewives]] with aprons and elaborate dresses, [[StandardFiftiesFather your standard father]], wholesome family moments, Baby Boomers, RockAndRoll, [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]] with [[FiftiesHair suave pompadours]], [[TeensAreMonsters rebellious teenagers]], television, [[UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem a turbulent Hollywood]] with Creator/MarilynMonroe [[MarilynManeuver on the subway vents]], a wave of [[Creator/AkiraKurosawa foreign]] [[Creator/IngmarBergman avant-garde]] [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave directors]], and SCIENCE! A rather affectionate, if not parodied, nostalgic setting.
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** UsefulNotes/TheBabyBoom, which began in the latter half of the previous decade, reached its highest point during that decade.
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* TheFifties[[note]]Also known as the "Fabulous Fifties" or the "Frivoulous Fifties"[[/note]]: (1945[[note]]End of the War[[/note]]/47[[note]]U.S.-U.S.S.R. tensions emerge, the beginning of the HUAC's "witch hunt", and fashion designer Christian Dior's introduction of the "New Look" designs.[[/note]] - 1961[[note]]Beginning of the JFK Presidency, the Bay of Pigs invasion and erection of the Berlin Wall[[/note]]/November 1963[[note]]Assassination of John F. Kennedy[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hot War]] was over, UsefulNotes/ColdWar has begun, Germany and Korea [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany split]] [[UsefulNotes/EastGermany in]] [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar two]], [[NukeEm nuclear]] and [[DirtyCommunists communist]]/[[CapitalismIsBad capitalist]] fear, the [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev Khrushchev Thaw]], UsefulNotes/TheBabyBoom at its height, [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic]] musical extravaganzas showcased through widescreen at your nearest DriveInTheater, [[{{Housewife}} housewives]] with aprons and elaborate dresses, [[StandardFiftiesFather your standard father]], wholesome family moments, Baby Boomers, RockAndRoll, [[GreaserDelinquents greasers]] with [[FiftiesHair suave pompadours]], [[TeensAreMonsters rebellious teenagers]], television, [[UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem a turbulent Hollywood]] with Creator/MarilynMonroe [[MarilynManeuver on the subway vents]], a wave of [[Creator/AkiraKurosawa foreign]] [[Creator/IngmarBergman avant-garde]] [[UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave directors]], and SCIENCE! A rather affectionate, if not parodied, nostalgic setting.
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* TheEdwardianEra, Also known as the "La Belle Époque"[[note]]Not only in France but across the world because it recieved a lot of NostalgiaFilter after the world wars[[/note]]: (1898[[note]]The Spanish American War[[/note]]/1901[[note]]Death of Queen Victoria and the start of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency[[/note]] - June 1914[[note]]Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand[[/note]], though on cultural terms it extended until 1919[[note]]Signing of the Treaty of Versailles and passage of the Volstead Act[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King Edward VII]] on the Throne, rich white people, rich economy, high endeavours, ragtime, silent movies, ArtNouveau, [[GorgeousPeriodDress elaborate dresses]] with [[OfCorsetsSexy S-bend corsets]], Gibson Girls, suffragettes, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein the Theory of Relativity]], [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freudian psychology]] [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China under new management]], [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Russia]] and [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan]] [[UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar at war]], [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Mexico in flames]], the Congo-gate scandals, weird and wacky [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines flying machines]], "horseless carriages", motion pictures and other inventions, and the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. Once used as a [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic setting]] until as late as the 1960s.
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* TheEdwardianEra, Also known as the "La Belle Époque"[[note]]Not only in France but across the world because it recieved a lot of NostalgiaFilter after the world wars[[/note]]: (1898[[note]]The Spanish American War[[/note]]/1901[[note]]Death of Queen Victoria and the start of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency[[/note]] - June 1914[[note]]Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand[[/note]], though on cultural terms it extended until 1919[[note]]Signing of the Treaty of Versailles and passage of the Volstead Act[[/note]]) [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor King Edward VII]] on the Throne, rich white people, rich economy, high endeavours, ragtime, silent movies, ArtNouveau, [[GorgeousPeriodDress elaborate dresses]] with [[OfCorsetsSexy S-bend corsets]], Gibson Girls, suffragettes, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein the Theory of Relativity]], [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freudian psychology]] psychology]], [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors China under new management]], [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Russia]] and [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Japan]] [[UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar at war]], [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Mexico in flames]], the Congo-gate scandals, weird and wacky [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines flying machines]], "horseless carriages", motion pictures and other inventions, and the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic. Once used as a [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic setting]] until as late as the 1960s.
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Yet despite this, the century was remembered by the two bloodiest world wars, by violent genocides, by brutal famines, the use of chemical weapons, and later city-destroying nuclear weapons; a huge dissonance among developed and undeveloped nations; a situation on overpopulation; [[GaiasLament great environmental crises]] and an awareness in pollution and climate change; and the growth and spread of political movements such as fascism, socialism, and democracy that overthrew the old systems, and created governments with varying results.
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Yet despite this, the century was remembered by for the two bloodiest world wars, by for violent genocides, by for brutal famines, for the use of chemical weapons, and later for city-destroying nuclear weapons; a huge dissonance among developed and undeveloped nations; a situation on overpopulation; [[GaiasLament great environmental crises]] and an awareness in pollution and climate change; and the growth and spread of political movements such as fascism, socialism, and democracy that overthrew the old systems, and created governments with varying results.
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So rapid, shocking, and sudden were the changes in governments, society, culture, science and technology for the century, that world of the 1990s looked different from the 1910s to the point of virtual unrecognizability. The idea that every decade had to have its own aesthetics was more or less invented in this century, where art and science melded together forming visual oeuvres chronicled through new mediums of photography, motion picture (so called "the art of the 20th century"), and television, and popular music which depended on radio, sound-recording equipment, portable media [[note]][=LPs=], records, cassettes and [=CDs=][[/note]], and music videos for their commercial viability.
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So rapid, shocking, and sudden were the changes in governments, society, culture, science and technology for the century, that the world of the 1990s looked different from the world of the 1910s to the point of virtual unrecognizability. The idea that every decade had to have its own aesthetics was more or less invented in this century, where art and science melded together forming visual oeuvres chronicled through new mediums of photography, motion picture (so called "the art of the 20th century"), and television, and popular music which depended on radio, sound-recording equipment, portable media [[note]][=LPs=], records, cassettes and [=CDs=][[/note]], and music videos for their commercial viability.
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* TheRoaringTwenties[[note]]Also known as the "Jazz Age" by artists, or the "Golden Twenties" in Europe[[/note]]: (1917[[note]]Release of the first jazz records[[/note]]/late 1918[[note]]End of the Great War and the disintegration of the old European empires[[/note]] - October 1929[[note]]The Wall Street Crash[[/note]], although the decade culturally ended between 1933/35[[note]]The FDR Administration, the New Deal, Repeal of Prohibition, the Motion Picture Production Code, the end of the "Golden Age of Gangsters" and the rise of swing music[[/note]]) Bootleg + [[TheFlapper Flappers]] + {{Jazz}} x Booming Economy = [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay par-tayz]]. Also with gangsters, the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films]] and [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkies]], radio, UsefulNotes/CocoChanel, stylistic and futuristic Cubism, Bauhaus and ''[[ArtDeco Arts]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Decoratifs]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar]] [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities culture]] [[note]]Berlin cabaret, GermanExpressionism, Creator/BertoltBrecht and Music/KurtWeill, Creator/SergeiEisenstein[[/note]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Soviet Montage]], gin tubs, gangsters, and "[[JiveTurkey 23 Skidooin' bees knees seeing a man about a dog]]",
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* TheRoaringTwenties[[note]]Also known as the "Jazz Age" by artists, or the "Golden Twenties" in Europe[[/note]]: (1917[[note]]Release of the first jazz records[[/note]]/late 1918[[note]]End of the Great War and the disintegration of the old European empires[[/note]] - October 1929[[note]]The Wall Street Crash[[/note]], although the decade culturally ended between 1933/35[[note]]The FDR Administration, the New Deal, Repeal of Prohibition, the Motion Picture Production Code, the end of the "Golden Age of Gangsters" and the rise of swing music[[/note]]) Bootleg + [[TheFlapper Flappers]] + {{Jazz}} x Booming Economy = [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay [[PretentiousPronunciation par-tayz]]. Also with gangsters, the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films]] and [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkies]], radio, UsefulNotes/CocoChanel, stylistic and futuristic Cubism, Bauhaus and ''[[ArtDeco Arts]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Decoratifs]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar]] [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities culture]] [[note]]Berlin cabaret, GermanExpressionism, Creator/BertoltBrecht and Music/KurtWeill, Creator/SergeiEisenstein[[/note]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Soviet Montage]], gin tubs, gangsters, and "[[JiveTurkey 23 Skidooin' bees knees seeing a man about a dog]]",
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* TheNineties[[note]]Also known as the "Nihilistic Nineties"[[/note]]: (1989[[note]]Fall of the Berlin Wall as well as for most Warsaw Pact regimes[[/note]]/91[[note]]Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union[[/note]] - either January 2000 with the arrival of the new millennium, [[WhamEpisode September 2001]] with 9/11 and UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, or even as late as 2006-''[[TurnOfTheMillennium 2008]]'' with the economic crisis) TheGreatPoliticsMessUp, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Weast]] UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, Cool Britannia, the rise of the EU, UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, UsefulNotes/BillClinton, TheInternet, AlternativeRock with the [[Music/{{Nirvana}} fragrance of teen spirit]], fresh HipHop "[[Music/VanillaIce Yo, Vanilla Ice Ice Baby]]", HouseMusic, teenage angst, upbeat parties and concerts, flannel shirts, loose sagging pants, [[MustHaveCaffeine coffeeshops]], Creator/JenniferAniston's [[NinetiesHair signature haircut]], anthropomorphic {{mascot|WithAttitude}}s, [[Series/{{Friends}} The One With]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} The Yellow Mouse]], {{Boy Band}}s, the Music/SpiceGirls, Music/BritneySpears, the Lambada, the Macarena, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick TV shows and games you grew on this decade and are now a victim of Rule34 internet memes and parodies.]] [[note]]Mynd you, Rüle 34 picthers of møøse Kan be pretti nasti...[[/note]]
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* TheNineties[[note]]Also known as the "Nihilistic Nineties"[[/note]]: (1989[[note]]Fall of the Berlin Wall as well as for most Warsaw Pact regimes[[/note]]/91[[note]]Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union[[/note]] - either January 2000 with the arrival of the new millennium, [[WhamEpisode September 2001]] with 9/11 and UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, or even as late as 2006-''[[TurnOfTheMillennium 2008]]'' with the economic crisis) TheGreatPoliticsMessUp, end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Weast]] UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia, Cool Britannia, the rise of the EU, UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, UsefulNotes/BillClinton, TheInternet, AlternativeRock with the [[Music/{{Nirvana}} fragrance of teen spirit]], fresh HipHop "[[Music/VanillaIce Yo, Vanilla Ice Ice Baby]]", HouseMusic, teenage angst, upbeat parties and concerts, flannel shirts, loose sagging pants, [[MustHaveCaffeine coffeeshops]], Creator/JenniferAniston's [[NinetiesHair signature haircut]], anthropomorphic {{mascot|WithAttitude}}s, [[Series/{{Friends}} The One With]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} The Yellow Mouse]], {{Boy Band}}s, the Music/SpiceGirls, Music/BritneySpears, the Lambada, the Macarena, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick TV shows and games you grew on this decade and are now a victim of Rule34 internet memes and parodies.]] [[note]]Mynd you, Rüle 34 picthers of møøse Kan be pretti nasti...[[/note]]
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''You know what? Forget it.'' Off to the Twenty First Century!!! Where there'll be [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], and {{food pills}}, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers holographic møøse]], and...
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''You know what? Forget it.'' Off to the Twenty First Century!!! Where there'll be [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], and {{food pills}}, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers holographic møøse]], møøse, and...
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* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because [[TemptingFate 'twill never go out of fashion]]!!! Also... [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[AbsoluteCleavage very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, {{heavy metal}}, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers economic malaise]] and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
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* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because [[TemptingFate 'twill never go out of fashion]]!!! Also... [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[AbsoluteCleavage very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, {{heavy metal}}, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers HeavyMetal, economic malaise]] malaise and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
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The Twentieth Century: A Century that witnessed changes in technology, society, culture and attitudes in more ways and more circumstances than any other century before it. The historian Eric Hobsbawm who labelled it ''The Age of Extremes'' considers it "A Short 20th Century" (comprising 77 years between 1914-1991) that really began and ended with the rise and fall of the [=USSR=], while others argue that it began with UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ("The Seminal Tragedy") and more or less continued into the TurnOfTheMillennium until 9/11.
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The Twentieth Century: A Century that witnessed changes in technology, society, culture and attitudes in more ways and more circumstances than any other century before it. The historian Eric Hobsbawm who labelled it ''The Age of Extremes'' considers it "A Short 20th Century" (comprising 77 years between 1914-1991) that really began and ended with the rise and fall of the [=USSR=], while others argue that it began with UsefulNotes/WorldWarI ("The Seminal Tragedy") and more or less continued into the TurnOfTheMillennium until 9/11.
[[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]].
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* TheRoaringTwenties[[note]]Also known as the "Jazz Age" by artists, or the "Golden Twenties" in Europe[[/note]]: (1917[[note]]Release of the first jazz records[[/note]]/November 1918[[note]]End of the Great War and the disintegration of the old European empires[[/note]] - October 1929[[note]]The Wall Street Crash[[/note]], although the decade culturally ended between 1933/35[[note]]The FDR Administration, the New Deal, Repeal of Prohibition, the Motion Picture Production Code, the end of the "Golden Age of Gangsters" and the rise of swing music[[/note]]) Bootleg + [[TheFlapper Flappers]] + {{Jazz}} x Booming Economy = [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay par-tayz]]. Also with gangsters, the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films]] and [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkies]], radio, UsefulNotes/CocoChanel, stylistic and futuristic Cubism, Bauhaus and ''[[ArtDeco Arts]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Decoratifs]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar]] [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities culture]] [[note]]Berlin cabaret, GermanExpressionism, Creator/BertoltBrecht and Music/KurtWeill, Creator/SergeiEisenstein[[/note]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Soviet Montage]], gin tubs, gangsters, and "[[JiveTurkey 23 Skidooin' bees knees seeing a man about a dog]]",
* TheGreatDepression[[note]]Also known as the "Flirty Thirties" or the "Dirty Thirties"[[/note]]: (1929/31[[note]]While the Crash occurred in October '29, the Depression would not get in full swing until two years later[[/note]] - December 1941[[note]]Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. finally entering war[[/note]]) Parties were over with a crash and the worst [[WarWasBeginning has begun]]. More gangsters, the dust bowl, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the New Deal]], the rise of American labour movents. ThoseWackyNazis, UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin's]] purges aside, expect for [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate musical sequences]] with Creator/{{Busby|Berkeley}}, and ScrewballComedy [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood sound]][[{{Musical}} films]] with Creator/{{Ginger|Rogers}} and Creator/{{Fred|Astaire}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra raunchy pre-code flicks]], gangsters like Creator/JamesCagney, comedians like [[Film/TheThreeStooges The Stooges]] and [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers The Marxes]], and bombshells like Creator/JeanHarlow in a [[SexyBacklessOutfit sexy satin slip]].
* TheGreatDepression[[note]]Also known as the "Flirty Thirties" or the "Dirty Thirties"[[/note]]: (1929/31[[note]]While the Crash occurred in October '29, the Depression would not get in full swing until two years later[[/note]] - December 1941[[note]]Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. finally entering war[[/note]]) Parties were over with a crash and the worst [[WarWasBeginning has begun]]. More gangsters, the dust bowl, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the New Deal]], the rise of American labour movents. ThoseWackyNazis, UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin's]] purges aside, expect for [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate musical sequences]] with Creator/{{Busby|Berkeley}}, and ScrewballComedy [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood sound]][[{{Musical}} films]] with Creator/{{Ginger|Rogers}} and Creator/{{Fred|Astaire}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra raunchy pre-code flicks]], gangsters like Creator/JamesCagney, comedians like [[Film/TheThreeStooges The Stooges]] and [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers The Marxes]], and bombshells like Creator/JeanHarlow in a [[SexyBacklessOutfit sexy satin slip]].
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* TheRoaringTwenties[[note]]Also known as the "Jazz Age" by artists, or the "Golden Twenties" in Europe[[/note]]: (1917[[note]]Release of the first jazz records[[/note]]/November records[[/note]]/late 1918[[note]]End of the Great War and the disintegration of the old European empires[[/note]] - October 1929[[note]]The Wall Street Crash[[/note]], although the decade culturally ended between 1933/35[[note]]The FDR Administration, the New Deal, Repeal of Prohibition, the Motion Picture Production Code, the end of the "Golden Age of Gangsters" and the rise of swing music[[/note]]) Bootleg + [[TheFlapper Flappers]] + {{Jazz}} x Booming Economy = [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay par-tayz]]. Also with gangsters, the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films]] and [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkies]], radio, UsefulNotes/CocoChanel, stylistic and futuristic Cubism, Bauhaus and ''[[ArtDeco Arts]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Decoratifs]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar]] [[UsefulNotes/GermanPeculiarities culture]] [[note]]Berlin cabaret, GermanExpressionism, Creator/BertoltBrecht and Music/KurtWeill, Creator/SergeiEisenstein[[/note]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Soviet Montage]], gin tubs, gangsters, and "[[JiveTurkey 23 Skidooin' bees knees seeing a man about a dog]]",
* TheGreatDepression[[note]]Also known as the "Flirty Thirties" or the "Dirty Thirties"[[/note]]: (1929/31[[note]]While the Crash occurred in October '29, the Depression would not get in full swing until two years later[[/note]] -December 1941[[note]]Japanese fall 1940/December 1941[[note]]Beginning of the draft, FDR's third term, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. finally entering war[[/note]]) Parties were over with a crash and the worst [[WarWasBeginning has begun]]. More gangsters, the dust bowl, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the New Deal]], the rise of American labour movents. ThoseWackyNazis, UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin's]] purges aside, expect for [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate musical sequences]] with Creator/{{Busby|Berkeley}}, and ScrewballComedy [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood sound]][[{{Musical}} films]] with Creator/{{Ginger|Rogers}} and Creator/{{Fred|Astaire}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra raunchy pre-code flicks]], gangsters like Creator/JamesCagney, comedians like [[Film/TheThreeStooges The Stooges]] and [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers The Marxes]], and bombshells like Creator/JeanHarlow in a [[SexyBacklessOutfit sexy satin slip]].
* TheGreatDepression[[note]]Also known as the "Flirty Thirties" or the "Dirty Thirties"[[/note]]: (1929/31[[note]]While the Crash occurred in October '29, the Depression would not get in full swing until two years later[[/note]] -
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* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because it never dies!!! Also [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[AbsoluteCleavage very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, {{heavy metal}}, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers economic malaise]] and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
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* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because it [[TemptingFate 'twill never dies!!! Also go out of fashion]]!!! Also... [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[AbsoluteCleavage very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, {{heavy metal}}, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers economic malaise]] and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
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* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because it never [[DeaderThanDisco dies]]!!! Also [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[AbsoluteCleavage very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, {{heavy metal}}, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers economic malaise]] and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
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* TheSeventies[[note]]Also known as the "Saucy Seventies" or the "Sordid Seventies"[[/note]]: (1968/69[[note]]The Vietnam War reaches fever pitch, the Nixon administration begins, the Apollo 11 landing and Woodstock[[/note]] - 1981/82[[note]]Beginning of the Reagan era, MTV begins transmissions and Michael Jackson debuts ''Thriller''[[/note]]) [[GratuitousDiscoSequence Disco, disco and more disco]], dance because it never [[DeaderThanDisco dies]]!!! dies!!! Also [[SeventiesHair big sideburns]], afros, [[PornStache hot mustaches and beards]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} blockbuster]] [[Franchise/StarWars movies]], [[Creator/BruceLee kung fu]] [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting fighting]], [[RunningGag disco]], polyester, {{glam rock}}, [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons roleplaying]], the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]], oil crisis and long lines outside gas stations, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment disco]], rebellions, revolutions, spiritual discoveries, environmental awareness, lava lamps, UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}, [[AbsoluteCleavage very low necklines]], [[VaporWear women without bras]], VideoGame/{{Pong}}, {{heavy metal}}, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers economic malaise]] and {{Disco}}. Also, [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail møøse...]][[note]]We're sorry for that. Those responsible for writing this index have been sacked.[[/note]]
