World at the Beginning of 20th Century

I usually share topics about history, literature, and art on my blog, with a focus on cultural. But recently, I realized something: history is no longer just a nostalgic field for people who are already interested in it. On the contrary, it now appears in front of everyone, whether they are interested in history or not, right at the centre of current events and politics.

To understand today’s world, its complex political balances, and the crises in the headlines, looking back at the dusty pages of the past has become a necessity rather than a choice. I decided to start a long journey with you that will last about a month.

1. Paris Peace Conference (January 18, 1919)

2. The October Revolution: Bolsheviks (Part I)

3. The Basmachi Movement: Against the Soviet Empire (Part II)

4. World War I: How It Reshaped the Middle East

5. Japan's Meiji Restoration and the Birth of a Modern Empire

6. Science and Culture in the Shadow of Crises

7. Black Thursday:The Great Depression

8. The Rise of Fascism,Nazism, and Militarism before WWII

With the foundations of the 20th century now firmly in place, our journey takes a darker turn. The world that emerged from revolution, colonial ambition, and economic collapse was hurtling toward the deadliest conflict in human history.

1. The Causes ofWorld War II: From Pearl Harbor to the Fall of Berlin (part I)

2. Blitzkrieg: How Hitler's Lightning War Swallowed Europe and Ignited the Pacific (part II)

3. From Normandy toHiroshima: The Allied Victory and the End of World War II (part III)

4. From Casablanca to Potsdam: The Conferences That Shaped the Post-War (part ıv)

5. A World Reborn: The New Order After World War II andthe Dawn of the Cold War (part v)

With the war over and the world redrawn, a new and quieter conflict had already begun, one fought not with armies, but with ideology, proxy wars, and the ever-present shadow of nuclear weapons. This is the Cold War.

1. The Beginning of the Cold War: Superpowers, Nuclear Fear, and a Divided Europe
2. The Spread of Communism: Cuba, China, and the Building of the Eastern Bloc
3. Cracks in the Iron Curtain: Tito, Hungary, and the Prague Spring
4. Building the Western Bloc: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Birth of the EU

5. The Birth of Israel and the First Arab-Israeli War: A History of Palestine

6. Black Gold and the Suez Crisis: Oil, Nasser, and the End of British Power in the Middle East
7. The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Lebanon Crisis: America's New Role in the Middle East
8. The Korean War, the Fall of Indochina, and the Birth of SEATO: Cold War in the Far East
9. The End of Empires: Indian Independence, Vietnam, and the African Awakening
10. Balkan Alliance, Baghdad Pact, and the Syrian Crisis: Türkiye at the Heart of Cold War Diplomacy
11. Science, Space, and Society: The Cold War's Silent Revolutio

The Cold War was never truly cold. Beneath the surface of diplomatic summits and arms limitation treaties, proxy wars raged, revolutions toppled governments, and the world came closer to nuclear annihilation than most people knew. Yet this was also the era of the Moon landing, the internet’s first steps, and a generation that took to the streets demanding a different world. Welcome to the Détente period, where tension and transformation walked hand in hand.

1. The Détente Era: Ping-Pong Diplomacy, SALT, and the Helsinki Accords
2. The U-2 Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam: Cold War at Its Hottest
3. Kashmir, Afghanistan, and the Non-Aligned Movement: Cold War Beyond the Superpowers
4. The Six-Day War, Yom Kippur, and Camp David: The Arab-Israeli Conflict and ItsUnresolved Wounds
5. OPEC, the Ba’ath Party, and the Iran-Iraq War: The Middle East in Flames
6. The Détente Era: Space Race, Technological Revolution, and Cultural Transformation