Two world wars and one great depression during the last 100 years

The most recent century shaped the world in many different ways. The world has undergone two world wars and one worldwide depression. The first war was designated as the Great War and was supposed to be the war to end all wars. After the war a worldwide depression set in during the 1920’s leading up to the next Great War, World War 2. After World War 1 and the Russian revolution in 1917, communism rose to become a political and social system favored by some countries. The countries did not believe that free market capitalism was the way for them to get out of the depression so they looked to socialism and communism as the collective to raise them up. Some countries put their trust with charismatic leaders who were able to gain absolute power over the nation at that time. Two countries that bought into the Nationalist Fascism movement were Italy and Germany. Germany and Italy along with Japan signed a tripartite pact in September 1940 which came to form the Axis powers. It was these three nations that went to war with the rest of the world. During this war the nature of who was targeted changed from those directly involved in the war to every citizen of the country. During the war there were large amounts of indiscriminate bombing that took place over cities and not military targets. Great Britain along with the United States and Russia formed the Allied forces that fought the Axis powers assault on the world. The end of the war happened as Russia and the United States were able to defeat Germany and the United States dropped the first atomic bomb used during warfare. Post World War 2 a cold war formed between the western world of democracies and the communist countries which centered on Russia.