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WORLD
|
QUEEN
MUM
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| 1914-1918 |
First
World War. Millions of men sent to senseless deaths in the hell of trench warfare |
Takes
nap |
| 1917 |
Russian
Revolution. Bolsheviks wrestle control of the means of production from the bourgeoisie.
|
Rides
horse |
| 1929 |
Wall
Street Crash. World plunged into spiralling depression, millions forced to live
in desperate poverty |
Goes
fishing. |
| 1939-45 |
Second
World War. Europe overrun by the Nazis. London devastated by Blitz. 6 million
Jews systematically murdered. Asia falls to the Japanese. Atomic bomb dropped. |
Waves. |
| 1960-70 |
Social
unrest in Europe and US. War in SE Asia. Cold War escalates into Cuban missile
crisis. Assassination of JFK. Riots in Paris. Explosions in youth culture. Start
of Feminist movement. Sectarian violence escalates in Northern Ireland. |
Buys
hat |
| 1980s |
Thatcher-Reagan
axis hegemony. Increased Cold War tension. Monetarist fiscal policies lead to
high unemployment and widening gap between rich and poor. Famine in Africa. US
military and political intervention in Central America |
Has
cup of tea, flicks through Sporting Life |
| 1990s |
End
of the Cold War. Gulf War. Invention of Internet. Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
|
Hobbles
around race meetings |
| 2001 |
New
Millennium |
Dies
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