Modern History Crosswords
- Chernobyl disaster Crossword The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear disaster. It happened on April 26,1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the town of Pripyat, …
- COVID-19 pandemic Crossword The COVID-19 pandemic, also called the coronavirus pandemic, was a world-wide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It is caused …
- Indian independence movement Crossword The Indian independence movement was a movement from 1857 until 15 August 1947, when India got its independence from the British Raj.
- Iran–Iraq War Crossword The Iran–Iraq War was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. It began when Iraq invaded …
- Syrian civil war Crossword Syrian civil war, also known as the Syrian Uprising, or Syrian Crisis, was an armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic. The conflict …
About Modern History
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, often from around the year 1500, like the Reformation's giving rise to Protestantism in Germany and elsewhere. Since the 1990s, it has been more common among historians to refer to the period after the Middle Ages and up to the 19th century as the early modern period. The modern period is today more often used for events from the 19th century until today. The time from the end of World War II (1945) can also be described as being part of contemporary history. The common definition of the modern period today is often associated with events like the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the transition from nationalism toward the liberal international order.
The modern period has been a period of significant development in the fields of science, politics, warfare, and technology. It has also been an Age of Discovery and globalization. During this time, the European powers and later their colonies, strengthened their political, economic, and cultural colonization of the rest of the world. It also created a new modern lifestyle and has permanently changed the way people around the world live.
In the 19th and early 20th century, modernist art, politics, science, and culture have come to dominate not only Western Europe and North America, but almost every area on the globe, including movements thought of as opposed to the western world and globalization. The modern era is closely associated with the development of individualism, capitalism, socialism, urbanization and a belief in the positive possibilities of technological and political progress.
Text adapted from Wikipedia article “Modern era” (revision 1357815133, 2026-06-04), authors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.