American way of life or "American way of life" was a behavior model that emerged in the United States after the First and Second World Wars. This way of life involved consumerism,...
The space race, started in 1957, was a technological competition, fought between the Soviet Union and the United States for the conquest of Earth orbit. The goal was to develop...
The Napoleonic Empire began on May 18, 1804 and ended on April 14, 1814. This form of government was instituted after the appointment of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of the French. In...
“Neocolonialism” is the process of political and economic domination instituted by the emerging capitalist powers (United Kingdom, Arabia and Belgium, United States, Prussia,...
Mercosur is the acronym for Southern Common Market, an economic bloc currently composed of four South American countries, created on March 26, 1991. The countries that make up Mercosur are...
The Paris Agreement is an international commitment discussed between 195 countries with the objective of minimizing the consequences of global warming. It was adopted during the Conference of the Parties -...
The USSR, which stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was created on December 30, 1922 and dissolved on December 26, 1991. The Soviet Union was formed by 15...
The period of the Terror (1792-1794), during the French Revolution, was marked by religious and political persecution, civil wars, and guillotine executions. At that time, France was...
The UN (United Nations) is an international body created on October 24, 1945, after World War II. The purpose of the agency is to maintain peace and security...
Salazarism is one of the names of the Portuguese “Estado Novo” (1926-1974), a political regime led by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970). This ideology was inspired by fascism...
The caste system in India is a model for organizing society into class divisions based on religious precepts. In this system, the stratification of the company takes place according to the...
India's independence was achieved on August 15, 1947 after a long process of struggle. The British left a country divided into two nations: India and Pakistan. Colonization...
The Meiji Era (Regime or Enlightened Government) meant the first epoch of the Empire in Japan and which remained between the years 1868-1912. It was extremely important to the development process...
The Contemporary Age determines a period of history that goes from 1789 to the present day. Remember that the term “contemporary” is associated with the current time, the present. So, the...
Films are a great way to learn or reinforce material. World War II inspired several cinematographic works that are a good way to understand more about the...
Stalinism was a totalitarian regime of communist character that took place in the Soviet Union, from 1927 to 1953, during the government of the dictator Josef Stalin. The Stalinist government promoted collectivization...
The 18th of Brumaire was a coup d'état carried out by Napoleon Bonaparte, on November 9th and 10th, 1799, in France. What was the 18 Brumaire coup? It was a political maneuver to...
The unification of Italy was a process of union between the various kingdoms that made up the Italian Peninsula, after the expulsion of the Austrians. It took place in the second half of the 19th century and ended...
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace agreement sealed between the victorious powers of World War I and defeated Germany. The process began with the armistice of November 11,...
Perestroika and Glasnost were the reformist policies carried out by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, from 1985-1991. Unstocked store in Russia on...
The creation of the television set is the result of the combination of several inventions that enabled the reception of an electrical signal and its transformation into images. Officially, the first...
Concentration camps were used by the Nazi regime to imprison thousands of people in the 1930s and 1940s. At least 20,000 fields were used between 1933 and 1945, in Germany and in...
The Trench War (1915-1917) was the phase of World War I when this military tactic was widely used. What was it? The Trench War lasted two years and was the...
The Congress of Vienna took place between 11 November 1814 and 9 June 1815 and reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. In addition, decisions were taken that affected Brazil, such as...
The Holocaust was the mass extermination of about six million Jews in concentration camps. It was carried out by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, in Germany, during World War II...
The Vietnam War, which took place between 1955 and 1975, was a conflict between the United States and North Vietnam, the latter supported by the Soviet Union. Combat is part of the context of War...
The New Deal (from English, "New Deal", "New Deal" or "New Covenant") was a set of economic and social measures to solve the Crisis of 1929. The plan articulated investments...
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks are the two currents into which the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia split. The words “Bolshevik” and “Menchevik” come from Russian and mean,...
The People's Spring was a series of conflicts that took place in some European countries in 1848. Liberal, national and socialist in nature, the so-called Revolution of 1848 began in...
The Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961 and torn down 28 years later, on November 9, 1989. The wall divided the city of Berlin in two, in order to prevent the emigration of the population...
The Korean War (1950-1953) was an armed conflict that took place on the Korean Peninsula and divided the country into North Korea and South Korea. Technically, the conflict is not over yet, because it wasn't...
Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) was British Prime Minister and the first woman to hold this post. Thatcher's government lasted eleven years, from 1979 to 1990, and was characterized by the implementation of the...
The 1970s became known as the one in which the belief in the icons of the 60s was shaken, which led some manifestations to become more subtle and unruly, as in the festivals of...
The Franquism or Franquist Regime (1939-1975) was a dictatorial political system established in Spain between the years 1939 to 1976, following the fascist molds and led by Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo...
The beginning of World War II occurred on September 1, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by the German army. Germany demanded that Poland return the zone called “corridor...
The so-called "Chinese Revolution" refers to two moments in China's history: the 1911 Chinese Revolution and the 1949 Chinese Revolution. The Chinese Revolution of 1911, also called the...
Imperialism in Asia occurred throughout the 19th century when European powers, Japan and the United States occupied Asian regions. The expansion to Asia was due to factors...
Colonialism or colonization was the occupation of territories in America and on the African coast by Portugal, Spain, England and France, in the 14th and 15th centuries. Imperialism is a created concept...
In 2010 the Arab Spring began, a movement of protest in Muslim countries that started in Tunisia and continues to this day. The movement is characterized by the struggle for...
The proclamation of the National Constituent Assembly in France took place on July 9, 1789. Two years later, on September 3, 1791, a Constitution was adopted that ended the Old...
The Revolt of the Cipaios, Sipaios or Sipais (from the Hindi shipahi, which means “soldier”), also known as the “Indian Revolt of 1857”, was a popular armed insurrection that followed in...
The Fall of the Bastille or Taking of the Bastille was the overthrow of the Bastille prison-fortress by the people of Paris on July 14, 1789. This prison symbolized the absolutism and arbitrariness of...
The Treaty of Utrecht (1713-1715) was actually two agreements that ended the War of Spanish Succession and changed the map of Europe and the Americas. In the first Treaty, in 1713, the...
Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts between French revolutionaries and the European monarchy. It was one of the most important wars in history and started around 1803. To the...
The Continental Blockade took place during the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1806, and was an imposition of Napoleon Bonaparte on European countries, which consisted of cutting...
The hippie movement emerged in the city of San Francisco, on the west coast of the United States, in the 1960s. Hippies preached free love, respect for nature, pacifism and a more...
Neo-Nazism (from Latin, “neo” means new) is a contemporary movement inspired by Nazi ideals. It started to appear in the late 70's in different parts of the world. In others...
Hiroshima Bomb is the name of the episode in which the first atomic bomb in history was used. It was named Little Boy. Following it, three days later, Fat Man was launched to another...
The Victorian Era, which took place between 1837 and 1901, marks the reign of Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom and a period of great economic, political and cultural transformations. Also known as...
The term iron curtain was created by British politician Wiston Churchill. He first used it during a speech she gave in Fullton, Missouri, in 1946. With...
