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1) According to the text, what are the major themes of the 20th Century before WWI? “The twentieth century opened on a world dominated by the West.” It was during this period that profound progress and European power led the world affairs from the end of 19th century to world war, revolution, and economic collapse. Many themes created the turn of the 20th Century and made this period so globally powerful. Scientific discoveries and technological improvements …

…to make a preventive “strike against the United States forces in the Far East and occupy natural resource rich areas around the Pacific rim.” It was for the good of the nation and so on December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. These are the factors that I’ve concluded from reading the article. I think they inevitably caused the nations into wars and that is why the author called the period, the Century of Warfare.