cóng 1914
nián dào 1991
nián de “ duǎn zàn de '
èr shí shì jì ”，
lì jīng dì yī cì shì jiè dà zhàn、
dì '
èr cì shì jiè dà zhàn hé lěng zhàn，
bāo kuò liǎo nà cuì dé guó hé sū lián de jué qǐ hé shuāi luò。
zhè xiē zāinàn xìng de shì jiàn xuān shì liǎo '
ōu zhōu zhí mín dì guó de zhōng jié，
bìng chuī xiǎng liǎo guǎng fàn de fēi zhí mín huà de hào jiǎo。 1989
nián zhì 1991
nián sū lián de jiě tǐ shǐ měi guó chéng wéi shì jiè wéi yī chāo jí dà guó，
yǐn fā liǎo tiě mù de bēng kuì、
dé guó tǒng yī hé xiàn réng jìn xíng zhōng de '
ōu zhōu yī tǐ huà jìn chéng de jiā kuài。
The "short twentieth century", from 1914 to 1991, sees World War I, World War II and the Cold War, including the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and of the Soviet Union. These disastrous events spell the end of the European Colonial empires and initiated widespread decolonization. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to 1991 leaves the United States as the world's single superpower and triggers the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reunification of Germany and an accelerated process of a European integration that is ongoing.