For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish. At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening. As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above. Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much happening right now and as 2023 ends, let's try to keep things in perspective, knowing that we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted forever. This too shall pass.
@HistoryInPics Perspective: May be all what you were told by the media is a lie? x.com/may45454545/st…
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That's not even all of the mass death that occurred that century. Plenty of ethnic cleansing all over the globe. Soviet and Chinese communist centralized/planned economies that lead to famine and starvation for tens of millions more, etc. The 20th century really kinda sucked for humanity.
Agree 💯! Here’s a few facts regarding WW2: The war lasted six years and one day. WWII began on September 1st 1939. WWII ended on September 2nd 1945. The war began when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain declared war against Germany on September 3rd 1939. Germany was led by Adolf Hitler - the leader of the Nazi party.
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@HistoryInPics @RealTimBooth He was a good and generous man. Neither my sister nor my cousins could have guessed it; because he never talked about the past. Ever. Guess why. Personally, t's even easier for me to understand it.., now that I've read this article.
@HistoryInPics Perspective: what being exposed to state violence does to you? Is the current war in Gaza going to make Israel safer? x.com/may45454545/st…
@HistoryInPics Perspective: what being exposed to state violence does to you? Is the current war in Gaza going to make Israel safer? x.com/may45454545/st…
@HistoryInPics @joerogan Nice post. With all that’s taking place against the Palestinians right now, I have great faith in humanity that Israel will be brought to justice in same way Nazis were post WII, for crimes they’ve been committing against the innocent civilian population for the past 75 years.