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    Question Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    legendary impact

    most influential, gamechanging historical event of the modern era

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    The First World War changed the direction of the century more than WWII. The Great War set the stage for the next one.

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    I think WWII was more important than WWI, that's for sure.

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    imagine being on the frontlines of ww2 and living to tell the tale, not a scratch

    the stories you'd have

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    It depends how far into the past you consider to be "modern", and how wide or narrow of a window you are allowing for the word "event". World War II could be thought of as hundreds of thousands, or even millions of events.

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    balkans started ww1

    typical balkan behavior

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    Quote Originally Posted by Im Still Ballin
    balkans started ww1

    typical balkan behavior
    I blame Austria-Hungary, but what do I know.

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    Quote Originally Posted by Im Still Ballin
    balkans started ww1

    typical balkan behavior
    If i get my hands on you, you'd see what the ww3 would look like.

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    Norman Borlaug saving half of the world from starvation was the most important event/invention in history

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

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    most influential, gamechanging historical event of the modern era
    Nope.

    The advent of personal electronic computers. Not even remotely close.

    You could argue the internet and I wouldn't disagree.

    And soon(less than 20 years) it'll be none of the above as AI starts to truly grow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Simmons 25
    Nope.

    The advent of personal electronic computers. Not even remotely close.

    You could argue the internet and I wouldn't disagree.

    And soon(less than 20 years) it'll be none of the above as AI starts to truly grow.
    Part of me agrees with you. The PC and the internet are such profound shifts.

    But there is much more to examine beyond tech shifts... political and philosophical developments can be just as important.

    I honestly think the Copernican revolution is the greatest single shift in any field

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    Most important event in modern history was the creation of the first nuclear bomb codenamed Trinity, which was the result of the Manhattan project. It began the nuclear age from then and a whole new field of science.

    Yeah, the world would have sucked & be dangerous for half of the world's population if Nazis won ww2, but life would continue. Nuclear age has changed the world and potentially put the entire human population (and all life) on the line. Not only for bombs but energy, nuclear waste and future of space exploration/travel.

    Either that or the formation of the scientific process. Problem is the formation of scientific process is not a single event so I can't really count that..

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    obsessed with WW2


    1935-45 world history was too fascinating


    the speed at which human civilization evolved, wow


    on the grand scheme of things (science, technology, medicinal, political, religion), yes by a long shot the most pinnacle time period in human history.

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    Quote Originally Posted by bladefd
    Most important event in modern history was the creation of the first nuclear bomb codenamed Trinity, which was the result of the Manhattan project. It began the nuclear age from then and a whole new field of science.

    Yeah, the world would have sucked & be dangerous for half of the world's population if Nazis won ww2, but life would continue. Nuclear age has changed the world and potentially put the entire human population (and all life) on the line. Not only for bombs but energy, nuclear waste and future of space exploration/travel.

    Either that or the formation of the scientific process. Problem is the formation of scientific process is not a single event so I can't really count that..
    nuclear physics were just more biproduct of WW2

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    Default Re: Is WW2 the most important event in modern history?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Simmons 25
    Nope.

    The advent of personal electronic computers. Not even remotely close.

    You could argue the internet and I wouldn't disagree.

    And soon(less than 20 years) it'll be none of the above as AI starts to truly grow.

    true... but ww2 birthed the technology that ended world wars.

    Nukes were the paradigm shift.

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