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The twentieth and twenty-first century world from the First World War onward: the Interwar Period, the Cold War, and the present contemporary period. Belongs here: any era whose defining dates fall from 1914 onward. Does not belong here: the nineteenth-century world that precedes the First World War, grouped under The Long Nineteenth Century.

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1. Wikipedia: Contemporary history
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Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present.
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