Home›Subcategories›The Contemporary WorldSubcategoriesThe Contemporary World13 of 132 entries in Eras. Click any to see everything it connects to.Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextHistory Atlas. "The Contemporary World." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://history.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/era/the-contemporary-world.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextHistory Atlas. (n.d.). The Contemporary World. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://history.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/era/the-contemporary-worldCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{historyatlas-the-contemporary-world, author = {History Atlas}, title = {The Contemporary World}, year = {2026}, url = {https://history.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/era/the-contemporary-world}, note = {Accessed September 8, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingThe 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.Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)BrowseCompareSelect all 13The African Independence EraThe Contemporary World4 linksThe Atomic AgeThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Chinese Republican EraThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Cold WarThe Contemporary World21 linksThe Contemporary PeriodThe Contemporary World20 linksThe Cultural Revolution EraThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Information AgeThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Interwar PeriodThe Contemporary World14 linksThe Showa EraThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Space AgeThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Taisho EraThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Warlord EraThe Contemporary World1 linkThe Weimar Republic EraThe Contemporary World1 linkComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year