Home›The Age of Extremes›All The Age of ExtremesBrowse ByAll The Age of ExtremesReference and ClassificationVerified1914 to 1945, the opening half of Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, capped here at 1945 rather than his own 1991 so as not to override this atlas's already-recorded live relationships tying the two World Wars and their surrounding events to this same band, and its own era entity The Contemporary Period already beginning exactly 1945: the assassination that triggered the First World War, its major battles, the Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar hyperinflation it helped set off, the Great Depression, the Bengal Famine, the Holodomor, Gandhi's Salt March, and the Second World War. Belongs here: an event primarily dated 1914 to 1945. Does not belong here: an event dated 1945 or later, grouped under The Contemporary World.FactsAll The Age of ExtremesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonStart YearWell-attested1914 CE 1All The Age of ExtremesFilter Results25 entriesEraAllThe Contemporary Period (1)The Late Modern Period (23)ParticipantsAllAdolf Hitler (1)Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1)Charles de Gaulle (2)David Lloyd George (1)Douglas Haig (1)Erich von Falkenhayn (1)Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)Gavrilo Princip (2)Georges Clemenceau (1)John Maynard Keynes (1)Joseph Stalin (1)Kaiser Wilhelm II (1)Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (2)Nicholas II of Russia (2)Philippe Petain (1)Winston Churchill (1)Woodrow Wilson (1)LocationAllBengal Province and Orissa Province, British India (1)Dersim Region (modern-day Tunceli Province, Turkey) (1)Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire (Dardanelles Strait) (1)Germany, chiefly the Ruhr industrial region and Berlin (1)Global, principally Europe, East Asia and the Pacific (1)Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles, France (1)Kronstadt, Kotlin Island, Russia (1)Middle East (1)Ottoman Empire (territory of modern-day Turkey) (1)Prague, Bohemia and Moravia (1)River Somme, Picardy, France (Western Front) (1)Russia (1)Soviet Ukraine (1)Spain (1)Verdun and its fortifications, Meuse, France (Western Front) (1)Event Era (Year)All1914 (3)1915 (2)1916 (4)1917 (1)1918 (1)1919 (2)1921 (1)1923 (1)1929 (1)1930 (1)1932 (1)1936 (1)1937 (1)1939 (1)1943 (1)1944 (1)1945 (1)Event TypeAllEconomic Event (1)Military Conflict (21)Natural Disaster (2)Political Event (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 25Arab RevoltThe Age of ExtremesArmenian GenocideThe Age of ExtremesAssassination of Archduke Franz FerdinandThe Age of ExtremesBattle of the SommeThe Age of ExtremesBattle of VerdunThe Age of ExtremesBengal Famine of 1943The Age of ExtremesBretton Woods ConferenceThe Age of ExtremesDersim massacreThe Age of ExtremesEaster RisingThe Age of ExtremesGallipoli CampaignThe Age of ExtremesGreat DepressionThe Age of ExtremesHolodomorThe Age of ExtremesKronstadt rebellionThe Age of ExtremesPrague uprisingThe Age of ExtremesRussian RevolutionThe Age of ExtremesSalt MarchThe Age of ExtremesSecond Sino-Japanese WarThe Age of ExtremesSpanish Civil WarThe Age of ExtremesSpanish FluThe Age of ExtremesThe World WarsThe Age of ExtremesTreaty of VersaillesThe Age of ExtremesTurkish War of IndependenceThe Age of ExtremesWeimar Republic HyperinflationThe Age of ExtremesWorld War IThe Age of ExtremesWorld War IIThe Age of ExtremesSources1. Wikipedia: The Age of Extremestier 2WikipediaThe Age of Extremes, lead section, opening sentenceQuote, The Age of Extremes, lead section, opening sentenceThe Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.