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short 20th century

short 20th century is the alternative form of short twentieth century.

Meaning of short twentieth century

Proper noun

the short twentieth century

  1. (specifically) The period between 1914 and 1991, from the beginning of World War I to the fall of the Soviet Union.
    • How are we to make sense of the Short Twentieth Century, that is to say of the years from the outbreak of the First World War to the collapse of the USSR which, as we can now see in retrospect, forms a coherent historical period that has now ended? We do not know what will come next, and what the...1994, Eric Hobsbawm, “The Century: A Bird’s Eye View”, in The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, section II, page 5

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Forms of short 20th century

pluralshort 20th centuries

Questions about short 20th century

What is short 20th century the alternative form of?
Short 20th century is the alternative form of short twentieth century.

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