As the label "Age of Hope" suggest, the world's people were becoming increasingly hopeful about changes they were beginning to see occur. Education was becoming a higher priority for most people. Literacy was on the rise, and with it came a better-educated workforce that would demand their rights. Advances in technology were leading to better communication, transportation, and power sources. In all, better quality of life. Many people were beginning to seek more freedom. Increasing emigration to the United States and other New World Nations that offered more freedom was a characteristic of this time.
This transforming of the status of the worlds people is historically significant in that it was the period of transition from the "Old World Order" to the "New World Order. .
Twentieth century - when it began and ended historically.
The twentieth century historically began with World War I. World War I marked the end of the "Old Order". It also marked the rise of communism and fascism.
The historical end of the twentieth century was the collapse of the Soviet Union's communist system. Fascism having been defeated with the end of World War II, the end of Soviet communism marked the triumph of democracy.
This period of time is historically significant as it spaned over the death of the "Old Order" and the following battle between fascism, communism, and democracy to be the new dominant social system. .
Congress of Vienna.
The Congress of Vienna was a congress of European leaders who were gathered to reestablish international order after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. This congress was concerned with restoring rulers and frontiers as they were before the French wars, and achieving a balance between weakening France and maintaining peace. Austria's foreign minister, Prince Metternich, was concerned with preserving the existing order. He was largely responsible for the congress's development of the Quintuple Alliance.
