Summary of EDAD CONTEMPORÁNEA (1789-1991) | Resumen en 6 minutos

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This video covers the history of the 20th century, focusing on the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. This rivalry led to World War II, which ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of Russia's Boris Yeltsin. Anabel Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, is shown failing to make a successful transition from communism to capitalism.

• 00:00:00 In the 18th century, a group of philosophers and thinkers began to question the absolute power of the aristocracy, the wealthy businessmen who owned large businesses and fortunes. This movement, called the "Illustrated Enlightenment," soon led to political and economic ideology called liberalism, which the bourgeoisie championed to lead revolutions that led to the birth of the United States, France, and other liberaldemocratic revolutions in Europe. At the end of the 18th century, the French Revolution ended with the absolute monarchy of the Bourbon dynasty, which established a so-called "citizen's power" and bourgeois regime. This led to another personalist regime in the form of Napoleon Bonaparte, who founded a French empire that expanded throughout Europe during a decade. However, by the end of the 19th century, the rise of the industrial revolution led to the emergence of working-class movements, which ultimately led to the founding of Marxism and anarchism, two revolutionary ideologies born of the industrial revolution. Meanwhile, in the United States, another revolution was taking place, this time quiet and slow, led by millions of small farmers and businessmen who had begun to change the way they manufactured products using the exchanges of trade. This was the so-called "Industrial Revolution,"
• 00:05:00 This video covers the history of the 20th century, focusing on the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. This rivalry led to World War II, which ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of Russia's Boris Yeltsin. Anabel Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, is shown failing to make a successful transition from communism to capitalism.