History keywords are the words that are essential to know in order to write about and understand any historical topic. This page offers a selection of useful Twentieth Century history keywords to aid learning about the topic.
Twentieth Century History Keywords
| Abdication AIDS Al Capone Assassination Beatles Berlin Wall Che Guevara Cold War Consumer Cuban Missile Crisis Depression Falklands War Gandhi General Strike Henry Ford Holocaust |
Internet Kennedy Microsoft Mother Theresa Neil Armstrong Penicillin Prohibition Russian Revolution Space Race Suez Crisis Titanic Vietnam Watergate Woodstock World War One World War Two |
Citation Information:
Heather Y Wheeler. (2022). Twentieth Century History Keywords. Available: https://www.historykeyskills.com/twentieth-century-history-keywords/. Last accessed October 20th, 2025