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During the later part of the 19th century, imperialism took a major role in Europe, and soon many of the large empires began competing for territorial and colonial dominance.
From the late 19th to early 20th century, Belgium occupied the African area known as the Congo and King Leopold II had absolute control over the colony.
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The battle between the empires took to the war grounds of Europe, and soon all of Europe was engulfed in a bloody and terrible war characterized by new technology.
At the breakout of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was on the verge of collapsing over centuries of ruling. Ethnic tension has risen over minorities demanding share of power in a Muslim Turk majority.
Early in 1917, Russian withdrew from the war and turned its people against the tsar himself, abdicating him from the throne and turning Russian into the Soviet Union, the first communist power seen from the world. Many countries such as Britain and France turned their troops to attempt restraining communism in Russian after the war.
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The 1930's saw some of the worst economic times of history, with millions of people out of work and money scarce. As a result, new governments in multiple countries began intervening to develop a solution to the "Depression" and get their people working again. Poverty struck globally and people were desperate to even scrape a living and meal for a day.
A combination of Ukrainian nationalism and the new Soviet collective economic policy brought Joseph Stalin to create one of the worst famines of the 20th century.
In Germany, a new dictator was rising to power. Adolf Hitler first became chancellor in 1933, then gave himself the title of "fuhrer" in 1934. His rallies and exemplary dedication to bring Germany out of the ruins of World War I brought the support of many people, whether in or out of his country.
As part of the imperial Japanese army's plans for invading mainland China, a large-scale attack was launched on the city of Nanking, where the Japanese soldiers began committing unspeakable atrocities.
Twenty years later, the world plunges into another global war, only this time, being several times worse than its predecessor. An estimated ot 60 million lives were claimed, many of them civilians.
Alongside World War II, the Holocaust displayed systematic killing at its worst.
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Only a year after the second world war ended, the world saw yet another heated and potentially dangerous rivalry for power: The United States and the Soviet Union. Both of these superpowers would spend then next decades stocking up on nuclear weapons and technology for further development, and engaging in a series of proxy wars, propaganda battles, and violent conflicts overseas.
After 8 long years of war with the Japanese, Mao's Communist Party of China continued with their civil war with Chiang-Kai-shek's Nationalists, successfully driving them out of China by 1949. On October 1st, Mao declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Over the next few years, Mao's sweeping reforms caused dramatic change to China for better or for worse. He seized private warlord land and turned them into people's communes. When faced with rejection or opposition, Mao would sometimes use persuasion, and at other times, would resort to violence and terror. His reform policies were less successful in cities, so he lauched the "Hundred Flowers Campaign" to allow those in urban areas to express their opinions in a democratic fashion. Although he expected minor criticism to his policies, Mao was astonished at the intense rejection and harsh rebuke he received. As a result, he ruthlessly suppressed resistors and labled thousands of Chinese as "rightists", imprisoning or killing them.
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In 1958, Mao Zedong would lead the "Great Leap Forward", a supposed 5-year spur of agriculture and industrial production, which turned out as one of the worst famines of human history.
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Five years after his fall from power, Mao staged a dramatic return and encouraged young students to criticise those who he opposed, and sought to cleanse China of "bourgeois" elements.
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By 1975, Cambodia was ruled by an extremist communit group known as the Khmer Rouge, who brought millions of civilians out of their homes to do forced labour.
Saddam Hussein, known for his cruel and notorious regime, gained a reputation as one of the worst dictators to the present day for his atrocities against the Kurdish population in his country.
The re-unification of West and East Germany signaled for the end of a long and heated conflict between the world's leading communist and capitalist powers.
After centuries of living side-by-side, the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Rwanda broke into a conflict that lead to civil war, the assasination of the president, and one of the most brutal genocides approaching the 21st century.
Convicted of murder, the football star's crimes were the center of the world's attention, depicted as an "American tragedy".
In July of 1995, Srebrenica became the site where Serbian troops lead by Ratko Mladic would attempt horrific atrocities to "ethnically cleanse" the new independant Bosnia.
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In 2003, Sudan plunged into chaos as President Omar al Bashir cracked down on Darfuri rebel movements by launching a series of pillaging and murdering against the African farmers of Darfur.
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