20: 1949: Great Leap Forward | People’s Century

19: 1954: Living Longer | People's Century

Medical advances allow people to live longer and healthier lives. Penicillin is developed in time to save lives during the Second ...

21: 1968: New Release | People's Century

The baby boom produced a cohort of children in the affluent and secure post-war world who for the first time would question establis...

22: 1970: Half the People | People's Century

Women struggle to win political and economic rights in societies gamed to entrench male privilege. Even with limited suffrage, a...

23: 1975: War of the Flea | People's Century

While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpower riva...

24: 1979: God Fights Back | People's Century

Religion makes a comeback into people's lives in the Islamic world and elsewhere, as people seek guidance and spiritual sustenan...

25: 1989: People Power | People's Century

By the 1970s the people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were becoming aware of the economic failures of central planning.

26: 1997: Fast Forward | People's Century

Governments around the world liberalise trade and withdraw from intervening in the economy, giving new opportunities to those who a...