What is 20th century?
{{centurybox|20}} The '''20th century''' began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. The 20th century saw two [[World War|world wars]] and a [[Cold War]], the rise and fall of the [[Soviet Union]], the coming of the [[telephone]], [[Sound recording and reproduction|sound recording]], [[movie]]s and [[television]], [[Airplane|airplanes]], [[Nuclear weapon|atomic weapons]], [[genetics]] and [[DNA]], [[Computer|computers]] and [[electronics]] in general. [[Science]] and [[industrialisation|industrialization]] spread; [[medicine]] became more scientific. [[World population]] growth was greater during this century than any previous one. == Significant people == === World leaders === * [[Africa]] ** [[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]], [[Ivory Coast|Côte d'Ivoire]] ** [[Kenneth Kaunda]], [[Zambia]] ** [[Jomo Kenyatta]], [[Kenya]] ** [[Idi Amin]], [[Uganda]] ** [[Nelson Mandela]], [[South Africa]] ** [[Robert Mugabe]], [[Zimbabwe]] ** [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], [[Egypt]] ** [[Kwame Nkrumah]], [[Ghana]] ** [[Julius Nyerere]], [[Tanzania]] ** [[Muammar al-Gaddafi]], [[Libya]] ** [[Cecil Rhodes]], [[South Africa]] ** [[Haile Selassie I]], [[Ethiopia]] ** [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]], [[Senegal]] * [[Americas]] ** [[William McKinley]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Harry S. Truman]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[John F. Kennedy]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Richard Nixon]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Ronald Reagan]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[George H. W. Bush]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Bill Clinton]], [[United States|USA]] ** [[Wilfrid Laurier]], [[Canada]] ** [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]], [[Canada]] ** [[Pierre Trudeau]], [[Canada]] ** [[Che Guevara|Ernesto 'Che' Guevara]], [[Argentina]] ** [[Fidel Castro]], [[Cuba]] ** [[Raúl Castro]], [[Cuba]] ** [[Juan Perón]], [[Argentina]] ** [[Jorge Rafael Videla]], [[Argentina]] ** [[Leopoldo Galtieri]], [[Argentina]] ** [[Salvado