Is it possible to summarize an entire century by explaining the thirty most important events that occurred during that period of time? Can one look to the next century and understand it better by knowing the past? 
 Pearl S. Buck famously stated: "If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." James Baldwin Said, "People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. " Indeed, to see forward, we have to look back. This book will summarize thirty seminal events of the twentieth century, in an effort to understand the twenty-first.