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TIMELINE OF THE 2000S

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In a discussion of potential names for the 2000s, American author and journalist
Walter Isaacson suggested the “Decade of Disruptions,” a reference to a series
of particularly turbulent events. On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the
United States, sparking lengthy wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Amid the military
conflicts, a global financial crisis began in 2007, causing the Great Recession.
The decade also saw a number of devastating natural disasters, including the
Indian Ocean tsunami (2004), Hurricane Katrina (2005), and the Sichuan (China)
earthquake (2008).

The world of arts and entertainment also experienced upheaval. In 2001 Apple
released the iPod, which revolutionized the way people listen to music, and
Netflix forever changed the entertainment industry when it began streaming
movies and TV shows in 2007. In addition, Beyoncé and Eminem emerged as two of
the music industry’s biggest stars, and Survivor made ordinary people famous
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WHY WAS NAZI GERMANY CALLED THE THIRD REICH?

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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler imagined his dictatorial regime as the historical
successor to two great German empires. By claiming for his government the mantle
of the Third Reich, Hitler attempted to position himself within the larger
context of German and European history. In his mind, Hitler’s “thousand-year
Reich” would serve as the natural conclusion of a process that he traced back to
the coronation of Charlemagne in 800. The concept of such a succession of
“Reichs” had its origin just 10 years before Hitler’s rise to power, however,
and those living in the retroactively named “First Reich” (the Holy Roman
Empire) or “Second Reich” (the German Empire) would not have recognized the
validity of such an appellation.

In 1923 German cultural critic Arthur Moeller van den Bruck published Das Dritte
Reich (1923; “The Third Empire,” or “Reich”). Written at a time when the Weimar
Republic was struggling to contain revolutionary forces from both the right and
left, Moeller’s treatise espoused a conservative doctrine that called for the
elevation of German intellectualism and nationalism. Both Marxism and
Western-style democracy were regarded as impediments to Germany’s rightful
ascent to supremacy in Europe, and Moeller proposed that the realization of the
Third, or final, Empire would see the harmonious fusion of Germany’s socialist
and conservative movements. Positioning his theoretical Reich as the third in a
series may have been an attempt to evoke the Hegelian concept of synthesis or an
invocation of Joachim of Fiore’s Trinitarian philosophy of history. Moeller’s
Third Reich was not, however, overtly national socialist in character.



While Hitler did not explicitly mention the Third Reich in his political
manifesto Mein Kampf, early Nazi leader Otto Strasser claimed that Hitler was
aware of Moeller’s work, and the phrase Third Reich entered common use
throughout Germany after Hitler became chancellor in 1933. Although Moeller had
coined the name of one of the most feared and reviled regimes in human history,
he did not live to see its creation. He committed suicide in 1925. In the
introduction to Das Dritte Reich, Moeller warned:

> The thought of a Third Empire might well be the most fatal of all the
> illusions to which they have ever yielded; it would be thoroughly German if
> they contented themselves with day-dreaming about it. Germany might perish of
> her Third Empire dream.




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