Contemporary history
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Contemporary history describes the historical timeframe that are immediately relevant to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. Recent contemporary history's intentionally loose definition includes major events such as the Second World War, but not those events whose effects have been overcome.The word contemporary also means the moderns styles of today's era.
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