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19232007 refers broadly to the age span from 1923 to 2007, an 84‑year period that witnessed profound social, political, and technological transformations worldwide. In the early 1920s the world was still recovering from the casualties of World War I, and 1923 saw notable events such as the Great Kantō earthquake in Japan, the signing of the Treaty of London that concluded the Hungarian–Romanian conflict, and the establishment of Prohibition in the United States, which fostered a surge in organized crime. The mid‑1920s and 1930s were marked by the Great Depression, the rise of totalitarian regimes in Germany and Italy, and the lead‑up to World War II. During the war, the Allies achieved decisive victories through the 1944 D-Day landings, the 1945 Pacific island campaigns, and the devastating use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which ended the conflict in the Pacific. End of World War II ushered in the Cold War, a period of ideological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that included the 1947 Marshall Plan, the 1950 Korean War, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, which showcased the technological heights of the era.

Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, the decolonization of Africa and Asia created new nations and altered global power dynamics. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War era. The 1990s and early 2000s saw the rapid expansion of the internet, global terrorism highlighted by the 2001 September 11 attacks, and the 2004–2007 growth of the information age, with the launch of the International Space Station and the widespread adoption of smartphones laying the groundwork for the digital society of the twenty‑first century. This span from 1923 to 2007, therefore, encapsulates a transformative epoch in modern history, bridging the interwar period to the dawn of a highly interconnected globalized world.