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![Top 10 Countries That Disappeared In The 20th Century | History 2[+or less 3].0 | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/sb_B4WS3zj3ikuiRGn3QMTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
New nations seem to pop up with alarming regularity. At the start of the 20th century, there were only a few dozen independent sovereign states on the planet; today, there are nearly 200! 
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Report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 2011 was a record year for Palestinian displacement.
This infographic comes from the group http://visualizingpalestine.org This corresponds with the UN's recent statement that Gaza 'will not be liveable by 2020' given Israeli policies as reported by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19391809 Via Jack Patterson
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October 31, 2018 11:41 AM
This article explains the devastating demolitions that are caused by large -scale military operations such as the War on Gaza in 2008-09. Ten years ago, a 23 year old man (Corrie) was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer when he and his group of activists were acting as human shields to try to stop the Israeli army from demolishing Palestinian homes and clearing out the land around the Palestinian town of Rafah.
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This map shows each verified incident of violence in Gaza and Israel since last week's assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed al-Jabari. Geospatial technologies combined with social media are changing how we learn about (and wage) wars.
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Amazing to see many of the countries and empires that are no longer around. Also with the dissoution of many of the empires it lead's to many of the issues that were are dealiing with today. Splitting the Austro-Hugaraian Empire after WWI along ethnic lines didn't really work and helped to lead to WWII. The Germans in the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia fro example. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sudetendeutsche_gebiete.svg
for the area of German population.
10 countries that have become nonexistent in the 20th century include Tibet, East Germany and Yugoslavia. These countries have died off because of ethic, religious and cultural falls that were quickly taken over by bigger and more powerful countries.
Essentially this article boils down to the issues of religion, ethnicity and nationalism. People who are diverse and have different ideas generally cannot all live together under one rule and agree on everything, hence nations split and new ones form to cater to their own beliefs and similarities.