most influential people of the 20th Century.

**Paul Markham** · 08-02-2012, 01:30 AM

for me it's Tim Berners Lee. He created something most people on the Earth use all the time without thinking ad sometimes without knowing. and he gave it to the world for free. Gates and Jobs, charged us.

Followed by Hitler, he shaped the most of the 20th Century and still has effect today. Russia might still be communist and just a struggling State without Hitler and WW2.

**jimmycooper** · 08-02-2012, 01:30 AM

Karl Marx would probably have to make the list even though he was already dead.

**Paul Markham** · 08-02-2012, 01:41 AM

Originally posted by jimmycooper

Karl Marx would probably have to make the list even though he was already dead.

My thinking is without WW2, there would of been no Eastern Block as Stalin couldn't of armed up and taken over the countries he did with Hitler as the enemy. Would any of the Eastern Block of gone Communist and stayed Communist without the war?

Questionable if the War in the Pacific would of happened or been as drawn out without the war in Europe. The war in the Pacific destabilised China and allowed Japan to invade and stay. Afterwards Mao took over. Could he of done that with a stable china?

WW2 has done more to shape the world today than most things.

**ottopottomouse** · 08-02-2012, 02:33 AM

Alexander Fleming

**kazymjir** · 08-02-2012, 02:39 AM

Adolf Hitler for sure. Without WW II the world today would be TOTALLY different.
For example, without V1/V2 rockets, maybe 2012 would be a year in which human feet stand on Moon.
Politics, technology, lot of things which we have today is a result of WW II.

**AllAboutCams** · 08-02-2012, 02:44 AM

che guevara revolutionary or terrorist depends what time you are on

**Matyko** · 08-02-2012, 02:47 AM

What a fucking stupid list...
Where is John Lennon?
Where is Bob Marley?
Where is Albert Hoffman?
At least a dozen more names should be in that list

**Overload** · 08-02-2012, 03:00 AM

adolf hitler ... without that lunatic maniac europe might still wage wars ... but, europe learned its lesson and had no war ever since (err, on own soil i mean) ...

**kazymjir** · 08-02-2012, 03:02 AM

Originally posted by Overload

adolf hitler ... without that lunatic maniac europe might still wage wars ... but, europe learned its lesson and had no war ever since (err, on own soil i mean) ...

Exactly this

**artwilliams** · 08-02-2012, 03:08 AM

Thomas Alva Edison. He invented hundreds of things including the light bulb and motion pictures.

**u-Bob** · 08-02-2012, 04:19 AM

Originally posted by kazymjir

Adolf Hitler for sure. Without WW II the world today would be TOTALLY different.
For example, without V1/V2 rockets, maybe 2012 would be a year in which human feet stand on Moon.
Politics, technology, lot of things which we have today is a result of WW II.

And Hitler would most likely never have been able to rise to power if it hadn't been for the Treaty of Versailles.

**kazymjir** · 08-02-2012, 04:29 AM

Originally posted by artwilliams

Thomas Alva Edison. He invented hundreds of things including the light bulb and motion pictures.

invented?

LOL

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

**DamianJ** · 08-02-2012, 04:37 AM

Tesla
Turing

**kazymjir** · 08-02-2012, 04:41 AM

Originally posted by DamianJ

Tesla
Turing

most influential people of the 20th Century.

most influential people of the 20th Century.

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