Steps towards reconciliation on a global level were taken in 1965 by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches mutually revoking the excommunications that marked their Great Schism in 1054 ; the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) working towards full communion between those churches since 1970 ; and the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches signing The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999 to address conflicts at the root of the Protestant Reformation.

Most prophecies will be fulfilled during a global time of chaos known as the Great Tribulation and afterwards.

As the 18th century advanced, global competition with Great Britain led to the Seven Years ' War, where France lost its North American holdings.

The first claims of global supremacy of a specific god date to the Late Bronze Age, with Akhenaten's Great Hymn to the Aten ( speculatively connected to Judaism by Sigmund Freud in his Moses and Monotheism ).

President Harding spearheaded, with the urging of the Senate, a monumental global conference, held in Washington, D. C., to limit the armaments of world powers, including the U. S., Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, China, Belgium, Netherlands and Portugal.

The late-2000s recession, which is the most significant global crisis since the Great Depression, has at times been termed a depression, but this terminology is not widely used, with the episode instead being referred to by other terms, such as the " Great Recession ".

They reason that the Cultural Revolution happened due to a series of complex factors: China's relationship with the global Communist movement, geopolitical concerns, the ideological rift between China and the Soviet Union, and the failures of the Great Leap Forward.

With this global reorganization from the Great War, there were those in the American populace that advocated an activist role in international politics and international affairs by the United States.

Marked by global instability and the Great Depression, the 1930s contended with several consequential European and Asian outbreaks of war, leading up to catastrophic World War II in 1939.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

As the global economy entered the first stages of the Great Depression in late 1929, the USA's main goal emerged to protect American jobs and farmers from foreign competition.

Russia finally seemed to have gotten what the Russian Empire had been wanting in its quest to become a global power since the reign of Peter the Great.

Futurism typically holds that all major unfulfilled prophecies will be fulfilled during a global time of catastrophe and war known as the Great Tribulation, in which many other prophecies will be fulfilled during or after the Millennium Reign of Jesus Christ.

As a global movement, anarchist pacifism emerged shortly before World War II in the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States and was a strong presence in the subsequent campaigns for nuclear disarmament.

She then addressed business leaders at the New York Stock Exchange to say Irish people were " as mad as hell " over the Irish banking crisis, and opened the An Gorta Mór ( Great Famine ) exhibition with a speech promising that Ireland's foreign policy focussed on global hunger.

They cite declining attendance at traditional church services and the growth of global mass media as factors necessitating the use of television to ' fulfill the " Great Commission " of the Gospel of Jesus to the generation of the 21st Century.

As a global movement, anarchist pacifism emerged shortly before World War II in the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States and was a strong presence in the subsequent campaigns for nuclear disarmament.

This was part of an overall global period of social upheavals and conflicts such as the Great Depression and the Second World War.

The Great Depression in the United Kingdom, also known as the Great Slump, was a period of national economic downturn in the 1930s, which had its origins in the global Great Depression.

None of this throws Hobsbawm into the embrace of free-market capitalism: " Those of us who lived through the years of the Great Slump still find it almost impossible to understand how the orthodoxies of the pure free market, then so obviously discredited, once again came to preside over a global period of depression in the late 1980s and 1990s, which once again, they were equally unable to understand or to deal with.

Federal reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a federal commission in November 2009, " As a scholar of the Great Depression, I honestly believe that September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

David Alexander argues that any earlier declines were simply part of the global Long Depression, and that the Maritimes first fell behind the rest of Canada when the great boom period of the early twentieth century had little effect on the region.

During the global Depression, citizens of the United States struggled for their livelihoods.

Although the Great Depression challenged its technological momentum, America emerged from it and World War II as one of two global superpowers.

Matters came to a head in 1931, when the combined effects of overabundant oil supplies on the global markets and the economic destabilization of the Depression, led to fluctuations which drastically reduced annual payments accruing to Iran to a fifth of what it had received in the previous year.

The Wall Street Crash heralded the global Great Depression and Britain was particularly badly hit.

A more severe recession hit the United States in 1920 and 1921 ( see: Depression of 1920 – 21 ) when the global economy fell very sharply.

Prior to World War I, international trade formed a large portion of global GDP, but the classical liberal order which supported it had been damaged by war and by the Great Depression of the 1930s.

It has been said that this event resulted in a global financial crisis and ultimately the bank failures of the Great Depression.

They show that this model, when optimized for single-step decision making, produces Belief Anchoring and Polarization of opinions-exactly as described in the global warming controversy context-in spite of identical evidence presented, the pre-existing beliefs ( or evidence presented first ) has an overwhelming effect on the beliefs formed.

In September 2005, IKEA Social Initiative was formed to manage the company's social involvements on a global level.

Banded iron formations have been taken as unavoidable evidence for global ice cover, since they require dissolved iron ions and anoxic waters to form ; however, the limited extent of the Neoproterozoic banded iron deposits means that they may not have formed in frozen oceans, but instead in inland seas.

In 1986, WHO started it global programme on the growing problem of HIV / AIDS, followed two years later by additional attention on preventing discrimination against sufferers and UNAIDS was formed in 1996.

The Measles initiative was formed in 2001, and credited with reducing global deaths from the disease by 68 % by 2007.

In 2006, the organization endorsed the world's first official HIV / AIDS Toolkit for Zimbabwe, which formed the basis for a global prevention, treatment and support plan to fight the AIDS pandemic.

Psion's current operational business was formed in September 2000 from a merger of Psion and Canadian-based Teklogix Inc. and is a global provider of solutions for mobile computing and wireless data collection.

At the end of June 2000, a strategic business alliance between Vivendi, Seagram, and Canal + was announced, and Vivendi Universal, a leading global media and communications company, was formed after the merger with Seagram ( the parent company of Universal Studios ).

During a visit, together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he said there was a need to " strengthen the resistance front formed by independent and freedom-seeking nations to fight against imperialism and global hegemony.

After Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006, Burton and his business partner, Mark Wolfe acquired the global rights to the brand and formed RRKIDZ, a new media company for children.

Chamberlain desired an imperial federation formed on the model of Bismarckian Germany to allow Britain to maintain its global role amidst the growing economic challenge of the United States and Germany.

In 2006, Branson formed Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

Similar movements concurrently formed in many other countries, leading to the formation, at a 1947 meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, of a global coalition, now called World Federalist Movement.

After ConocoPhillips formed, absorbing Phillips, ConocoPhillips established a global systems and services office in Bartlesville.

The board eventually was embroiled in counter lawsuits by board members and listener-sponsors, and after global settlement of the lawsuits in November 2001, an interim board was formed to craft new bylaws, which it did in two tumultuous years of national debates among thousands of listener-sponsors and activists, finally giving listener-sponsors the right and responsibility to elect new Local Station Boards at each of the five Pacifica stations.

A global war ensues between the UN formed Global Defense Initiative to contain it and the cult quasi-state revolutionary Brotherhood of Nod, led by the enigmatic Kane, which seeks to harness it.

Northrop Grumman Corporation () is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop.

No impact craters having formed between the Apollo-era, Clementine ( global resolution 100 metre, selected areas 7-20 metre ) and SMART-1 ( resolution 50 metre ) missions have been identified.

In 2006, Kapur formed Liquid Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

The Loess Plateau was formed over long geologic times, and scientists have derived valuable information about global climate change from samples taken from the deep layer of its silty soil.

Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.

The " Seven Sisters " was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico Mattei, then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil companies which formed the " Consortium for Iran " cartel and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.

Though there is no political institution organizing the sciences on an international level, a self-organized, global network had formed in the late 20th century.

It is a global government that was formed by a ' rich mans ' club ' of wealthy nations.