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@michelle Thanks for the clarification. 🙂

Okay, it’s Sunday tomorrow, so I’ll not be on again until Monday.  I’ll give you a quick few notes for now, and we can discuss more later if you like.

In the 1800s and early 1900s (until 1937 when Ireland won its freedom) the Irish were treated very badly by the British, who ruled them.  The Irish, like the Poles in the East, were one of the most looked down upon people groups in their area.  Poverty-stricken Englishmen of course had hard times as well, but racism caused greater struggles for the Irish.  Something you could note is that in the 1800s and early 1900s there was a great European immigration to America by poor people who heard that the streets of New York were “lined with gold”.  So many of the poor people, even if still in Europe, would be dreaming about America, or would have relatives in America. (The Irish were treated badly in America too, though.)

In 1917 in Russia, there was a revolution and Communism was introduced.  Before that, there was an Emperor and the poor people were very much looked down upon by the upper classes and noblemen.  After the revolution, it was pretty dangerous to have blue blood for a while, but the poor people weren’t much better off, like in the French Revolution.

At the moment I can’t think of anything I know about Italian modern history. 🙁

That’s about all I can give you just from memory.  @seekjustice will have to take it from here.  As I said, Europe is her area of expertise.  Hopefully this helps a little until she shows up. 🙂 (And SeekJustice, please correct me if I said anything wrong here.  I’m trying to give an overview, but my memory could very well be wrong in some places. 😛 )

Oh yes, and I stopped just before WWII, so after this you have WWII and the Cold War, which would definitely affect the way people lived.

Bye for now!  I look forward to discussing this with you further in the future.