World History

This section starts off with explaining a new part of history. We have been focusing on colonialism and now we will be looking at the wars in Europe, Japanse attack on Pearl Harbor, the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the communist revolution in China, The Cuban Missile crisis/ the Cuban revolution, Latin America from military dictatorships to democracy, Allende and socialism in Chile, "Brazilian miracle",Korean war,  Iran Revolution, end of Apartheid, Israel revolution, African independence from colonialism, Indian Pakistani independence, Indonesian independence,  the rise and falling of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, European Union, Arab uprising, Vietnam war, U.S civil rights movement, Oritests against WTO, Mass migration to the United States, and 9/11 terroist attacks. (1914-2015). Chapter 20  Thee collapse at the center: world war, depression, and the Rebalancing of Global power. All of this took place from 1914 through the 1970s. The first...

Chapter 19 This chapter is about China, the Ottoman Empire, Japan, Persia (now Iran), Ethiopia, and Siam (currently Thailand), and Latin America. All of these places tried to get out of European colonial powers. Europe did not treat the countries they had power over right. They would change everyone's cultures to the European ways. This chapter looks closely specifically at China. It goes into Chian`s century crisis with King George III of Britain. The British took over pretty much everything. By Britain taking over it made China`s inner conflict worse. Then on top of that, they had Western pressures to become more modern and go by western philosophies... which failed. Then it goes on to the Lin zexu and confronting the Opium trade. The Opium trade is when western countries exported Opium grown in India and sold it to China. The Europeans used the profits from the sale of opium to buy Chinse goods (porcelain, silk, tea) were all popular in the West.  It goes on to talk about th...

3-14-18 Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania  (1750-1914) This chapter is about the colonial era. African Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders were ruled by the British, Fench, Germans, Italians, Belgians, Portuguese, Russians, or Americans. All of this took place in the 19th century. This chapter went over all of the European political views and ideas that took over the world during the colonial era.  Industry and Empire. Strayer mentions the impact the Industrial Revolution had. It brought a new look to the economic needs of the nations. Europe needed raw materials like Meat from Argentina, Wheat from American Midwest and Southern Russia, bananas from Central America, rubber from Brazil, and cocoa and palm oil from West Africa.  Strayer states: "Promises to solve the class conflicts of an industrializing society while avoiding revolution or the serious redistribution of wealth" when explaining imperialism. This philosophy was popular in all o...