Cold War

Military Conflict and the Cold War 

Eastern Europe fought with America and British desired for open and democratic societies with capitalist world economic. There was division between Eastern and Western Europe, but war does not happened between the two sides. However, in Asia during the Cold War, the Communist was globalizing China, Korea, and Vietnam and it led to dangerous War. In Vietnam, Communist military took control over Southern Vietnam, but the United States was helping Northern Vietnam to have democracy. Soviet and China wanted Vietnam to be Communist nation. Many many people died in Vietnam war. Eventually, Communist took control over Vietnamese in 1975. 

During the Cold War era, Afghanistan had the third major military conflict. Soviet leader were happy at this extension of Communism on the Southern border, but Afghan women isolated on this conservation that led to opposition movement. In 1989, Soviet forces withdrew Afghan into Communist. 

Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry

Nuclear Weapons was the most novel and dangerous factor of the Cold War. When World War II ended, America was the powerful nation. American control those weapons. During those decades the world moved from a ordinary handful of nuclear weapons to a global weapon stores. A single boom in single prompt destroy major city in the world. Many people around the world lived in the shadow of powerful and dangerous weapons. Cold War was the worries the Communist penetration prompted involvement. Superpower support the third world countries. Some countries like Indonesia got the aid from Eastern Europe, but they did not stopped destroying the Indonesian Communist Party. 

The United States: Superpower of the West, 1945-1975

The United States play a global role after World War II in many ways. It is the powerful nation in the world where there are strong economically and politically. The United States have had more then 1,000,000 soldiers in 30 countries. Most of the secret decision making happen in the United States with a "imperial" presidency and a "national security states." In 1919's the US has been the industrial society. Since the United export goods to abroad, "The whole world is hungry of American goods." 

Colonial Encounters

How a first wave is different from a second wave of European Conquest?
          A first wave happened between 1492 to 1700 and it was in North and South American.
Spain and Portugal were the colonies and there was a massive demographic impact. In America, there was "The Great Dying," where majority of Native people died. That is because the Europeans' introducing diseases into the native tribes. The tribes did not have immunity to these diseases, so many, many people died. The Europeans' were determined to come to American because God, Gold, and Glory. However, most of the Europeans' stayed here in America permanently. Moreover, these Europeans' influence Christianity to native people. 
      On the other hand, a second wave happened between 1750 to 1950 and it was in Asia and Africa. Germany  Japan. the United States, Italy, and Belgium are the country that got involved in second wave. The Europeans' tried control by economic power and the military force and they were likely to cause war. The interesting fact was that in a second wave there was insignificant demographic impact, but in a first wave there was huge demographic impact. These Europeans'  did not colonized permanently. The Europeans' work with local leaders, at the same time they introduce capital market, labor, and trading their natural resources. In nineteen century, the British take over Austria and  New Zealand and it was very similar to earlier colonization.

Apartheid: Apartheid was a system of racial separation which happened from 1848 to 1994, in South Africa. Apartheid was developed in World War II. The Europeans colonized South Africa. Before Europeans' colonized South Africa, the word like race or people with color, such as black, brow, and white.did not exist Later there was racial difference between people from different tribe. During that period of time the white people ruled South Africa. However, the South Africans did not had right and they had their own separate place. For example, South African needed a pass laws to work. This study shows us that the Europeans' colonized many countries around the world by force and some of the things last permanently and some did not.