Chapter 20 and 21

Chapter 20: Collapse at the Center - World War, Depression and the rebalancing of the global power 1914-1970s

• Forces of Movement:  democrats discouraged, socialists
  unprepared, communists uncooperative, and internationalists ignored.
• The Great Britan Periods of world wide economic hardship formed the backdrop against which Keynes's revolution took place.
•  WW II was a war of total destruction, genocide (Holocaust), and horror for Europe and Asia.
• That society and civilization survived and was re-created.
• The war ended in 1945,
• Cold War started between the Western Allies (Britain, France, USA) and Russia in Europe
• Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949, the Berlin Wall, 1961, and several "hot" wars in Asia
• The Korean War, 1950-1953 the Viet Nam War,
• 1945-1954 for the French, and 1959-1975 for the Americans

Chapter 21: Revolution, Socialism and Global conflict - The rise and fall of world communism

·         In 1818-1883 Karl Marx who gave the word and concept its economic and revolutionary meaning in Communist Manifesto

·         In 1870-1924 Vladimir Lenin named his socialist party the Russian Communist

·         In March 1917 Russia revolted against the Tsar

·         On November 7^th, 1917 second revolution was led by Lenin and his Bolsheviks

·         In 1918-1921 Lenin became the Communist Party leader and Soviet President, after Stalin

·         In 1921 Chinese Communist Party was founded by Mao Zedong and others

·         Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang government, the party made a 6,000 mile Long March to the mountains of northern China where they fought against the Japanese during the WW II

·         World divided into two camps in 1949 USA and its allies, and the USSR & China and their allies.

·         Europe was divided for 40 years after WW II

·         Asia divided into two camps during the Korean War