Present+World+History

The Newest Stage of World History 1914-Present

Trigger 1- The collapse of European imperial dominance and decolonization. This was due to the fact that the Cold War was starting in the battle between communism and capitalism. Trigger 2- Massive technological innovation. This was also largely due to the Cold War as this competition between the most powerful nations of the world created better technology. Trigger 3- The demographic explosion. This was due to the booming economy and the technology that called for better medical advancements. Revolutions in some countries and decolonization in many created the necessity for political innovation. The 20th century would toss up several possibilities: wider use of some sort of democracy; totalitarian governments- communists or facist- seeking as full control over society as possible; or new forms of authoritarianism, including one-party rule. There were areas that still tried to sell raw products. Many regions made sure that gender relations remained the same. Many regions tried to combine new with old traditions. People put emphasis on expressing feelings instead of putting them on the back burner, which helped to fuel the reforms and revolutions of the era. There were trends in the amount of war and the fact that people hated war.
 * __Triggers for Change__**
 * __The Big Changes__**
 * __Continuity__**
 * __Impact on Daily Life__**
 * __Societies and Trends__**

Great War India Part 2 Middle East Nationalism Africa The West China Russia In Depth Vacation Japan and Pacific Rim

9. In Russia and in China, both communist parties would come to dominate the political field and both would face resistance, but they would both handle them in different manners.

__ In both countries, elections were only allowed to be within the Communist Party __ Lenin would start the Communist Party and Mao would start the People’s Republic of China. They both controlled the political field by being totalitarian leaders.

__Russia__ __and China both would face resistance from groups within the country.__ Russia would have the kulaks and China would have the Nationalist party. These groups were strictly against the communist tendencies of the governments

__ Russia handled the groups a lot more harsher than China __ Russia just ended up killing the people against them while China mostly just moved them out. It showed the urgency of the governments to do something against possibly being toppled.

10. In Russia and in China, we would see a great emphasis in some advancement in the peasant worker class, women in both societies managed to make advances to be equal to men although Russia emphasized a more domestic role. We see Russia develop a hate for the West and China build good relationships with the West.

__ Russia and China’s cultures developed around the common man, a way to keep the people happy. __ The arts supported or were about the worker and the peasant. This would allow the people to live blissfully ignorant under totalitarian rule

__ Women earned more equality in these two mainly male-chauvinistic countries. __ Women gained legal rights in both countries and certain customs ended. China however was more liberal as Russia was more conservative encouraging women to stay at home.

__Russia__ __isolated itself from the West as China integrated itself.__ Russia’s economy was independent of the West and China severely needed the West Russia traded with alliances but China having only alliances with the West, traded mostly with the West.