World History II Blog

2) What factors contributed to economic globalization in the second half of the twentieth century? The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a deep concentration of global economic linkages as the aftermath of World War I and then the Great Depression. This was very big damage to the world’s economy.  There was a major acceleration in international economic transactions that took place in the second half of the twentieth century and continued into the twenty-first. The "Bretton Woods system" negotiated the rules for commercial and financial dealings among the major capitalist countries, while promoting relatively free trade, stable currency values linked to the US dollar, and high levels of capital investment. The technology was a major contributor to the acceleration of economic globalization. Containerized shipping, huge oil tankers, and air express services dramatically lowered transportation costs. Later the internet provided communication for global economic i...

Daine Becerra Garcia  Professor Andrews World History II  16 April 2020 Global Pandemics Today the United States is suffering from a virus named COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. Some historical context on coronaviruses is that this virus comes from a “large family of zoonotic viruses” (Vince Mcleod). This means that these viruses are able to be transmitted from an animal to humans and can cause severe respiratory problems or just a common cold. The symptoms of the COVID-19 are dry cough, fever, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties, but this virus can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, and even death. As we know most of the people that are affected by COVID-19 are older people with health conditions like diabetes, cancer, asthma, heart disease, and lung disease. The first case of COVID-19 was discovered around December of 2019 when Dr. Zhang Jixian, the head of the respiratory department at Hubei Provincial Hospita...

3) What international circumstances and social changes contributed to the end of colonial empires? The world wars weakened Europe and it discredited any sense of European moral superiority. Both the United States and the Soviet Union opposed the older European colonial empires even as they created empire-like international relationships of their own. The United Nations provided a prestigious platform from which to conduct anticolonial agitation. All this contributed to the global illegitimacy of the empire. By the twentieth century in Asia and the mid-twentieth century in Africa, a second or third generation of Western-educated elites, mainly male, had arisen throughout the colonial world. The young men were very familiar with European culture and were aware of the gap between their values and practice. They didn’t view the colonial rule as a vehicle for their peoples’ progress as their fathers had. There were also a lot of growing numbers of ordinary people who were also receptive ...

In 2020 the world is suffering from COVID-19. There have been many global pandemics in the world and long ago there was a pandemic that killed about 5 million people around 165 AD to 180 AD. This plague known as the Antonine Plague emerged during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. This epidemic brought the spread of religions like Christianity and Mithraism and renewal in spirituality. This plague affected Asia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy, but to this day the cause of this pandemic is still unknown. Many people believe that it was smallpox or measles. This disease was brought by Roman soldiers when they returned from Mesopotamia. Rome’s army was devastated. This plague was a very rapidly spreading disease, just like COVID-19. After the outbreak, Marcus Aurelius made the requirements for membership into Athens, Greece less harsh because there weren’t many surviving upper-class Athenians. This pandemic affected many people like COVID-19 is affecting many people today. https://www.biblicalar...

Fascism is a political ideology that was founded in Europe. Fascism is against individualism, liberalism, feminism, parliamentary democracy, communism. There were many small fascist movements in Western countries but they had small political impact. Benito Mussolini, a charismatic orator & former journalist with a socialist background, used violence to gain power. There were jobless men and veterans that Mussolini used, known as the Black Shirts, who attacked striking workers and destroyed socialist newspapers. According to my research, fascism is associated with the German Nazi. Some well-known fascists are Hitler from Germany, Benito Mussolini from Italy, Francisco Franco in Spain, and Juan Perón in Argentina. All these are well-known fascists from the 20th century. The source that I found also states that when it comes to these fascists being power they do, “not always keep their early promises” ( Jessie Szalay ). This connects to that President that is in power today. Has Don...