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+Holden Rohrer (00:45--01:30)
+Wroblewski
+AP World 2nd
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+\centerline{\fourteenbf Unit 7/8 Corona-DBQ}
+% Evaluate the extent to which the global conflicts from 1914-1991
+% changed the political and economic status of states around the world.
+
+Before World War I, colonialism was at its height. Through direct and
+indirect rule, colonizers like Great Britain and France controlled
+great parts of the world, like French Indochina (Vietnam), India,
+and large parts of Africa, but revolution and independence was as
+common at the time, with the United States, many Latin American
+countries, and France revolting against old leaders and seeking
+independence, often through bloody means. The Great War changed the
+social opinion of many colonized people of their colonizers to the worse.
+Concerns about the external culture became much more prevalent, and
+states began to seek economic and political independence. The
+independence movements that sought to brought change were globally
+unified by the second world war, the Cold War, and the Cold War's many
+proxy wars (Vietnam, Korea, Israel-Palestine conflict). These wars,
+during their time created superpower-based power structures which many
+states and groups feared or worked against with non-alignment movements
+and decolonization efforts which developed free trade and more democratic
+politics while others took more authoritarian stances aligned with the
+superpowers which created significant economic development within those
+countries and their spheres.
+
+The superpower-based power structures and the authoritarian nations
+which aligned with them included China. Mao Zedong and the Communist
+Party initially destroyed the old elite, eliminating local inequality
+because peasants had enough wealth to survive on; they used strict
+authoritarian policies to ``sweep all the imperialists\dots landowners
+into their graves,'' which continued throughout the century and into
+the next because the authoritarian approach was extremely effective
+in maintaining the kind of economic growth that followed superpowers.
+Socializing movements also happened in Western bloc countries like
+Western Germany with the Marshall plan, which strengthened the
+government without creating an authoritarian power structure.
+
+The other response to superpower, nonalignment, nonviolence, and
+free trade shaped Inda, Indonesia, much of Latin America, was also
+crucially involved in the global conflicts that superpower-aligned
+nations were. The United Nations resolution to limit colonialism as
+passed by the General Assembly illustrates the free trade and
+transnational political approach which developed a system to address
+concerns about other nations' policies without the explicit interventions
+that the Soviet Union and the United States often engaged in. This GA
+document is likely posititioned towards the Soviet Union and the United
+States because it is during the Cold War when intense fears about nuclear
+armaments were very visible to the public and to non-aligned nations,
+which were endangered by potential interference, being that the
+superpowers would ``twist the arms'' of unwilling nations to join one
+side or the other, like Cambodia or intervention with the Suez Canal,
+which albeit unsuccessful was dangerous for Egypt's political situation
+since it was a non-aligned nation. Nehru's speech demonstrates the
+political situation during and after these major global conflicts,
+continued globalization. The right ``to decide its own policy and way of
+life'' was and is critical to the greatly increased global economic
+throughput visible in the modern world.
+
+Michael Adas's description of the cause of the Great War also applies
+to World War II. India, for example, was partitioned and acquired
+independence shortly after WWII because ``Gandhi's contetion'' gained
+credence even among the colonizing nations where the harm that these
+wars were doing weakened the spirit of the individual and of the state
+in democratic parts. The ``psychological bondage'' also loosened in
+Africa, where attempted pan-African movements and later terrorism
+against colonial and post-colonial power were a mainstay, and attempted
+to develop independence, but failed to develop the necessary economic
+independence beforehand, which corresponds deeply with modern globalism.
+Lenin addressing a crowd during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the
+picture of that event likely were used to improve the idea, among rulers
+rapidly losing power to independence movements and terroristic action
+that allying with a stronger nation would allow them to retain that
+power, and with the help of communism (or with capitalism in the case
+of similar American propaganda), they too could regian power over the
+people developed the Eastern bloc. This Eastern bloc wanted power over
+its people and got it, which stayed because of the strength of global
+conflict during this era---there was little option to cross the Iron
+Curtain.
+
+
+\bye