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diff --git a/wroblewski-world/dbq.tex b/wroblewski-world/dbq.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7a9769 --- /dev/null +++ b/wroblewski-world/dbq.tex @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +\font\fourteenbf=cmb10 at 14pt + +{\parindent=0pt +Holden Rohrer (00:45--01:30) +Wroblewski +AP World 2nd +\number\year-\number\month-\number\day} +\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 |