Post-War

The post war period was filled with a vast amount of uncertain details about the future of the world. The United States had a new leader in Harry Truman who was thrown into the work that Roosevelt had been doing with Stalin and Churchill. Before his death Roosevelt had managed to negotiate terms with both the Soviet Union and Britain at the Yalta Conference. However, the Yalta Conference was more a foreshadowing of potential events and reactions than it was a peace settlement. The problem that…

Post the Cold War Kenneth Waltz felt that the nature of the international system had changed with the end of bipolarity. Bipolarity can be defined as a system of world order in which the majority of global economic, military and cultural influence is held between two states. The fall of the Soviet Union displayed their inability to maintain their position and challenged the structure of international politics. Waltz believed that in the years to come, three great powers would rise. These great…

Over seventy years into the post-1945 world, and the lingering effects of the Cold War continue to shape global society to this day. When analyzing post-World War II history, historians recognize three key themes that emerged throughout the era: political ideologies and the paradoxes of their implementation; the growth of nation-states, nationalism, supranationalism, and internationalism; and tensions between individual rights and societal claims. Though each theme listed is solidified as a…

wondered what the literacy was like in Japan after World War II? How it affected their life and culture? Well, here you’ll find out the impact of writing in Post-War Japan. After the war, literature in Japan was basically on the ground, it was dead. Many authors were pressured to write and support war, and supposedly was successful for military. Various authors did not get a chance to publish their books, since they were not supporting war, or did not fit the theme of violence. “Writers with…

“Explain and evaluate two of the main post-World War II development theories (Modernization and Dependency) and highlight some of the values and forces that shaped them”. World War II ended in 1945 after Japan and Germany surrendered to the Allies and U.S.S.R. The imperial countries offered available options for their colonies, whether those nations required to remain as colonies or exited from their regimes. Thus, dependence countries were becoming decolonized from the mother countries. These…

Post-War Change In Canadian Society Canada from 1945-1982 witnessed a time of great change involving political, social and cultural development. There were both internal and external forces at the root of these changes, which held both positive and negative, long lasting and temporary effects on Canadian society. The majority of these changes occured indirectly from external forces, and have had a significant degree of impact in shaping the way we live our lives today in Canada. Three sizable…

Justice after the War or "Jus Post Bellum" is a concept of Just War Theory, which defines actions, aimed to restore peace and development, which concern the terminal phase of a war and peace agreements accepted by the international community to reconcile the parties involved in a conflict. According to (P. 160) Brian Orend: “Conceptually, war has three phases: beginning, middle and end." To my way of thinking, the end or when hostilities cease in a war, there are three entities: a winner, a…

The Civil War is America’s bloodiest war. After the Civil War, there was a lot of things that went on, and these things left a big impact on America as it is today. Starting from Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation and the slaves gaining their right to freedom, to the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to slaves. Although the Civil war is said to have ended in April of 1865, the violence did not. The violence towards blacks continued…

The Civil War had ended and Abraham Lincoln, the President of The United States at the time had just issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclamation was delivered on January 1, 1863 and it declared the freedom of slaves in the United States. The release of this document was just the start of the post-civil war era and led to many factors that contributed to racism in America not only politically but economically and socially as well. The beginning of this post-civil war era marked…

begins in a post-World War II era, beginning in the state of Alabama during the 1950s, and eventually includes the locations of Savannah, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Vietnam, and China. The movie places a heavy emphasis on the representation of the racial discourse that was apparent into the 1960s, with several references throughout scenes in the movie. The hippie and Free Love movement is also included, along with the involvement of the war in Vietnam, the escalation, and the anti-war protests…