Post-World War II baby boom

The beginning of globalization in the 1980s-90s occurred simultaneously with the shift in China and Russia from a central planning economy to a trade-driven market economy. The Chinese leadership consciously embraced globalization, and saw it as an opportunity rather than a threat. The reaction in Russia was not like that of China, since during the 1990s Russia seemed to be suffering from the impact of globalization. Both Russia and China have emerged from the transition to global capitalism as…

The demise of the Soviet Union would seem to be a victory for the Soviet West because they had lived under the communist rule for so long they did know realize how different their lives were than their eastern counterparts. When The East was eventually allowed to cross the boarders into the West, many people realized that their visitors, who were all doing well off financially, had a better standard of living than they had. While one would think this was a victory for the West, it was not a…

In the featured mural “Man at the Crossroads,” the artist, Diego Rivera, justifies his thesis on a world in utter social turmoil. During the early 1900s, social upheaval spread across the world like wildfire, with a particular focus on WWI and WWII as a method of change in government. The mural addresses issues that Rivera has seen as not only his political views, but a means to move forward to the future. Therefore, Rivera addresses this fact in the title of his piece, there is a crossroad…

and strong emotive renderings of her subjects. Kollwitz is best associated with socialist political leanings and a sympathy towards the working classes that she chooses to manifest in her work like with the Weavers Revolt cycle. With the advent of World War I and the loss of her son, Peter, to the battlefield, we begin to see someone using her art to express the struggle…

Reading a standard American history textbook from cover to cover, one would likely not run across many references to the natural world. Occasionally the author mentions the influence of mineral discoveries, or devastating natural disasters such as earthquakes and dust storms, but never how the environment molded the societies that developed within it. Ted Steinberg’s Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History is a noticeable departure from this methodology. His ambitious goal is simple,…

movements of the Sixties were global. The “long 1960s,” the period that stretched from 1954 to 1975, followed the second World War of the century; even the name connotes the new scale of the world. People could be interconnected, especially as new technologies could communicate liberal philosophies across the globe. White students living in American cities could read “Third World” liberation theories and find applicability in their own self-styled liberation movements. 1968 in particular was a…

husband be? He is off fighting in World War II. She wonders if there is any way possible for her to possibly support her husband, and the millions of Americans who are overseas. Suddenly she recalls seeing a poster on her walk home. It read, “STAMP ‘EM OUT! BUY U.S. STAMPS AND BONDS.” Advertisements such as this were posted all around America. The purpose of advertisements was to increase support for the war, sell war bonds, and to boost American morale. During World War II, the United States…

Throughout the entirety of the world and human civilization there has been war. General Ulysses S. Grant once said ”seek peace, but prepare for war”. From the beginning of the 19th century to the present day, the United States has been economically involved with multiple wars. The major economic effecting wars being our Civil War between the Union and Confederacy over slavery. World War one or " The great war" where the United States introduced a draft system drastically increasing the size of…

An American woman in the war seems normal to us now, but it wasn’t normal in the begging of World War II. I find it crazy that we didn’t want women in the war alongside the men. I think finally adding us, women into the war helped tremendously to the war effort. We could and still can do anything that those men were doing in the war. Many women wanted the opportunity just like the men to be able to protect and serve the United States. In matter of fact 350,000 American women served in…

in World War II. For the Germans, the defeat in France undermined their whole position in Western Europe because it demanded the transfer of forces from the Eastern front. If this invasion had failed, the war would have certainly lengthened. Without transferring troops to the Western Front, Germans could have possibly had enough manpower on the Eastern front to halt the Soviet advance. Then if the Russians were still victorious over the Germans without the help of the United States, the world…