intro pt 6 ch 20

Alyssa Barranti 

This chapter covers the impact of colonization over two centuries. Action of the Europeans led to Asia's tension with western countries. Many countries are shaped the way they are because of these actions. It covers the great depression and how bank closures resulted in a high rise of unemployment. During this war, america was producing more goods than it could sell and colonies were hit hard as goods were not causing the value of the exports to decrease. In South America, military take overs occurred often to free themselves from foreign interest. The US relied on the new deal to get them out of the depression and people were given jobs to work in the public projects. Along with this, social security was created as well as welfare programs to help the rising poor population. However, this new deal was not successful and the second world war was what ended up helping them get out of the depression. Along with this chapter, it covers many different aspects of religion and social and political references. This chapter also covers racism and how it started within italy as they felt they did not deserve what they got during the war. Unhappy and unemployed veterans helped Mussolini come into power. Hiter came into power by coming over the radio and taking down his opponents. He ordered policies that didn't allow jews to be allowed in peoples homes and basically turned everyone against the jews by making them seem like barbaric people. Through out the next chapter, it covers much of the modern history we have learned today. Such as the first world war, and developments of Europe as well as the wars in Asia. This chapter covers also world war two, and how the wars resulted in reaching Asia. It covers many topics we learned in our history such as the outcomes of these two world wars, the holocaust, hiroshima, and how european nations recovered from the war.

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