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While reading the chapter I read this one section that really stood out for me and I think it would help me remember this chapter a little bit more better and it says, "When most people speak of globalization, they are referring to the immense acceleration in international economic transactions that took place in the second half of the twentieth century and continued into the twenty first. Many have come to see this process as almost natural, certainly inevitable, and practically unstoppable. yet the first half of the twentieth century, particularly the decades between the two world wars, witnessed a deep contraction of global economic linkages as the after math of world war 1 and the great depression wreaked havoc on the world economy. international trade, investment, and labor migration dropped sharply as major states turned inward, favoring high tariffs and economic autonomy in the face of a global econmoic collapse". So out of the book it talks about major events that cau...

. The end of empire:   "Nelson Mandela, south Africas nationalist leader, first uttered these words in 1964 at his trial for treason, sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid government of his country. convicted of those charges, he spent the next twenty- seven years in prison, some times working at hard labor in a stone quarry. often the floor was his bed and a bucket was his toilet. for many years, he was allowed one visitor a year for thirty minutes and permitted to write and receive one letter every six months. when he was finally realized from prison in 1990 under growing domestic and international pressure, he concluded his first speech as a free person with the words originally spoken at his trial. four years later, in 1994, South Africa held its first election in which black and whites alike were able to vote. the outcome of that election made Mandela the county first black African come of that election made Mandela the country first black Africa an president, a...

"An upstanding soviet citizen entered a medical clinic one day and asked to see an ear and eye doctor. asked about his problem the man replied well I keep hearing one thing and seeing another. a frenchman an Englishman and a soviet Russian are admiring a panting of Adam and eve in the garden of eden. the frenchman sys they must be French there naked and. they're eating fruit. the Englishman says clearly there English observe how politely the woman is offering fruit to the man. the Russian replies, no they are Russian communists of course. they have no house, nothing to wear little to eat and they think they are in paradise. these are two of an endless array of jokes that had long circulated in the Soviet Union as a means of expression in private what could not be said in public". "communism was a phenomenon of enormous significance in the world of the twentieth century. communist regimes came to power almost every where in the tumultuous wake of war, revoultion or ...

"dividing up time into coherent segments periods, eras, ages is the way historians mark amor changes in the lives of individuals, local communities, social groups, nations, and civilizations and also in the larger story of human kind as a whole. because all such divisions are artificial, imposed by scholars in a continuously flowing stream of events, they are endlessly controversial and never more so than in the case of the twentieth century. to many historians that century and a new era in the human journey began in 1914 with the out break of the world war one. that terrible conflict, after all represented a fratricidal civil war within western civilization, triggered the Russian revolution and the beginning of work communism, and stimulated many in the colonial world to work for their own independence. and the way it ended set the stage for an even more terrible struggle in world war 2. but does the century since 1914 represent a separate phase of world history, granting it that...