HIST 2211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Critical Role, Steam Engine, Economic Reconstruction
12 Sep 2016
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Glimpse of a damaged world but also the first signs of a world rebuilding. 1945 marked a distinct shift in contemporary global history, the ending of one era and the beginning of another. Gave way to 2 powers instead of multiple- ussr and the us. Other powers were involved in other costly conflicts. Both leaders called for nothing less than a basic overhaul of the international regime. Each challenge the european-dominated international system and the legitimacy of states organized around outmoded political, economic and social principles. Wilson believed that the internal composition of countries vote a critical relationship both to the right and well-being of their citizens and to harmony within the international community. Added into how the transition from capitalism to socialism would occur. Major capitalist countries had: economic periphery, lenin imagined his bolshevik revolution of 1917 as the first break in the capitalist chain of control.
