Week 11

Chapter 20 

In the 20th century, there where many crisis and collapses of systems that were in place but were 

starting to see a negative affect in society. This consisted of the Industrial revolution, democracy, 

capitalism, and the economy. The events that were talked about was Wold War I and II, the Great 

Depression, rise of Fascism, the Holocaust/ Genocide, Hiroshima and the creation of Nuclear 

Weapons, and the cold war. With the world wars,  there was global conflict with the different 

relationships snd how alliances were created making a split wether voluntarily or forced. The war had 

created more industrialized weapons and created a new way of war called trench warfare. the great 

depression was an event that showed how capitalism failed causing an economic crash due to the 

unregulation. The rise of fascism was due to some countries needing a powerful leader to guide the 

country. This led to authoritarianism where they would work on building the people to be 

nationalistic. The holocaust is the example of this system with Hitler wanting to make a third Roman  

Empire defining what it meant to be Aryan that created a split between them and the Jews. hitler used 

his strong charismatic characteristics to persuade the people to hate the Jewish people. Hiroshima was 

the beginning of the era of nuclear weapons where the U.S. dropped two Nuclear bombs on Japan 

killing regular people that were just living their lives. Even in America, the Japanese people were 

suspected and were sent to camps. Nuclear weapons are still around today and is still causing 

conflicts. The Cold War is when the powerful countries didn't physically fight but did have conflict. 

Even today the Cold War conflicts can be seen to rise in the Middle East. 

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