The history of the wars of the twentieth century
Hobsbawm refers to the warm events that marked the twentieth century, where world wars were the protagonists and the United States was one of the victors with few lost. The rise of fascism and communism, and how important the atomic bombs and strategic alliances of the powers were to end World War II, in addition to the beginning of the Cold War and the disintegration of the USSR.
The Russian revolution meant an important promotion of the Soviet Union to become an economic and military power for a prolonged period, and that strengthened the socialist idea worldwide. The rise of fascism showed normally the brutal measures taken by Mussolini and Hitler, which introduced a relentless homicidal policy in the trenches and extermination fields;These doctrines sought a restructuring to improve the collapse of ancient regimes in Italy and Germany, mobilizing men to war and strengthening the concepts of anti -communism and nationalism, where racial superiority prevailed.
These wars would not have occurred if it was not for the collapse of the economy in the 30s, the axis took the situation by rearming the offensive for the beginning of World War II, mobilizing exercises against the Soviet who were financed by the allies. The revolution survived thanks to the support of the Communist Party, and the peasants, who considered that with the socialists they had better opportunities to have employment and conserve their lands;But the ideas imposed by Lenin condemned the union to suffer from isolation that caused poverty and backwardness.
The disappearance of the Burguses is accompanied by social and cultural development throughout the world, with the progress of the media such as radio and television, in addition to the cinema in the West, the capitalist idea was reactivated through propaganda and consumerism indough. Hobsbawn compares the rise of the capitalist model with the idea of the imperialism, since they hosted very well in satellite countries, where alliances were agreed to implement new economic and political systems that were alternative but continued to depend on capitalism itself.
The wars submitted to the old European powers to the power of the United States, which promoted global trade and security, forcing Western European states, and Japan to an economic restructuring, but leaving the USSR as only threats, since statesUnited declared anti -communist, which led 45 years of cold war, "an ideological civil war". With technological, scientific and nuclear advances, the world divided into blocks: oriental and western. The Soviet Union continued with the initiative to end the anti -communists of multi -party popular democracies, and created a communist international. The missile crisis in Cuba and the Berlin blockade were simultaneous events that represented the confrontation of ideals, and that almost lead to a nuclear war between the blocks. The cold war ends in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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