Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict: The Rise and Fall of World Communism 

- 1917– now

- Marxism's path to the future

- there were conflicts among communist states

- revolutions as a path to communism

- Russia: revolution in a single year

- there was continued chaos under the provisional government

- civil war happened (1918-1921)

- Stalin in Eastern Europe after world war II

- In China there was a prolonged revolutionary struggle

- gave women more rights

- there were laws for 

- equality

- work

- education

- marriage

- divorce

- pregnancy

- abortions

- men and women were somehow equalish

- "women can do anything"

- Cold War

- its a cold war because there wasn't really any fighting

- imperial presidency it was like a "milirary industrial complex"

- American economic and cultural power

- military spending and propaganda

- there were conflicts with the communist world

- there were "Hot Wars" in Korea and Vietnam

- End of Communism

- China abandoned Communism

- worst fear

- message of Tianamen Square (1989)

- Nationalist movements

- collaspe of regimes in Eastern Europe (1989)

- USSR becomes russia and other states (1991)