Massaro, Section 5 and 6

Catholic social teaching has closely followed the path mapped out by Aquians regarding property and has attempted to apply his principals to new situations in the modern world.  It also adjusted its message to account for new situations and needs that place prudent limits on property holding and therefore has issues stern warnings against unlimited acquisition of wealth.  The creator intends the common gift of the earth to be used for the nourishment and sustenance of all God's children.  A proper understanding of property must also adjust to these changed circumstances.  Catholic social teaching forthrightly contends that a world without labor unions would witness a much less favorable environment for achieving justice and an equitable sharing of earth's resources.  Human labor also carries theological significance, as it contains the human response to he God who invites all people to become cocreators of the material world.

Strayer, Chapter 22 (pp. 659-674)

The rise of communism was world wide and spread fast.  Communist regimes came to power almost everywhere in the tumultuous wake of war, revolution, and more.  Then came to rise of communism in Russia, "soviets" and it started out as agricultural.  Then it spread to Eastern Europe for the desire of a better zone.  The rise of communism in China came around 1949 and took twenty-eight years to triumph while Russia did theirs sooner.  China was also agricultural and they then formed the CCP Chinese Communist Party and later gained a leader named Mao and later become big and trumped.  Russia and China took ideas from the Enlightenment and built modern industrial society, totalitarian organization.

Strayer, Introduction to Part Six and Chapter 21

The twentieth-century histories of the western world, the communist world, and the third world not only paralleled one another but also frequently interested and overlapped.  Perhaps there is enough that is new about the twentieth century to treat it, tentatively, as a distinct era in human history, but only what happens next will determine how this most recent century will be understood by later generations. The collapse of the world, the World War.  Europe had assumed an increasingly prominent position on the global stage, driven its growing military capacity and the marvels of its Scientific and Industrial revolutions.  The outbreak of the war was an accident, in that none of the major states planned or predicted the archduke's assassination or deliberately sought a prolonged conflict.  The collapse of the German, Russian, and Austrian empire emerged a new map of Central Europe.  Then came the Nazi's and Hilters rule.  Then started the World War II.  The tragedies that afflicted in the first of the twentieth century-fratricidal war, economic collapse, the Holocaust-were wholly self-inflicted, and yet despite the sorry and desperate state of the heartland, Europe.

Strayer, Chapter 20 (pp. 607-614)

Education often provided social mobility and elite status within their own communities and an opportunity to achieve, or at least approach, equality with whites in racially defined societies.  Many such people ardently embraced European culture, dressing in European clothes, speaking French or English, building European-style and ways.  Religion too provide the basis for new or transformed identities during the colonial era.  The young, the poor, and many women all of them oppressed groups in many African societies, found new opportunities and greater freedom in some association with missions.

Strayer, Chapter 20 (pp.586-606)

If the measure of success is national wealth and power, then the Industrial Revolution was a great accomplishment.  Rather then the preservation of the environment, spiritual growth, and the face-to-face relationships of village life, and then the Industrial Revolution would be considered a disaster.  This is all important for people to understand good judgment and wise choices, needed to make better decisions for the future.  No single colonial experience characterized the two countries across this vast region.  Men and women experienced the colonial era very differently, as well as traditional elites, Western-educated classes, urban artisan, peasants farmers, and migrant laborers.  The construction of these second-wave European empires in the Afro-Asian world, like empires everywhere, military forces, and the threat of using it.  Economies of Coercion: Forced Labor and the Power of the State, many young children and adults were punished  and were victims of brutal regime of forced labor undertaken in the Congo during the late 19th century.