Strayer, Chapter 24 (pp. 747-755)

Global expansion, one was an explosion of human numbers, an unprecedented quadrupling of worlds, two the energy potential that we have such as fossil fuels and so on, the third is the human remaking.  The three were factors of foundations for the immense environmental transformations.  Environmentalism began in the 20th century and was the time of the  Romantic poets.  In South Korea, environmental activists were wearing masks and holding crosses to represent countries during an antinuclear protest.  Globalization of environmentalism also disclosed sharp conflicts, between the Global North and South.  In discovering meaning, or direction in history, the offenses in the past have changed the ways of the future and globalizing.

Strayer, Chapter 24 (pp. 740-747)

As many of the new discovers have been made, with feminism and branching out, came religion.  The many religions were getting passed along many places with no problems and everyone was welcomed of change.  The term "fundamentalism" is from the US where people were outraged of the talking about "scientific" approaches to the bible.  Mecca then decided to overthrow the Saudi government.  Islamic revolutionaries also took aim at hostile foreign powers.  Other religious traditions as well as believers found various ways of responding to global modernity.

Strayer, Chapter 24 (pp. 734-739)

In the 1960s everyone witnessed many unusual movements that were occurring and the emergence of a global culture of liberation.  The feminist movement changed the world of thinking of human relationships between women and men.  The feminist movement in the 1920s lost momentum in the West, but it had already gone all over the world so it was fine.  Women's movements in the South took shape around many issues but not all exactly gender based.International Feminism reached a high and everywhere women were being treated fairly and equally.

Strayer, Chapter 24 (pp. 723-734)

In the 1970s and after major capitalists such as the United States  and Great Britain abandoned as many political leaders and business people view on globalization differently.  The world trade took off from the value #57 billion in 1947 to over $7 trillion in 2001.  Money also achieved an amazing global mobility in three ways, foreign direct investment, short term movement of capital, and the personal funds of individuals.  The problematic distribution in the new wealth was during the European Industrial Revolution.  Globalization divided many countries.

Putin's Challenge

The Russians decided to move the Circassians either by death or exportation, the Circassians started out with around 2-3 million people and then later ended up having 1.5 million of their people killed.  A very small number of Circassians survived and 90 percent of the worlds 5-6 million live in global diaspora while 700,000 live in Russia but split into three parts.  The Circassians are angered that the 2014 Olympics will he held at Sochi, a resort city on the Black Sea.  It will be held on the 150th anniversary of the mass killings that have happened years ago.  That the corpses of the deceased are where they plan to dig and make the stadiums for the Olympics, in other words the games will be played on a graveyard sight.  The collapse of the Soviet Union led the Circassians rejoicing and they had realized that they gained their freedom back.

Strayer, Chapter 23

On the mid-1970s was the age of Independence for Africans, as colony after colony, with more then fifty total emerged into freedom.  There was more extended freedom struggles and the two were India and South Africa.  India was one of the first colonies to achieve independence and was a model for others to do the same, India was an inspiration.  As South Africa was one of the last to be free from the domination of whites.  In 1970s, few regimes were left among the new states of Africa, and many popular political parties went into the struggle for independence and lost many support from others.  Achieving economic development  provided great difficulty They took place by religion, ethnic group, and gender. All the countries have many stories to tell and many untold stories, with tis, many historians write from the middle of the stream.

Strayer, Chapter 22 (pp. 675-689)

The extension of communism into Asia--China, Korea, and Vietnam led the cold war and the most destructive war.  Still to this day, North Korea and South Korea are not in good terms.  In 1950s, the world was introduced to The Hydrogen Bomb and it made an image of an enormous fireball and mushroom type of image.  The United States' political and economic penetration of the world war and the cold war brought culture, music was found and many great artists wrote about what was happening ad brought everyone together.  As the communist world expanded, so too did divisions and conflicts among its various countries.