The rest of the world also did relatively great as well, especially towards the end of that time frame after colonialism and then the Cold War. You see lots of footage from Vietnam and Afghanistan, but only because “everything fine in Namibia” isn’t a headline.
How are we defining rest of the world here because China, India and Africa make up nearly 50% of the human population and things were really not great, especially for the first 40 to 50 years after WW2.
That was a definite contributing factor, but obviously there was more to Nazism than that, or Neville Chamberlain would have been right. And Italy didn’t lose WWI or even stay on the same side through it. Edit: And Japan wasn’t there.
One side combined Communists and the traditional colonial empires Marx wrote about. The other was upstart Fascists blending capitalism with a kind of feudal logic.
Best of luck everyone. We had a good run. Prepare or the Forever War.
Yeah, it really was an exceptional time between 1945 and 2020.
For western Europe, the rest of the world begs to differ.
The rest of the world also did relatively great as well, especially towards the end of that time frame after colonialism and then the Cold War. You see lots of footage from Vietnam and Afghanistan, but only because “everything fine in Namibia” isn’t a headline.
How are we defining rest of the world here because China, India and Africa make up nearly 50% of the human population and things were really not great, especially for the first 40 to 50 years after WW2.
Namibia would be an Africa example, although the decolonisation period was probably as rocky as anywhere. India did alright after the same.
China had Mao problems, of course, but then Deng on and the rapid ascent to global power is also in the period considered.
People really think this is the first time this is happening and how it wasn’t way way worse just some decades ago
we’ve been in it since ww1. every “downtime” space between subsequent had simply been “cold war” and capitalism prepping for the next phase.
WWII defies that description pretty directly.
does it? the reason it popped off was because some folks were pissed ww1 failed.
That was a definite contributing factor, but obviously there was more to Nazism than that, or Neville Chamberlain would have been right. And Italy didn’t lose WWI or even stay on the same side through it. Edit: And Japan wasn’t there.
One side combined Communists and the traditional colonial empires Marx wrote about. The other was upstart Fascists blending capitalism with a kind of feudal logic.