Chapter Twenty-One: Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict

"Ways of the World"

Chapter Twenty-One: Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict 

The Rise and Fall of World Communism

1914-Present

Interesting enough I distinctively remember this chapter from high school. And I knew this for certain when I saw one of the documents in the back, which will be on the next blog. So be on the look out! Kidding it will most likely be posted once I post this. 

So the only thing I found intriguing this chapter, aside from the documents, was the section named "Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry" on page 1056. Mostly because I'm more so into the sciences, excluding math, so physics, astronomy, ext. 

This section has this photo of 'The Hydrogen Bomb' captioned: "During the 1950's and early 1960's, test in the atmosphere of ever larger and more sophisticated hydrogen bombs made images of enormous fireballs and mushroomed clods the universal symbol of these weapons, which were immensely more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. the American test pictured  here took place in 1957."

I found it amazing how after the bombs dropped in World War Two the race it created for nuclear weaponry. Within the next forty years nuclear weapons moved from a mere handful to a global arsenal close to 60,000 warheads! With all that the entire population of the Earth could be destroyed in the event of a nuclear war. I believe they phrased it as "extinction of the human species under such conditions..." (1057)