One of the most interesting facts that really brought up my attention during my reading was that in comparison to World War 1, World War 2 has more civilian casualties. This was a big fact for me because it demonstrates how significant the “hot war” was during that time and how many lives had to suffer for that. But on another note, I think it is important to note how bigger countries use support from smaller third world countries with military and economic aid. This made those smaller countries powerful with a defense and backup from a stronger country.

In these chapters it also brought to my attention how globalization affected many of Americans. It caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, while others became wealthy. This created a bigger gap in between classes. It made fewer people richer and poorer.

It was also interesting to read about the environmental movements in our country. First of all, we all know that there is global warming that is becoming an issue with us sustaining a renewable energy source. We have polluted our environment so heavily due to economic gain. I thought it was interesting how western environmentalist were more concerned about pollution and limiting growth, whereas environmentalist in developing countries were more concerned with food security and social justice. This made me realize how life in other countries is not as fair as it is here. There are many third world countries that are still fighting for their right to public assistance and social justice, freedom of speech. However, there are bigger issues that must also be discussed were everyone needs to be on the same page about saving our environment if we want to live on this planet for a long time.

World communism is on the most fascinating topics to me. Because there is so much depth as to what really is and what different countries fought for makes it that more interesting to me. First of all, I think that is very extreme how the Berlin Wall was built to segregate two part of the county. I remember watching a video in high school that showed how happy the people of Berlin were when the wall got knocked down. It signified such a change and diversity. On the most interesting topics to me when it comes to communism is how much influence some of these political leaders such as Fidel Castro had during the red scare. Fidel Castro is one of the most influential leaders of the communist revolutionary leader. Communism hits very close to home for me. During this time a lot of my family still resided in Central America and faced these ongoing battles of the cold war or what we call the red scare. Many of the soul factors of communism foundation fall sunder the distribution of goods equally to a society, which in many ways seems like it would only be fair. However, the fact that leaders behind this revolutionary movement felt that it was ok to take over by any means necessary really impacted much of the world. Because of this impact, the national security state was founded which created a lot of support to other countries to fight back against the communist revolutionaries. In my opinion, one of the laps of the communist movement was the lack of inequality when it comes to power and regime. Giving people equal access to goods but no allowing them make democratic is what caused these wars.