All of this resonated widely, enabling the Nazis to win 37 percent of the vote in the election of 1932
Another part of the Nazis' rise to power is how fractured the left leaning opposition was with the Socialist and communist parties not wanting to work with the moderate center-left parties. This helped spilt the vote enough for Hitler to consolidate his base and get more votes than anyone else.
Experience soon showed that Japan’s concern was far more for Asia’s resources than for its liberation and that Japanese rule exceeded in brutality even that of the Europeans.
This brutality was really shown in Korea and parts of China, especially when it came to the sexual violence they inflicted on women and children.
Non-Russian nationalists in Ukraine, Poland, Muslim Central Asia, and the Baltic region demanded greater autonomy or even independence.
This type of Social conflict was foundational to Karl Marx's conflict theory that influenced his communist views
Women were urged to leave the factory work they had taken up during the war and return to their homes, where they would not compete against returning veterans for “men’s jobs.”
This is interesting because this type of freedom was new for middle class women but poor women were often forced into “mens jobs”. I wonder if they were also urged to leave
But they have also eroded the face-to-face relationships of village life, undermined the comforts of religious belief, and generated massive environmental changes — global warming in particular — that pose severe threats to modern societies.
I never thought about how the rapid improvements to science could have impacted the way people interacted with erosion and the peace of mind it brought
After all, the Islamic world had earlier hosted impressive scientific achievements and had incorporated elements of Greek philosophical thinking.
This stuck out to me because they rarely got credit for being the inspiration for Greek philosophy in any of my previous history classes.
Furthermore, the Chinese were forbidden to use the character for “barbarians” to refer to the British in official documents.
This is interesting that they didn’t want dehumanizing language used for them but would call other cultures in Africa and South Asian uncivilized and barbaric
Western military support for pro-Qing forces likewise contributed to their victory.
This made wonder why western forces helped the Qing as much as they did considering that the leader of the rebellion was closer to the west religiously