Blog Number 7# Chapters 20 and 21 Chapter 20 was an interesting one, as we progress closer to modern time it seems we’ve become more and more violent. It was interesting to see how much the Treaty of Versatile had an effect on things throughout the world. We had the great depression throughout the world, the US was just one of the last to get out of it thanks in part to FDR’s New Deal. It was also interesting to see how societies were moving towards a socialized government assisted focus. It was also interesting to see how the Second World War really more or less started because of the treaty of versatile with Germany and the beginning of Hitler. With Japan it was interesting to see just how British and Westernized they wanted to be. Its funny because it seems that Japan is still trying to Westernize and Americanize themselves today. Chapter 21 was all about revolution with the Russian and Cuban revolution as well with the strong existence of communism throughout Europe and China. To me this was an expected timeline of events. With the continuance of war throughout the world, borders were beginning to be firmly established and defended. There were no more land grabs, no more territory skirmishes, these were leading to all-out war and possible cultural extermination. Thus cultures were looking to establish and have well-grounded cultural defending governments in place to help keep them and their beliefs safe. The problem now is that with technology today people living within these communist and socialist countries are either being deprived of their rights or realizing they are being deprived of their rights.