Examples Of Post World War 2 Globalization
Post World War II Globalization
Since the end of World War II over seventy years ago, America has gained some major influences in the areas of economics, cultural, politics, and in the military but it has also gone through some major challenges as well. During the six years the world battled, millions of lives were lost until finally the Axis powers of Japan and Germany surrendered to the Allied forces. Suddenly America stood at the front of the world as the dominant power and it was a moment of great opportunity for Americans.
Militarily the United States looked at the approaches it took when responding to World Wide events and protecting its borders. When looking at the international affairs and the domestic reforms, the liberalism of the John F. Kennedy’s and Andrew Johnson’s administrations dictated a more aggressive and active response when dealing with national problems than we did in the past up to the 1950s. Kennedy looked at ways to increase our nation’s ability to meet communist threats, so the Special Forces or Green Berets were formed. With the development of the Cold War, Americas relations with Latin America were greatly affected (Brinkley, 689). This greatly increased the readiness of the Unites States to intervene in military affairs and concerns of the Cold War. …show more content…
Globalization following World War II was not just an economic phenomenon, but it was also political, military, and environmental as well (Lindsay, 2003). Nor was this type of globalization new, these types of globalization actually spanned the continents at a rapid rate many decades even before the First World War due to the invention of the steam engine reducing transportation costs and the invention of the telegraph which greatly reduced the communication cost. What makes globalization today different though is the speed and the volume of contacts we have with other
Since the end of World War II over seventy years ago, America has gained some major influences in the areas of economics, cultural, politics, and in the military but it has also gone through some major challenges as well. During the six years the world battled, millions of lives were lost until finally the Axis powers of Japan and Germany surrendered to the Allied forces. Suddenly America stood at the front of the world as the dominant power and it was a moment of great opportunity for Americans.
Militarily the United States looked at the approaches it took when responding to World Wide events and protecting its borders. When looking at the international affairs and the domestic reforms, the liberalism of the John F. Kennedy’s and Andrew Johnson’s administrations dictated a more aggressive and active response when dealing with national problems than we did in the past up to the 1950s. Kennedy looked at ways to increase our nation’s ability to meet communist threats, so the Special Forces or Green Berets were formed. With the development of the Cold War, Americas relations with Latin America were greatly affected (Brinkley, 689). This greatly increased the readiness of the Unites States to intervene in military affairs and concerns of the Cold War. …show more content…
Globalization following World War II was not just an economic phenomenon, but it was also political, military, and environmental as well (Lindsay, 2003). Nor was this type of globalization new, these types of globalization actually spanned the continents at a rapid rate many decades even before the First World War due to the invention of the steam engine reducing transportation costs and the invention of the telegraph which greatly reduced the communication cost. What makes globalization today different though is the speed and the volume of contacts we have with other