Found 175 Articles for World History

Cold War: Impact on India

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 01-Feb-2023 11:35:49

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IntroductionBetween 1939 and 1945, the Second World War commenced. The Allied and Axis forces are the two main factions that participated in this conflict. The Cold War, which involved both the Soviet Union and the United States, began after the Second World War. After the second global war is over, there are only two powers left. The globe would become bipolar as a result. The US and USSR blocs are thus split in the global conflict. Causes of the Cold War To overthrow Nazi Germany, France, and the United States joined forces. Immediately after Operation Barbarossa, when Nazi ... Read More

Causes & Course of World War II

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 01-Feb-2023 11:26:50

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Introduction A global battle identified as World War II raged from 1939 until 1945. The large majority of the world's nations engaged in warfare as supporters of the Allies and the Axis, two opposing military organisations. The Second Sino-Japanese War, Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the growth of fascism across Europe, and the escalating anxieties in Europe since World War I have all been contributory catalysts to World War II. On September 3, 1939, the United Kingdom and France announced war on Germany. Old photo of cannon from the time of World War II The Two Groups: ... Read More

Arab nationalism

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 01-Feb-2023 10:32:12

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IntroductionThe fundamental tenet of Arab nationalism is the population of Arabs, which covers from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. This is one community united by shared ethnicity, tradition, history, personality, geography, and geopolitics. The abolition of the Arab regimes thought to be based on Western power and the termination of Western intervention in the Arab world are two of Arab nationalism's key focuses. It gained prominence when the Ottoman Empire was abolished and defeated at the beginning of the 20th century. It lost influence when the Arab troops lost the Six-Day War. History Arab conservatives think that the ... Read More

Ancient Egypt-Concept of life and death

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 12-Apr-2023 09:23:54

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Introduction Two traditions that have been widespread in early Egypt had a big consequence on how cremation is regarded in all other cultures. Firstly, the notion of a dead and resurrected rescuer deity who may grant adherents eternity. The other was the theory of a post-mortem assessment. That indicated whatever occurred to the accused in the conclusion would rely on how well he survived. Many reports say that the Egyptian community was split into three categories the living, the divine, and the buried. Throughout their historic range, the historical Egyptians spent a substantial quantity of effort studying death and making ... Read More

Aftermath & Analysis of World War II

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 31-Jan-2023 16:47:36

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Introduction Most parts of Europe and Asia were destroyed after the end of World War II. New borders, overthrown power, and funerals were happening simultaneously. The war of the Axis against the Allied forces took over 80 million lives in just ten years, which is a decline of 4% of the world's population. Attempts were undertaken to permanently weaken those countries' ability to conduct war as industries were destroyed, and former leadership was overthrown or prosecuted. Many Future issues arose from Allied occupations and United Nations and their scars were long-lasting. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a museum ... Read More

Rise of the Communist Party of China

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 31-Jan-2023 15:56:10

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Introduction The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the People's Republic of China's founding and sole ruling party (PRC). The CCP won the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang under Mao Zedong's leadership, and Mao declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Since then, the CCP has ruled China with the help of eight smaller parties in a united front, and it has complete control of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Each successive CCP leader has added their theories to the party's constitution, which outlines the party's ideological beliefs, collectively ... Read More

Rise of China

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 31-Jan-2023 15:41:19

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Introduction In 1978, China’s economy witnessed dramatic changes due to the government’s major economic reforms. The government allowed the formation of rural businesses or ownerships. It invested in educating the workforce, encouraged the development of private business and increased industrial production. The government of China also created four special economic zones or SEZs to attract investment from foreign countries and to start importing high-technology goods into China. One of the important economic reforms was to decentralise economic control and allow the implementation of free market principles. China’s economic rise led it to an annual GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of 9.5% ... Read More

Post-Lenin Russia

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 31-Jan-2023 15:27:59

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Introduction In the year 1917, one of the great historical wars, the Russian Revolution, took place. The war was held during the final or last phase of the first World War. Russia was removed or thrown out of the war, and it brought a huge change or transformation of the Russian Empire or dynasty into the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, replacing or transforming Russia’s traditional (conventional) monarchy with the world’s very first Communist state. The new government formed or established was led or headed by Vladimir Lenin, he solidifies his power or strength only after three years ... Read More

Marxian Communism

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 31-Jan-2023 15:15:01

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Introduction Karl Marx is a name that tops the list of the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century. He, along with Friedrich Engels, propagated Marxism. Marx is often said to have revived materialism with a new interpretation, connecting it with human history and the human past in an eccentric way. Further, social class served as a key historical factor and actor in the Marxist interpretation. The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) was written by Marx and Engels in 1848 and served as the platform for communism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Communism rose from the socialist ... Read More

League of Nations

Praveen Varghese Thomas
Updated on 31-Jan-2023 15:04:00

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Introduction The League of Nations is an international organisation founded on January 10, 1920, at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers at the end of World War I. As the years passed and peace seemed no closer, an ever-increasing public demand grew for some method to be found to prevent the renewal of the suffering and destruction that were now seen as an unavoidable part of modern war. The force of this demand was so strong that, just a few weeks after the start of the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, a unanimous agreement was reached ... Read More

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