Chapter 22:The Rise and Fall of World Communism

This chapter goes through how communism became popular in the eastern hemisphere of the world. The original ideas of Karl Marx helped spark the ideas of what communism will look like. Of course various countries (Soviet Union and China) took it upon themselves to make a plan of what communism would look like for their country, what it would do for their country, and how it may help them rise to the top. After the World Wars, they caused a lot of fusion between the winning alliances. During this chapter, we can see a border form between America and the use of the world. They were seen as the ones to get involved with political matters that aren't or weren't their own. Countries like Cuba had leaders such as Fidel Castro stand up to Americanized Cuban government and create a communist movement in order to get rid of the "repressive" ways of the Americans. As we can see in present day Cuba, America won that battle, but what for? This seems to always be the case when it comes to America, always getting involved in political and military matters that aren't our own. We should be known as the "ball-out" nation, because in almost every war that wasn't America's own, the U.S. seemed to have some part in helping the citizens of oppression or was the oppressor. Communism just seemed like another way for countries getting away from the American political norm, capitalism.