ch. 20 pg 973-1017

Collapse at the Center
 In this chapter Strayer talks about the first world War and the civilization crisis in 1914-1918. The first world war, was the beginning stage in the collapse of what the Europeans have built for themselves, and their global dominance after the first world War, the great depression hit right away, causing even more damage to society. nobody had any hope for a better day, and everything was at its absolute worst and lowest after a period of greatness. Also the threat of communism arose from the Russians directed toward Britain, France, and the United States. Now the idea of facism spread across europe like wildfire. the idea to purify the nation and it was a complete nationalistic movement. But that only caused many more problems like hitler in Germany. Then the second world war started. Mainly it was a global conflict between independent origins of Asia and Europe. After two world wars, a depression, economic collapse, and things like the holocaust Europe was shattered. In the 20th century europe started to recover. They rebuilt their industrial economies and revived their democratic political systems, while the United States took on a dominating role globally.