Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Kwame Nkrumah on African Unity page 1112
Nkrumah's call for African unity reflects tensions between decolonization and the cold war, because it is a call for a nonviolent unification of the African continent. Nkrumah has undoubtedly seen the violence of the decolonization of many colonies and the impending destruction that could occur from the cold war tensions. Because of this, Nkrumah calls for a peaceful joining of the African states that will show the world that "greatness is not to be measured in stock piles of atom bombs." Nkrumah believes that if African states can peaceably unite and rise up as a respectable nation, other countries will see the effectiveness of nonviolence and will lay down their violent tendencies. He thinks Africa will be a greater nation than others because it will have risen up not through "fear, envy, and suspicion" but through "hope", "trust", and "friendship". It will not just show off its wealth and strength through nuclear arms races, but will rather have indestructible greatness because of its goodwill toward all mankind.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Conclusion of WWII
The major causes of World War II were Germany being disgruntled about their lack of territory after WWI and imperialist Japan needing resources and so invading China. I do not think the conclusion of the war resolved these things. At the end of WWII, Germany was once again split up and its territory distributed to the Allies. This approach to dealing with Germany did not work in the past but was still used anyway. In addition, the war left many European countries devastated and destitute and the same was true for Japan. After WWII Japan was left in debt and without resources once more. This loose end could have led Japan to invade China again for more resources.
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