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       Why Our World Is: China By: Abhijay Bhosale China is a country whose history is rarely referenced that far past modern day, usually reported on in the 2000s and after. The only mentions of China in American schools are when talking about Japan's conquest in Asia during World War 2. And although it's important to talk about Japan's rise to power with the effects like the atrocities at Nanjing, it's rarely shown how China grew to such power on the global scale as the 1900s grew to an end. Let's see what happened. WW2 - Turn To Communism Many people people know that China is communist, but not that many know how it occurred. The idea that's usually first gone to is that the Communists took over the government and forced the country to become communist through propaganda and suppression. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. To understand, we have to go back to WW2. Throughout WW2 China had a lot of fighting and actually helped a lot of the allies....

      Why Our World Is: Russia By: Abhijay Bhosale The second country in this series is Russia. Oftentimes paired up with everything anti-western (American, British, French, capitalist), at the height of WW2, the west and USSR, which the Russian government commanded. But after WW2, the countries started rapidly growing farther apart. Economically and politically, the divide spread throughout the world. Let's see what happened. Capitalism VS Communism and the Cold War Summary Although still it's still ind debate whether capitalism or communism is a better economic system, one thing is for sure: Capitalism was better executed than capitalism. It became especially apparent in Berlin, which at the time was split between the western countries and the USSR. The difference was major. While the capitalist side had booming business, tall buildings, and good infrastructure, the Soviet side looked drab and utilitarian. Perhaps the reason for such a difference was the principles of ...