Cold War
From the year 1968 to the present there were many events which either traumatized the world or provided a stepping stone for the different areas of success. Technology vastly affected and promoted the competition of the two most diverse systems in the world. Better known as the cold war, the competition between democratic systems and communist systems was fueled by technology. Because of the way technology had manipulated the world, both systems' leaders knew that the power to control lies with the newest technology. Hence the consolidation of "technology- based" methods during the cold war era was the origin of every major dilemma our world has faced since; therefore I believe the cold war phase was the most important phase that has occurred in our century. Roy Medvedev a Russian dissident acknowledged the power of technology by stating" The technology of repression has become more refined in recent years. Before, repression always went much further than necessary. Stalin killed millions of people when arresting 1,000 would have enabled him to control the people. Our leaders... found out eventually that you don't have to put people in prison or in a psychiatric hospital to silence them. There are
1980 marked the consolidation of the Solidarity movement in Poland, as workers created a strike which was only ended by the government's acceptance to the Gdansk agreement. The feminist movement was also a strong social force/political force which influenced the world community. Other than the role communism has played in the formation of our present day political scene, the formation of OPEC and Arabian control of the majority of oil prices, greatly affected the world economy, and the political scene as well. the Solidarity revolution remained a "self-limiting revolution" aimed at defending the cultural and trade-union freedoms won in the Gdansk Agreement without directly challenging the communist monopoly of political power"(1064). As long systems consolidate themselves based on the use of technology, the freedom of the people will continue to be latently controlled. " As Industrial development led to higher incomes and better diets, more children survived to adulthood, and population grew rapidly in the nineteenth century, contraception within marriage was spreading. The price of gold soared on the world markets, and the value of the dollar declined. Nuclear rage between the two systems was the next to fall, as that type of technology became severely limited. "(1045) The eighth most important event lied with the election of polish Cardinal Karol Wajtyla as Pope John Paul II in 1979. " After marrying earlier, the typical women in Europe, the United States, and Canada had her children quickly. " Thus mother hood decreased in time consumption and increased in quality as less deaths related to childbirth occurred due to technology.
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