Ch. 22 — The End of Empire — The Global South on the Global Stage. (1914 — present)

In what way(s) do you see the historical developments described in this chapter continuing to evolve in our world today?

I see the historical developments are described in Ch. 22 continuing to evolve in our world today. For historical developments, Independence and Development is the most important point that European colonial rule was struggled “for modern development, symbolized here by a photo from 2012 showing South African high school students in a computer-education classroom” (Strayer, 975). This is what Independence and Development still evolved today in world history. 

There is a way to freedom that struggles for independence. This was happened in 1900, “European colonial empires in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean region, and Pacific Oceania appeared as enduring features of the world’s political landscape. Well before the end of the twentieth century, they were gone” (Strayer, 976). This is the best way to reach the freedom “as colony after colony” (Strayer, 976) in the world.

Overall, Independence and Development is the best historical development in Ch.22, especially the empire ends “in the second half of the twentieth century, under pressure from nationalist movements, Europe’s Asian and African empires dissolved into dozens of newly independent states” (Strayer, 980). This setting occurs in Africa and Asia.