The western world has always tried to maintain peace. For example when Hitler was conquering the world, the USA stepped in and helped to stop him. What would happen if the west just stepped back from the beginning? Hitler would have succeeded? How crazy would this place be?
Why is the west so dominant in controlling the world? What would happen if they left? Would terrorists and anarchists grow out of control?
PBS and National Geographic with Jared Diamond created a 3-part television series regarding this book and its subject matter which is, basically, the answer to your question.
Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years – from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century.
Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world-wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality.
* Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet? * Why didn't the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead? * Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East? * Why did farming never emerge in Australia? * And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?
As he peeled back the layers of history to uncover fundamental, environmental factors shaping the destiny of humanity, Diamond found both his theories and his own endurance tested.
The three one-hour programs were filmed across four continents on High Definition digital video, and combined ambitious dramatic reconstruction with moving documentary footage and computer animation. They also include contributions from Diamond himself and a wealth of international historians, archeologists, and scientists.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a thrilling ride through the elemental forces which have shaped our world – and which continue to shape our future. ========= Here are all 3 parts.
Um, the US didn't "Step in" to stop Hitler; the declaration of war that followed the Pearl Harbor attack only declared against JAPAN. It was HITLER who declared war on the US. The whole narrative of the Heroic Allies coming in to stop the Evil Nazis is hogwash- yes, the Allies DID stop the evil Nazis, but rescuing the poor victims of the Holocaust was never the primary goal.
The chief reason that the "Western" superculture has proven so dominant on the world stage is that they figured out how to gain money and power from others without destroying or enslaving them. The Mongols built an empire on a mountain of skulls, but it all fell apart in a few generations. The Romans burned and slaughtered their way through the Mediterranean, but grew decadent off plunder and fell into weakness. The Arabs- well, they pretty much repeated what the Romans did, but they couldn't finish the Mediterranean loop, and they were succeeded by other groups. The Soviets, British, Persians, Bactrians, and now perhaps even the Americans took Afghanistan, but couldn't hold it, and it signaled the death knell of their empires.
China's making its big push now; it has to, since its population bomb is going to go off soon and destroy ITS empire. Want to know what happens when someone else takes the reins? Wait and watch.
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Yes but if you ask about Hitlers greatest mistakes, declaring war on the United States was one of the biggest mistakes he ever made.
Thousand year head start exploring the world granting power. Western Europe with ports had the harder luber for extensive sea travel. The tropical areas had soft wood and other lands that had hard wood was too brutal in the winter to explore. Even the world shape of continents and ocean currents gave a massive edge where it could. It really boils down to higher probability chances everywhere.
Just honest to god dice rolls. Some dice had 1in a trillions chance and the next is a 1 in billions and won. Lot of little things line up and got amazing results and sometimes a billion sure thing missed by that much once then twice and the world has been charged forever.
It's hard to say what small changes effect our current world. It's called the "butterfly effect." The single beat of a butterfly wings can change the world is the whole theory.
If USA didn't step in WW2 we would of still beaten Hitler. Just that the Japanese's would of taken longer to surrender but they were gonna anyway even without the nukes. There wasn't much they could do after the fail of Germany plans against Russia and France never been fully took over.
We were attacked by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941. Roosevelt went to Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. Japan and Germany were allied, by the Tripartite agreement signed on September 27th, 1940 . Several days after the US declared war on Japan, Hitler declared war on the US. We did not just jump in. Did you go to school?
Free men will always fight. If it can be done peacefully through courts toppling all the leadership, then that is what we will do to spare the sheep. If it can't be done in peace, then all you commies die. Choose your fate. We don't back down and we don't give up.
America was a neutral power until the Japanese brought us into the war by attacking Pearl Harbor. America was just content making money and making movies. It took the destruction of an entire fleet of ships and hospitals to bring us into the war.
Yeah... basically that is a good analogy. there are so many similarities between how Hilter and Nazis rose to power and what Russia is doing now it is scary.
Please read history, US didn't step in they got declared war at and attacked at sea. So they got forced into the war they tried their best to stay out of.
Other powers would rise and exercise hegemony in their spheres of influence. This is what Russia and China are working toward now. They know the West is declining.
Better ideas and philosophies like private ownership of property. You will see what the effect will be as more and more of the Western societies get away from these better ideas and continue their downward spiral into socialism and fascism.
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