Chapter 23

Daisy Alcaraz

History

Andrews

Chapter 23

After the first World War and the second and even  after the Cold war, nationals all over the world were beginning to feel like there would be some sort of peace. But like history likes to point out  that may not always be everyone's experience. While the bigger nations began to strive different forms of groups began to form as a result of a feeling of suppression by these superpower nations. Groups like Al - Qaeda an international organization of fundamentalist islamic militants, headed by Osama Bin Laden who was a wealthy Saudi Arabian who turned militant fundamentalist. Being key for funding when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came in and armed Mujahideen groups to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War in 1989. But Afghanistan was not the only one at war, in 1992 Ethnic conflict got fuiled by genocide. Serbian forces committed horrific acts of ethnic cleansing against Muslims from Bosnia and Kosovo, killing or driving people who were not part of the main ethnic groups (christianity) from their homes. Aside from that there were some good movements like the Bretton Woods system named for a conference held in New Hampshire in 1944. This system provides the foundation for postwar economic globalization including World Bank and the International Monetary Fund based on the promotion of free trade, stable currencies and high levels of capital investment. Alongside with this movement came Rachel Carson an Environmental activist whose book Silent Spring  written in 1962 is credited with launching the American environmental movement. The environmental movement was a movement to preserve the natural world in the face of spiraling human ability to alter the world environment.