Episode 209 – 1945-1991: The Cold War and Decolonization

This episode explains how by 1991, nations throughout Europe and Asia were rebuilt along very different lines of democratic capitalism or authoritarian communism. These ideologies created material advances to varying degrees of success. However, communism has done so at the cost of countless lives and personal freedoms while capitalism has set economic growth as its top priority, to the cost of our natural environment’s ability to manage itself. Former European colonies have secured independence for themselves and the empires of the late 19th and early 20th centuries have now collapsed. America stands at the end of the Cold War as the world’s singular superpower.

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