Starting with the industrial revolutions, the course focused on the First World War, as a truly world-redefining war. Stromberg can claim that World War I was devastating and then arbitrarily move on to the next period of history, which was the rise of communism and fascism, but through the lecture we see the connection. “Communism and fascism were the two great movements that emerged from the First World War” (6/1). As the lecture explains, World War I produced many extremist ideas, and the reason for these extremist ideas were the problems that the world inherently identified from the conditions it found itself in after the war. The role of communism and fascism did not stop there, its impact continued until after the Second World War and led to fueling decolonization. Taken in isolation, we can view both wars as having impacted each nation individually, the truth is far from this, and many nations relied on common ideas to decolonize. “Class, religion, and race were all forms of identity that transcended national boundaries, and national independence movements drew inspiration from international movements” (6/3). The idea put forward being that of “international movements. From this we understand that the main story was that the nations led by imperialism wanted to decolonize and start fresh as an independent world. The big story is not, as Stromberg might have us believe, that each nation, in isolation, worked on