Throughout the history of the world, many beliefs have impacted the world. Beliefs are ideologies for people to follow and in our society/region in their economic, social, political decisions were all influenced by belief systems. Communism in the Soviet Union/Russia and Christianity in Europe during the Middle Ages are two good examples of how a belief system affects society. The belief of Communism would lead to eventual division of nation and Christianity to the Protestant Reformation. The belief of Communism was found by Karl Marx stated in “The Communist Manifesto”, its ideas was to have an equal society where all property is publicly owned and gain profit equally including womens. Therefore, the leader/government are allowed to control …show more content…
Communism not only affected Russia leader into dictatorship as Joseph Stalin and it made Russia into a totalitarian state changing Russian society lifestyle with many censorship and secret police. It was also foundation for many other society to change, prime example of change are shown in Korea and Vietnam. These two countries were significantly impacted by division of Communism and anti-communist. This result in an internal crisis in their respective countries toward communism because their were many people against/for communism create a large division between them, fighting for whether it should be communism state or not. It impact Korea and Vietnam majorly to this day with Korea separated into two Korea with North Korea the one practicing Communism and Vietnam to be completely a communist state. It later even involved the US to take action, in the containment of Communism. The belief Communism seemingly caused many trouble toward many countries affecting the history of Russia, Korea, and …show more content…
Indulgences are used to gain money by having contract to forgive a person’s sin. This affect the social aspect in Europe by abused its power to trick the citizens. It made Martin Luther to respond with his own dea the 95 Thesis which led the Protestant Reformation, changing the Europe’s society as a whole with changes taken place. Martin Luther 95 Thesis sparked more different denominations of Christianity such as Calvinism and Anglicanism. This influenced Europe by giving the European their own choice in beliefs in political ideas. Additionally Martin Luther 95 thesis also helped Europe advanced into the Scientific Revolution and to the Enlightenment. Both Scientific Revolution by galileo galilei and the Enlightenment were encouraged and defy the church old teaching. Christianity ultimately, help influence Europe society political ideas about the teaching of Christianity, the outside world, and the
The Vietnam War was costly not only to our armed forces but to our American economy and American morale. We entered the war in an attempt to end the communist regime of North Vietnam and their southern allies, the Vietcong, from taking over South Vietnam. South Vietnam was an ally of the United States and due to this political relationship; the United States was entitled to help defend their ally. More than 58,000 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War. By 1969 it was the peak of American involvement in the war and more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict. Throughout the war growing opposition towards participation of military forces threatened the support of the war. American citizens began to
At the beginning of the sixteenth century the church was promptly losing respect due to the corruption and simony within the church. However when Johann Tetzel began to sell indulgences, many felt that the church had reached rock bottom. Due to this sale of indulgences, Martin Luther issued his 95 Theses which sparked a religious reformation movement that spread throughout Europe. During the reformation, religious, political, and social aspects were associated with the changes in the church, significantly affecting Europe.
From 1450 to 1750 C.E., the Europeans were beginning to settle in the Western part of Europe in places such as: France, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and many more. Like many other of the surrounding countries and empires, the Europeans began to question many of the hierarchies in Europe at the time such as the Catholic Church by asking “Should we trust their process or attempt to reform?” or even “Should we ignore the intentions of the church and start something completely new that we believe is better for the people?” The development of both the Protestant Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment began to answer these questions and enforce their beliefs in European society. Through the inspiration of the “needed” change of tradition in European society the Protestant Reformation sought to bring back the early versions of Christianity, while the Age of Enlightenment sought to abandon Christianity and move forward. But both the Protestant Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment sought to focus on similar moral tenants such as the belief of individualism and the use of reason to analyze text. Overall, both the Protestant Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment in Europe desired to move away from the selfish, incompetent, and lazy Catholic Church of that time, and either move forward or reform to stabilize European thinking for centuries to come.
The Reformation was a split in the Catholic Church during the fifteen-hundred. This schism had major economic, political, and religious implications and caused the creation of Protestant Christianity. It began when Martin Luther wrote the Ninety-Five Theses, where he argued for reform of the Catholic Church. One of the issues that bothered Luther the most, was the sale of indulgences. Church officials sold forgiveness for people's’ sins. While this was just the beginning, there were many factors which led to the beginning of the Reformation.
Communist had a long history during the 20th century, and communism was very influential. Almost all of Asia and East Europe became Communist. From the start of the theory then many civil wars in Russia affected the whole world. Communist defined the idea of itself in many different ways, it helps many nations came together formed a party fought wars, but it also made many countries became really poor, and the economy in most of the countries got pushed back about 10 years. Communism is an economic and political system that sought to create an egalitarian society; it collapsed because of personal interest and government’s corruption.
The word ‘communism’ originated from ‘commun’, a French term meaning ‘belonging to all’. Before the actual foundation of communist parties and countries, there were people who had desired the theory of shared ownership and equal wealth among society for centuries. The earliest notable people to endorse this theoretical societal system included Greek philosopher Plato and religious leader
Mintz and McNeil of Digital History state that Vietnam, like Cambodia and Laos, was a French colony until it gained its independence after the First Indochina War. The Northern supporters and Southern dissenters of communism divided Vietnam during this time. The Geneva Accords, created after the war in 1954, required Vietnam to hold an election between the leaders of the North and South after two years. The US was afraid of what would follow if the North were to win, and decided to intervene in the hopes of stopping the spread of communism. With help from the US, South Vietnam avoided the agreement's orders and cancelled this election; power went to the South Vietnamese prime minister instead.
Communism is an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property. Many communists would soon put an end to private property, substituting government ownership of factories, railroads and other businesses. After the Red Scare communists "reds" cried out for
For decades in the United States the Cold war remained one of the biggest political issues. However, the divisive point of the Cold War era was the Vietnam War in the thousands of Americans were killed and back home in the United States a civil war almost broke out.
This fundamental difference from the Catholic dogma that one could buy salvation to Luther’s new ideas as way to Heaven began to transform many people’s beliefs. Supporters of Luther adopted the concept of faith and knowledge of God as a way to repent their sins, and eventually, it reshaped the Christian culture. As Luther personally struggled to be a “perfect” monk, he discovered that faith in the gospel was the only way to be “made righteous by God”(roper 78). In response to his distress for his laity’s desire to buy indulgences, Luther wrote the “95 Theses on the Power of Indulgences.” He knew he was attacking the pope and the values of the church, but records show that he felt “...not fully in control of his actions, but handed over responsibility to a higher power”(84 roper). Cleary, Luther felt a spiritual connection with God and indulgences were in direct opposition to faith. His revolutionary claims in the “95 Theses on the Power of Indulgences” caused a conflict that would eventually be known as the Protestant Reformation.
The most powerful and influential form of communism to this date called Marxism-Leninism. The origin of this newly developed philosophy is Russia, which made a great impact. The main ways that Marxism-Leninism effected the Russian society was through the Communist party, the role of working class people, and the perception of modern capitalism as imperialism. After the integration of Marxism-Leninism in Russia, the people fell into order in the beginning but later fell into chaos at the fall of the USSR similar to the Communist revolution in China. The Chinese Communist revolution was similar to the fall of the USSR as China made the mistake of pressuring the the people into Marxism which resulted in Communist revolutions and fell during the Cold
Communism is a type of government where the state controls all property and its’ ultimate goal is to create a classless society. In 1955, NATO wanted to have control over West Germany and the Soviet Union saw this as a threat. The Soviet Union was under Stalin’s’ rule and responded with the Warsaw Pact. Stalin wanted the world to become Communism, so he started this communist block which included Hungary, Poland, and Germany.
The Protestant Reformation was a series of religious and political events dating in the 16th century. Martin Luther’s “95 Theses” against selling of indulgences - a payment to the Catholic church that purchased an exemption from punishment for some types of sins, served as catalyst to this event. The Reformation has been believed to have signalled the modern era. Short Term Effects
Communism is an economic strategy with a main goal of establishing pure equality in a country. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels first created this as a strategy to end capitalism. All private ownership is taken away and basically given to the community which is where the name “communism” was derived from. Capitalism tended to create social classes and communism basically abolished the rich and the poor. In the end, the government ends up gaining money by requiring all goods of production to be controlled by the government itself.
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. It also can be defined as a conceptualized system of government in which resources and production facilities are the property of the entire society rather than individuals. In a communist society, labor is shared equally as well, and the benefits of labor are distributed according to need (Communism.4all 1). No one person shall be ranked higher than another and there is to be one person in charge of the society in a communism government. There are still to this day many countries that fall under the rule of communism and the ways they were transformed under communist rule is quite interesting.