Conflicts, Civil Rights and Integration

In the early sixties there was a break USSR

Marxism and the revolutionary process,

and also for spaces of international

influence

In the fifties, the struggle of African Americans for their civil rights

rose in the United States. They protested against discrimination

and demanded effective equality in voting, work and services.

There were violent attitudes, but the pacifist tendency led by

Martin Luther King prevailed, which achieved important

democratic advances.

At the beginning of the seventies the

so-called "energy crisis" broke out,

when the countries that were the largest

producers of hydrocarbons in the world, in

agreement with the big oil companies,

caused a rise in oil prices, which shook the

world.

In the fifties, they began a long and complex

process of economic integration, which has led

them to constitute the largest block of countries

in the world, which is, at the same time, a great

economic power

In the late 1980s, in the USSR, the Soviet system was running

out because of the weight of Stalinism, the abandonment of

socialist ideals and bureaucratization. An attempt by its leader

Mikhail Gorbachev to renew communism, Perestroika, failed,

and the regime collapsed, the Communist Party lost power

and the USSR dissolved in its component countries that left

the communist system with Russia at the head.

Japan was devastated by the war and then was occupied by the United States, which saw that

country could be its great ally in Asia and allowed the rapid reconstruction of its industry. The

Japanese transformed their country into a power in the production of cars and other advanced

technology items. It is currently one of the great economic powers in the world. Other countries

in the Asia - Pacific region had great economic growth, becoming exporters for the world market.