and its World War II allies over post-war territorial settlements. Global Connections: Persisting Trends in a World Transformed by War. xx video As China and Japan bitterly struggled throughout the 1930s for control of east Asia, the West to a great extent watched from the sidelines. In most places, the transfer of power was from elite to elite, and social gains in many places was at best, minimal. The end of World War II marked the beginning of an age of nationalist movements in the European colonies in Africa and Asia. Only in South Africa did the white minority manage to maintain power after 1980. Korea was divided into Soviet and U.S. The German-devised tactic of blitzkrieg blind-sided both western and eastern Europe, and North Africa.
