Much of this chapter is based on the Cold War happening in Asia. He ends the chapter stating how Asia rejects the domination of the westerners.
In chapter two "Inheritors of Empire", chapter three "Crumbling Certainties," and chapter four "New Challenges to the Cold War World Order," Roberts does not go into full detail about a lot of essential topics. For instance, the author should have elaborated more about what apartheid, a policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa, is and how it is still affecting the people of South Africa even today. Chapter two is mostly about Africa and its affects with the Cold War. He begins with the colonization of Africa and then goes into Africa's many economic problems and walks us through the decolonization. He discusses the politics of Africa and the alliances that are being made. One alliance in particular he brings up is the Organization of African Unity (the OAU). When he talks more about troubles in the Cold War, very slickly he moves into dealings with Cuba and big leaders, such as Fidel Castro. It was good that he brought this subject up because with the Cuban missile crisis, it is still affecting us today. In chapter three Roberts uses an extensive amount of photographs and captions in the book, which are great in aiding with his explanations. The maps also are very detailed and clear to understand one thing, which makes reading the book much easier. He explains why and how the Vietnam War starts and ends. This section is very interesting and after reading it I had a broader and better idea about this war. In chapter four he begins with China and Japan, and smoothly runs into the Cold War in the Middle East and the Islamic World.
In Chapter four "The End of an Era" he goes further into the fact that America is embarrassed terribly by the fact that the US embassy is attacked and people are taken under as hostages.
