Historical Maps: Redesigning the World Post WWII
In history there are a number of strange and interesting maps that have been drawn. Most of them have very interesting stories. Some of these are simple maps like the globes that were made in Russia for a while. They would take a map of a city or a country or something similarly smaller than the world and would make a globe using this map. Some of these are placed over an already made globes , while other people made their own globe and placed the new map on their globe. There are a few articles out now about how to make your own if you are interested in doing this yourself.
There is another interesting map that was found from around World War Two. It was a plan for how to split up the world after the Allies had won. In some ways it looks exactly like our world map now, and in others it is very different. On it is a title which refers to the New World Order. This doesn’t come as a big surprise as there was talk of the Allies having to lead the world in a path back to righteousness and how they would have to unite the world in order to heal the wounds that were caused. It is actually in this name that a lot of land was given and taken from people during this time. It is also in this spirit that the League of Nations was built after the first world war.
The bottom of the maps details which of the current (for the time) countries and areas belong to whom. There are a few familiar faces in the scheme of things, such as USA has all of North America and Greenland along with a few islands, and USSR has all of Russia and extends some into Eastern Europe. There are also some new things, such as the USSA which is the United States of South America, in which it is imagined that they could all ban together and work as one. There is also “Hebrewland”, as it is labeled, which was their name for the Holy land of the Jews plus Jordan. Somehow the whole thing seems a little idealistic, as though some of these countries are going to just up and forget about other atrocities that have happened because of this one world war. It is an interesting look into the past however.
What world maps and interesting globes have you found?
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