Global History II is a requirement for high school students to take in order to graduate because it studies in depth things that we learned previously, but never with a ton of detail and reasons behind why certain wars and battles occurred. Before this coarse, I was always aware that the Cold War happened, but always believed it was just between the US and the Soviets. Now, I know that it was capitalism vs. communism and involved many more countries than I ever could've imagined.