How did events of the past impact the future? Select one event that you have studied in World history and identify what impact it has had on our world. To what recent event can you link it?

A good example is the persecution of European Jews during Second World War. As a result of this persecution many Jews have emigrated from Europe and settled, for example, in the United States. This impacts our world because it means that a number of people with Jewish heritage live in the US right now.