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| Lost Generation / Age of Anxiety |
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| Comes after the great war--Social, political, economical crisis--lost generation-- great depression-- challenges to liberal war (communism and fascism) |
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| 1919-1938 -- American: 1929 |
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| Nazi -- German worker party of 1919 -- start world war two -- nationalism, socialism, anti-communism, treaty of versailles, re-armament, volk (people in German) Symbol designed by Hitler -- strum abteilung: SA -- military arm of the Nazi parties |
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| Come up with by Benito Mussolini. Parliamentary groups |
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| Early life in Austria -- German nationalism -- anti semitism -- draft dodger -- entlists in WWI for Germany -- medal of honor for war service |
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| SA: Strum Abteilung (military arm of the Nazi parties)--SS: Schutzstaffel (loyalty only to Hitler). SS eradicated the SA on the Night of the Long Knives: June 30, 1934 |
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| Hitler's book about his life written while he was in prison. Written in 1924. Means 'my struggle'. Was on the best seller list |
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| Article 48 Hitler rules by emergency decree -- March 23 1933 -- arrests of communists (and socialists and church groups and any opposition) -- concentration camps begin (Dachau) |
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| (coordination) Mechanical metaphor -- nazification of everyday life -- civil service laws: only memebers of the German nation can serve |
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| Community of the people (Nation definiton: race and blood) |
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| 1935 -- race laws go back to great grandparents -- for German people agains jews |
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| Living space -- remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1935 -- annexation of Austria in 1938 -- Demand for Sudetenland in 1938 (irredentism) -- opposed the treaty of Versailles -- reunite the Germans |
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| Children, kitchen, church -- describing women's role in society |
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| Himmler's Speech "We will never speak about it in public" |
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| To the SS Einsatzgruppen -- telling them that they had the most difficult and noble job, though they could never speak of it to anyone. (shoot the Jews in forest) |
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| Concentration camps -- extermination camps -- holocaust -- final solution -- ghettos -- invasion of Poland |
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| Invasion of Poland -- Concentration camps -- ghettos -- SS Einsatzgruppen -- Final solution -- Extermination camps |
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| Einsatzgruppen/ Ghettos/ Final Solution |
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| Einsatzgruppen: shoot the Jews in the forest -- Ghettos: April 1940- portion of cities for Jews- Lodz: 230,000, Warsaw: 400,000. -- Final Solution: The use of gas, March 1942- Belzec: construction of the first extermination camp |
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| Extermination 1942 -- Contcentration 1940 |
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| Wagen for the people, told them that if they gave money after a certain amount of time they would get one. Was an empty promise. Money went to military |
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| Appealed to working classes -- promise of joy gave them strength to get through their trials. KDF |
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| Nazi Soviet Non-Agression Pact |
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| Germany and Russia agree to share Poland and not fight each other. Avoiding a two front war |
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| September 1939 -- Made a plan of attack -- Oct 1939- May 1940 there was no action so in a mocking way they called it the "Sitezrieg" -- May to June 1940 finally defeated France and then created their Vichy regime: collaboration of France and Germany -- July 1940-July 1941 was the battle against Britain and created Tripartate Pact: Japan, Germany, and Italy -- June 1941: Invasion of Russia saves England |
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| Appeasement/ Neville Chamberlain |
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| Let Hitler take the land, it was just a small portion of a small country no one had even heard of. They were too afraid of war. Winston Churchill critized saying that they would still face a war eventually -- Sudetenland -- Munich Conference 1938 |
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| German invasion of the USSR |
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| 1937 -- Japanese invasion of China -- troubles in the pacific |
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| Pearl Harbor "Asia for the Asians" |
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| Dec 7 1941 -- The "sleeping giant awakes" -- Grand Alliance: USA, GB, Russia -- Goals: Europe first, settle for nothing less than unconditional surrender, put aside their differences till later -- Japanese were racially motivated to eradicate all but the Asians |
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| Stalingrad/ Midway/ Guadalcanal |
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| Stalingrad: bloodiest in human history, between Germany and its allies and the soviet union, turning point for WWII in Europe. Soviet won, began the liberation of the soviet union. -- Midway:between US and Japan, the mid-pacific base near midway atoll -- Guadalcanal:Allies (US, GB, USSR) against the Japanese forces. Allies won. |
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| 1942 as the turning points for the war |
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| Stalingrad, Midway, Guadalcanal |
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| Potsdam, Yalta, Postwar Terretorial divisions |
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| Postwar Division of Europe: End of european hegemony (decolonization of Africa and India) formation of Israel -- Yalta Feb 1945: democratic elections, soviet 'sphere of influence', Potsdam 1945, Eastern Europe into Soviet Sphere, division of Germany into DDR (east) and FRD (West) |
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| August 6th 1945. 60,000 killed instantly, 1/4 million radiation poisoning. |
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| August 9 1945 -- 40,000 dead |
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| Project TRINITY was the name given to the war-time effort to produce the first nuclear detonation. Did it cuz China turned communism |
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| The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy designed to contain Communism by giving Greece and Turkey economic aid to keep them from falling into the soviet sphere |
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| 1947 -- rebuild Germany, democracy, liberalism -- Berlin Blockade: 1948, airlift, German Federal Republic (Germany no longer occupied). Formation of NATO 1949 -- the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party |
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| officially named the Treaty of Friendship, prompted by the integration of a "re-militarized" West Germany into NATO,It was established on May 1, 1955 in Warsaw, Poland to counter the alleged threat from the NATO alliance Pact lasted throughout the Cold War until certain member nations began withdrawing in 1989 |
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| 1948 -- Declaration of Human rights, end of Cold War |
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| Race to have the atomic bomb -- Soviet and US main players |
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| Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) |
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| The doctrine assumes that each side has enough weaponry to destroy the other side and that either side, if attacked for any reason by the other, would retaliate with equal or greater force -- AKA: we'd bomb the world |
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| Korea, Vietnam, Cuba - bay of pigs and volunteers. US and SU fighting |
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| Cuba President, from Cold War to Global Village, sides with SU |
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| Confrontation between SU and US over Cuba |
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| First satellite in orbit by Soviet, ignited Space Race within the Cold War |
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| Leader of Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death |
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| Non Alignment (Tito/ Yugoslavia) |
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| Not aligned with any other great power -- struggle against imperialism, colonialism -- also known as the third way -- Suez Crisis started by President Nazer in Egypt -- reclaimed Suez canal -- needed money for his country, didn't want US or SU |
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| spontaneous revolt against communist gov of hungary. Helps start decline of communism. 1956 -- began as a student demonstration |
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| Leader of the China communist movement -- red army -- rejects Marxist-Leninism -- ends foreign domination and forms a new government (communist) -- his way of becoming all powerful was taking his people through everywhere and making his Red Army be good people -- People's Republic of China established -- rejects Western ideas |
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| Nationalist China -- Taiwan was proclaimed as true China -- Nationalist |
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| a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia starting January 5, 1968 when Alexander Dubček came to power, and running until August 21 of that year when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies (except for Romania) invaded the country |
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| Great Cultural Revolution |
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| Attack on tradition and history in China -- speaking out of students, taking teachers and denouncing them in public -- began as a student movement -- political correctness -- start of communism in China |
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| Kuomintang of China also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party (go to Taiwan) -- liberal like west -- retreat to Taiwan 1949, when China becomes communist -- attempt to purge China of Communist in April 1927 |
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| The calming of the Cold War between the US and the SU |
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| Strategic Arms Limitation Talks -- between the US and the SU on the issue of armament controls -- limit the countries stock of nuclear weapons |
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| One of the proxy wars (1975) locations -- US and SU -- Post war crises |
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| Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan |
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| Nine year conflict: Soviet support of Marxist party in Afghanistan. PDPA against the Mujahideen insurgents (Trying to overthrow communism) |
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| Russian terms for economic reforms introduced in June 1985 by the Soviet leader -- Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy -- after cold war |
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| Transparency or openness -- open public debate thought to encourage participation in Perestroika |
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| Last leader of the Soviet Union -- came up with Perestroika and Glasnost -- awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 |
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| The act of independence of Colonies from Britain. Western Colonies, Asia, Africa. First was Pakistan and Rupeblic of India -- 90 countries -- Models of independence, Marxist or liberal democracy -- Help from the US or SU -- Some join Non alignment movements (Bandung 1955 "Third World" India, Egypt (Nasser)) |
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| Joined the non alignment movement |
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| Major spiritual and political leader of India and Indian Independence movement -- Recognized as father of the nation |
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| Dividing itself from Britain |
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| Vietnamese revolutionary and statesmen who later became Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -- most famous for leading the Viet Minh independence movement and establishing the communist party of Dem-Repub of Vietnam |
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| nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine -- recognized the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire as fully autonomous states |
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| Independence from France -- one of the most important decolonisation wars and a complex conflict. It was characterized by guerrilla strikes, terrorism against civilians on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army |
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| the nationalist political movement for one united Africa. Goal to preserve their tribes and native cultures -- New Nationalism |
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| founder and first president of modern Ghana and emerged as one of the most influential Pan-Africanists of the 20th century |
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| Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of China -- "second generation" CCP leadership |
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| Views of Islam but also a political system -- Islam must be the basis for all statuatory laws of society -- view that Western was against them |
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| AKA Islamic Revolution -- transformed Iran from a Monarchy to an Islamic republic -- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: the leader of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic |
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| Globalization/ Global Corporations |
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| After WWI they broke nations down, but after WWII they allowed them to unify and that led to globalization. Global Corporation is enhanced by technology |
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| Trading Blocs/ European Union |
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| a large free trade area formed by one or more tax, tariff and trade agreements -- one of the first was the German Customs Union -- Union of most European countries |
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| Example of Western consumerism affecting the globe -- Sara vs Barbie Iran rejected barbie -- Japan altered barbie |
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| Population growth/ "Carrying capacity" |
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| Pop growth from 500 million to 2.5 billion in 300 years -- carrying capacity: how much the earth could hold. Food production kept up with the population. Club of Rome issued limits to population growth -- wrote the predicament of mankind |
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| Both were high and added to the population growth |
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| Causes for the fall of the Soviet Union |
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| Afghanistan -- Arms Race -- Poland (independent) -- Gorbechev -- Revolutions in Eastern Europe |
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