The problems
Rachel Carson (1907-64) (1962- Silent Spring)
Problems of:
Population growth
Industrialization
Moving agriculture into more and more land
Poisoning of streams and rivers
Creation of poisonous gases, chemicals, weapons
Boom in energy consumption
Production vs. population growth
The responses
Late 60s/early 70s
US response
Europe and Japan
China and the former USSR
Kyoto Protocol, 1997
Grassroots organization
Internet-connected communities, solutions
Exceptionalism and Isolationism
“American exceptionalism”
Internationalization
Isolationism
Government and big business/corporations
“cowboy diplomacy”
The history of American imperialism
US history textbooks
Louisiana Purchase
War with Mexico
Manifest Destiny
Cuba
Hawaii
Philippines
World wars
Nuclear weapons
Korea
Vietnam
Antiwar protests
First Iraq War
Oil
An end to the Cold War
bipolar world
threat of nuclear war
deficits
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
glasnost
perestroika
1990
1991
Boris Yeltsin
Economic Globalization
Iraq and Afghanistan
20th century conflict and violence sources
China under Mao
PRC
Sino-Soviet split
Peasants
Great Leap Forward (?)
Cultural Revolution
Red Guard units
Nixon
More Conflict in SE Asia
War escalation
Secret bombings
Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot
agrarian utopia
the killing fields
“What is rotten must be removed”
Religious Revivalism
An alternative path to resistance
Iran
Persian history
Pahlavi dynasty
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Ayatollahs
Mullahs
Ayatollah Khomeini (1902-89)
Iranian Revolution
Iran and the West
Saddam Hussein
Iran-Iraq War
Iran-Contra Affair
Afghanistan
1978 revolution
USSR involvement
Mujahideen
Soviet-Afghan War
Outcomes of the War
Taliban
End of British India
colony of British India
Indian Civil Service
Indian National Congress
All-India Muslim League
influenza epidemic
Gandhi and Nehru
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
Satyagraha
ahimsa
“walk to the sea”
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
nationalist
INC
Industrialization
The Partition
“Quit India”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)
Pakistan
Partition violence
Kashmir
New Imperialism in Africa
“scramble” for Africa
French, British, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Belgians, and the Spanish
Berlin Conference of 1884-85
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)
De Beers Consolidated
Christianity
Islam
African National Congress
W.E. B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey
Pan-African movements
Independence in Africa
Algeria
FNL
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72)
Kenya
“Mau Mau”
Jomo Kenyatta
French West Africa
Charles de Gaulle
South Africa
“homelands”
ANC
Nelson Mandela
Conferences at the end of WWII
Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam
Enter Cold War
Soviets in Eastern Europe
Truman Doctrine
iron curtain
Stalin and Churchill
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
June 1947
European Recovery Program
Berlin Crisis
Soviet blockade
Berlin airlift
East/West split
International Alliances
NATO
COMECON
Warsaw Pact
Cold War in Asia
Chinese Civil War
Chiang Kai-shek
CCP and Mao
PLA
KMT
Conflict in Korea
38th parallel
UN Security council
US, PRC
Conflict in Vietnam
French Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Cong
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh City
Threat of Nuclear Warfare
logic of total war
H-bomb
Eisenhower, Khruschev
Birth of Fascism
Italy
fasci di combattimento
Benito Mussolini
“Il Duce is always right!”
Hitler’s Germany
1918
1920s
National Socialist Party
Adolf Hitler
Goals of the Nazis
1933
League of Nations
“final solution”
Fuhrer
European attacks
WWII
Wehrmacht
European Fronts
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
Battle of Britain
Eastern Front
Japan/US
December 1941
Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere
Turning Points, 1942-43
El Alamein
Stalingrad
Midway
“island hopping” campaign
General Douglas MacArthur
Endgame
Normandy, France
April 30, 1945
Asia-Pacific War
China’s united front
Firebombing
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima- August 6, 1945
Nagasaki- August 9, 1945
200K dead
Truman
Analysis of the War
300K
6 million
35 million (20 million USSR alone)
Collapse of the Qing and Chinese Nationalism
Puyi
Dr. Sun Yatsen
Yuan Shikai
KMT
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
Long March
Rise of Japanese Empire
Meiji Period
Industrialization
Manchuria and Korea
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Sino-Japanese War
Treaty of Shimonoseki
Triple Intervention
Admiral Togo
Russo-Japanese War
Treaty of Portsmouth
Korea
Taisho and early Showa
Yoshihito
Hirohito
“Taisho Democracy”
Great War
Rise of business
Zaibatsu
radical left and right
Mukden and Manchuria
South Manchuria railway
Manchukuo
Henry Pu Yi
Militarism
Military control
Gen. Hideki Tojo
War in Asia
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Marco Polo Bridge
Nanjing Massacre
“united front”
Downfall of Tsarist Russia
Intelligentsia
Slavophiles vs. Westernizers
Tsar Alexander II
Mikhail Bakunin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Bolsheviks
1905
Russia in Revolution
March 1917
Alexander Kerensky
November 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Versailles
The 20s
1918-21 Russian Civil War
Leon Trotsky
NEP
USSR
Joseph Stalin
Comintern
“socialism in one country”
Russian Revolution in Global Perspective
3rd world
Latin America, Asia, Africa
England, France
Stalin
Collectivization
Kulaks
5-year plans
Industrial might
Totalitarian rule and Stalin
Siberia
End of the Great War
peoples in Asia, Middle East, and Africa
Gandhi
satyagraha
Russia in revolution
US entry
Versailles Conference
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Breakup of Overland Empires
Armenian Genocide/Holocaust 1915-16
Immediate Impacts of the Great War
Death toll
Economic impact
Fate of the “Sick Man”
The World Depression
Great Depression in the West
-Japan
-USSR
Conflicting Ideologies
Fascism
Marxism/Communism
Keynesianism
The 20th century in World History
Rise of the United States
Civil War (1861-65)
manifest destiny fuck you
robber barons or captains of industry these guys made money and were kinda cool: Vanderbilt- railroads, JP Morgan-money, Rockerfeller-OIL, Carnegie-steel, railroads
US Imperialism begins when the pilgrims decide to take over native americans’ land. every action following IS imperialism.
Lili‘uokalani poor last queen of Hawaii
TR was a bastard. that’s why he ran for a third presidency under the Bull-Moose party. why would you want to party with a bull and a moose man?
Portsmouth
East Asia in the late 19th century
Taiping Rebellion
Self-strengthening
Empress Dowager Cixi
“Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists”
Commodore Matthew Perry
Meiji
War in 1894-95, 1904-05
Causes of the “Great War”
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination by Serbian nationalists sparked! the war
Nationalism
political alliances
Germany
Serbia and Austria-Hungary
The Great War
Von Schlieffen
Fronts of war
Unterseeboot
Technology of warfare
On the global home front
Global War
