World History Notes (IAS 45)

Ecology, Global Environmentalism, and Going Green (15-2)

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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

American Empire and the World (15-1)

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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

Global Conflict and Violence (14-2)

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20^th 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

Decolonization and Nationalism in Asia and Africa (14-1)

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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

The Cold War and a Polarized World (13-2)

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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

38^th 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

World War II and Mass Dislocation (13-1)

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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)

The Rise of Japanese Empire and Revolution in Asia (12-2)

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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”

Revolution in Russia and the Making of the Soviet Union (12-1)

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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

3^rd world

Latin America, Asia, Africa

England, France

Stalin

Collectivization

Kulaks

5-year plans

Industrial might

Totalitarian rule and Stalin

Siberia

Interwar Period and the Decline of Land and Overseas Empires (11-2)

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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

Dawn of the New Century, Alliance System, and the Great War (11-1)

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The 20^th century in World History

population growth
environmental change
warfare
technology
shifting of global power structure

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 19^th 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