INGS1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Central Powers
23 May 2018
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Week 10 / 17 May
The Great Departure
Reading:
Marks, The Origins of the Modern World, Ch. 6
Questions:
1. What factors contributed to the almost four-fold increase in the human
population over the course of the twentieth century?
Largely because of the Haber-Bosch process did the population of the world
increase from 1.6 to 6.2 billions - 4.6 billion more people, and most of them since
1950.
The synthesis of ammonia and the consequent industrial production of
nitrogenous fertiliser freed human population growth from the natural limits of
the biological old regime.
2. How did World War I threaten the stability of the old imperialist order
built by Europeans in the nineteenth century?
Fundamentally, the actions by victorious imperialist powers at the end of WWI
provoked a German resentment providing a support for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi
program alongside national independence movements that spurred opposition
to imperialism and colonialism.
Preceding the 1900's and carried into the early stages of this era is a time where
European power is built upon a stable imperialism.
Naturally, it follows that due to the nature of imperialist power European nation-
states began to grow increasingly skeptical of one another, forming alliances and
seeking to expand through an aggressive territorialism - largely fueled by the
French and Russian fears of the rising economic and military power of Germany.
(In the early 1900's Britain, France and Russia formed the Triple Entente and
Germany and Austria-Hungary formed the Central Powers) Hence, when in July
1914 the Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated what made this confrontation
with the Balkans so explosive were the preexisting imperialist rivalries and
European power politics that effectively pitted the European powers against one
another causing a general war to ensue. Soon, by 1917, the whole world outside
of Europe and the Americas was warring or mobilised to support Europeans at
war with each other.
It was the bloodiest conflict the world had ever seen, due in part to
industrialization harnessing methods of warfare more destructive than had been
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Document Summary
Marks, the origins of the modern world, ch. Largely because of the haber-bosch process did the population of the world increase from 1. 6 to 6. 2 billions - 4. 6 billion more people, and most of them since. Fundamentally, the actions by victorious imperialist powers at the end of wwi provoked a german resentment providing a support for adolf hitler and the nazi program alongside national independence movements that spurred opposition to imperialism and colonialism. Preceding the 1900"s and carried into the early stages of this era is a time where. European power is built upon a stable imperialism. Naturally, it follows that due to the nature of imperialist power european nation- states began to grow increasingly skeptical of one another, forming alliances and seeking to expand through an aggressive territorialism - largely fueled by the. French and russian fears of the rising economic and military power of germany. (in the early 1900"s britain, france and russia formed the triple entente and.
