INGS1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Central Powers, Nationstates
23 May 2018
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Anastassia Simonian
18 May 2017
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Week 10 / 17 May
The Great Departure
Reading:
Marks, The Origins of the Modern World, Ch. 6
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. However, WWI was only the
beginning of the end of a European-dominated world order. This outcome was
not at first clearly in sight, rather, it was the "thirty years crisis" of WWI, WWII
and the Great Depression that finally dislodged the Western European states
from dominance.
C. 1900 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. (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 it was the preexisting imperialist rivalries and European power
politics that effectively pitted the European powers against one another and
later, by 1917, caused the whole word outside of Europe and the Americas to
mobilise support for the Europeans at war. It was the bloodiest conflict the
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