POSC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anti-Communism, Neocolonialism, Vladimir Lenin
30 Mar 2017
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Political violence is the use of physical force to affect power relations within or between societies : there are many different rationalities used to justify political violence. There have been, four major global wars since the beginning of the 20th century. Each of these wars has significantly impacted the global political climate. Wwi started as a european war between the triple alliance of france, britain and. Russia on the one side and the central powers of germany and austria-hungry on the other. The submarine was used to blockade supplies with the goal of starving civilian populations and the submerging the opponents war economy: initially poison gas was used to end the deadlock but this proved ineffective. The battle on the western front, which was expected to be short, became a. Machine for massacre : the immense resources of the us proved decisive - the allied forces started pushing back the german army in the fall of 1918.
