HIS 1111 Lecture : Week 1 – A Long Dark Shadow.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Don't Know

Document Summary

Week 1 pillars of the postwar world (1945-1949) In the annals of human history, world war ii was unprecedented in terms of its global scope, savagery, destructive effects and the extent to which military might pursued ideological vision. Contemporaries perceived world war ii as a catastrophe. It was a hammer that shattered the preceding world order. Already during the war the grand alliance against hitler started to make plans for a new international system. Document was significant bc for the first time it was a blueprint for a redeeming world, for the future. Cast war as clash of civilizations: fascism versus democracy (reject tripartite act and axis new order) Promise to liberate victims of nazi tyranny. In watching contemporary footage you should consider the mindset of the immediate postwar period. 3. were malnourished or at the brink of starvation. The evil had to be addressed and extirpated: failure of capitalism: the war had obscured the problems of the great.