POLS 2880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Margaret Mcmillan, Nsc-68, Victory Over Japan Day
8 Sep 2017
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1917: us: not a political revolution, instead industrial revolution, was an emerging country before wwi, one of the first countries to industrialize, after wwi, equal to european powers, and about to overtake them, wwii, cold war. Scholars: no obvious explanation about why wwi happened, fritz fisher german historian, arguing that wwi was the fault of. Germany: they were the most aggressive state, had been planning for the war for the longest time, invested heavily in its military, aggressive war plans, 1960, was opposed by barbara tuckerman, the guns of august. 3: 1905, ten years before war, in those years before war, britain and. Germany engage in massive buildup of all steel warships. When its i(cid:374)trodu(cid:272)ed, britai(cid:374)"s (cid:374)a(cid:448)al ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tage is go(cid:374)e, the(cid:455) had (cid:271)ee(cid:374) usi(cid:374)g wood ships: british have to start from the beginning again. Post war: after napoleon 1815 post war settlement at peace conference, paris peace conference, 1918-19, all the major players come together.
