POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Arms Race, Total War

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Prof. Monika Thakur

Document Summary

The cold war: recall: emergence of international society, world war i and ii (briefly, nuclear build-up, deterrence and arms control, post-cold war context, 9/11 and post-9/11. E. h. carr, what is history? (1961) (cid:862) tud(cid:455) the historia(cid:374) (cid:271)efore (cid:455)ou (cid:271)egi(cid:374) to stud(cid:455) the fa(cid:272)ts(cid:863) (cid:862)neutralit(cid:455) i(cid:374) histor(cid:455) is i(cid:373)possi(cid:271)le(cid:863) (cid:862)a historia(cid:374)"s u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g of the past is filtered through his (cid:449)orld(cid:448)ie(cid:449)(cid:863) (cid:894)a(cid:374)dres, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)6(cid:895) After napoleonic wars, concert of europe (1815-1914) Inter-war period (1919-1939) - (cid:862)20 years" crisis(cid:863), e. h. carr. * cold war (1945/1946/1947 1989/1991) * post-cold war. Total war (scott); 15 million killed: causes of war: structural (rise of german power; rigid alliance systems in europe triple. Inter-war period ((cid:858)20 years(cid:859) crisis(cid:859) e. h. carr) League of nations, 1920; failure collective security; great depression, 1929-39. Total war; 30-50 million killed; ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) (cid:449)eapo(cid:374)r(cid:455); ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455)"s rise a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)sio(cid:374)is(cid:373); Holocaust, 6 million dead: causes of war: individual; structural (problems with versailles treaty; late involvement by us and soviet union); domestic.