POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Arms Race, Total War, Arms Control
21 Oct 2018
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Pols 2940 introduction to international politics lecture week 4. International history: recall: emergence of international society, world war i and ii (briefly, the cold war, nuclear build-up, deterrence and arms control, post-cold war context, 9/11 and post-9/11. Study the historian before you begin to study the facts . A historian"s understanding of the past is filtered through his worldview (andres, 2016) World war i (1914-1918: total war (scott); 15 million killed, causes of war: structural (rise of german power; rigid alliance systems in europe triple. Inter-war period ( 20 years" crisis" e. h. carr: league of nations, 1920; failure collective security; great depression, 1929-39. World war ii (1939-1945: total war; 30-50 million killed; advances in weaponry; germany"s rise and expansionism; Holocaust, 6 million dead: causes of war: individual; structural (problems with versailles treaty; late involvement by us and soviet union); domestic. Post-1945: aftermath: bipolar world; nuclear arms race; creation of un, 1945.
