HIST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 98: Tehran Conference, Cuban Missile Crisis, Yalta Conference
13 Dec 2016
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Enlightenment place individual in center, not king. Human rights: due process, no tyranny, democracy, freedom of speech, a value , a meaning cannot be empty rhetoric. Self-determination: self rule, a nation have rights to create own rules for its own ppl, not controlled by outside force ex)eu made of each state with self-deter. , succession, independence. Organizing principles from wwi wilson"s 14 pts, nation states; issue of autonomy, distapling. Sovereignty: ability of a state to enforce and exert its policy and authority over its territories without challenges (external and internal); it measures self-deter. Problem: countries messes with each other"s" affairs all the time. Africa"s border cross cut through diverse ethnics. Iraq- multiethnic and southern shia, middle sunni, north turks. Human rights: regardless of nationality, contentious and destaple principle, 20th century concept. Punish germany harshly blame germany for wwi, invasion of belgium international war, act of aggression. Predictor of un, important nations not included us, germany, soviet.
