HIST 15200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World'S Columbian Exposition, American Imperialism, The Great Exhibition

• School: Purdue University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 15200
• Professor: Professor Kenn

Document Summary

-communist nations abandoning communism (soviet union, china, vietnam) -pro-democracy demonstrations sweep the communist bloc (soviet union, eastern. The democracy backlash in china (tiananmen square) Collapsed of the soviet union and communist bloc. -1991 coup and end of the soviet union. -democracy spreading throughout the globe (south africa & latin america) -clinton sought to promote human rights and settle long standing international conflicts (oslo accords 1993) -american embassies bombings in kenya and tanzania 1998. -second world trade center attack september 11, 2001. -focused on creating nuclear weapons to threaten strong leaders in the future from declaring war. Make war so terrible there was no need for a military (the new look) Peace corps improve the lives of people around the world. A(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a"s i(cid:373)age a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)ti (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)is(cid:373) strateg(cid:455) u(cid:374)der(cid:373)i(cid:374)ed glo(cid:271)all(cid:455) (cid:894)h(cid:455)po(cid:272)ris(cid:455)(cid:895) World"s fairs (cid:894)like fair grou(cid:374)ds e(cid:454)(cid:272)ept has pa(cid:448)ilio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d shops that (cid:272)o(cid:374)tai(cid:374) differe(cid:374)t (cid:272)ultures from around the world) (show new invention and technology) Example: london crystal palace exhibition 1851 (1st convention)