POS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pressure Cooking, Revanchism, Hegemony
19 Jan 2018
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Lecture #12: case studies of germany, turkey, and russia. Victors: france, britain, italy, serbia, japan, russia, (us late) Slow collapse of austria-hungary and ottoman empire (turkey) Discredited by signing treaty of versailles: weakened by reparations of france and uk; loss of empire in europe, africa, pacific. Devastated by high inflation and unemployment (great depression) Unable to stop street fighting between nazis and communists. Anti-semitic (blaming jews); anti-slav; anti-roma (gypsy); anti-black. Machtpolitik (power politics): extreme version of realism. Victors: usa, ussr, france, uk, china (big five) Need for natural resources and markets in japan. League of nations had no power to stop aggression and violation of treaties. Holocaust in nazi death camps (at least 6 million killed) Primarily jews but also poles, russians, roma (gypsies), and undesirable germans (homosexuals, birth defects, etc. ) Destruction and occupation of germany and japan. Division of germany and korea between communists and non-communists. Expansion of ussr in europe and asia.
