Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Anschluss, Nuremberg Trials, Mao Zedong
29 Jan 2013
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Review of week 1 (examples of exam term ids) Ended in response growing naval superiority from the united states and germany. British an empire where the sun never set the world"s first empire. Intended to preserve the balance of power in europe. Step-by-step strategy which included two major wars. Territorial expansion of germany in turn created a rigid alliance system. The industrial revolution spreads in europe and north america. Freedom of global trade is underpinned by the gold standard: each country"s currency was worth a certain amount in gold it was the underlying value for currency. This becomes very important when we study the international political economy. Nationalism encourages the promotion of domestic industries. By the end of the 1880s, free trade began to collapse. 1880s much of the undiscovered world had been colonized and therefore the chances of finding undiscovered land was low: cult of the offensive see notes.
