ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Structural Adjustment, Stock Market, Marshall Plan
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Think about some of the global institutions created after wwii that have been significant in managing and structuring the global economy . Next class think about what poverty is and how we should address it/have addressed it. Bretton woods (1944), before official end of war, was invented to prevent wwiii. The goal after wwii was to stop war from ever erupting again. Searched for causes: first world war (1914-8) leads directly to the second. The main legal instrument that concludes wwi is the: treaty of versailles: goal was to punish germany as severely as possible for having instigated wwi. treaty of versailles. Wanted to ensure that germany would not be able to arm itself, and continue on its path of domination. And also to embarrass and shame german population: treaty does 3 things: Germany can no longer be a colonial power. Rwanda and other african states are taken from.
