POSC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jean Bodin, Territorial Integrity, France 5
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Important intellectual development leading to the westphalia revolution. Waterloo: peace at the core of the european system, the five powers of europe (austria, britain, france, prussia, and russia) had the concert of europe, a period of relative peace in the international political system. 2: no major wars, or remained neutral. 6: two of the major conflicts involving the european states took place between germany and italy; very close to one another, the complex and crucial phenomenon of imperialism/colonialism. Industrial revolution provided european states with military and economic capacity to territorially expand. Independent european states, all with almost equal power feared the emergence of any predominant state among them: formed alliances to counteract any possibly powerful faction. Japanese surrendered: us dropped atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki on august 6th, japan surrendered august 15th, 1945, resulted in a major redistribution of power, all changes contributed to the cold war.
