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INTERACTIONS 1914 - Present

INTERACTIONS 1914 - Present. WAR DIPLOMACY. DRIFT TOWARDS WAR. Nationalism Spread by French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars Each ethnic group wanted a sovereign state (self-determination) Concept was ignored or opposed by dynastic powers Nationalist threats in multi-ethnic empires

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INTERACTIONS 1914 - Present

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  1. INTERACTIONS1914 - Present WAR DIPLOMACY

  2. DRIFT TOWARDS WAR • Nationalism • Spread by French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars • Each ethnic group wanted a sovereign state (self-determination) • Concept was ignored or opposed by dynastic powers • Nationalist threats in multi-ethnic empires • Slavic nationalism • Pan-Slavism stressed kinship of all Slavic peoples under Russia • In Turkey: Bulgars, Macedonians sought independence • In Austria-Hungary: unification with independent Serbia • Germany backed Austria-Hungary • Anglo-German Rivalry • The naval race between Germany and Britain increased tensions • German industrialization threatened British economic predominance • Colonial disputes of the late nineteenth century • Germany sought colonies at others expense • German resentment, antagonism toward both France, Britain • France, Germany nearly fought over Morocco in 1905 • Balkan wars (1912-13) strained European diplomatic relations • France, Great Britain, Russia came together to oppose Germany • Public opinion supported national rivalries • Attitudes of aggressive patriotism among European citizens • Leaders under pressure to be aggressive, to take risks

  3. COLONIAL EMPIRES, c. 1914

  4. ALLIANCES • Rival systems of alliance • Obligated allies to come to one another's defense • Included all great powers and many lesser powers • Even included Japan • The Central Powers • Germany and Austria-Hungary formed a Dual Alliance 1879 • In fear of France, Italy joined Dual Alliance, thus, Triple Alliance • Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Rumania loosely affiliated with Germany • The Allies • Britain, France, and Russia formed the Triple Entente, or the Allies • Shifting series of treaties ended with a military pact, 1914 • Belgium, Serbia linked to Allies • War plans: each power poised and prepared for war • Military leaders devised inflexible military plans and timetables • France's Plan focused on offensive maneuvers and attacks • Germany's plan: swift attack on France, defensive against Russia • Neutrals were not to be respected • Wars were to be swift and over by Christmas

  5. WORLD WAR I BEGINS • The guns of August - June 1914: Countries race towards war • The western front • Stalemate caused by new weapons • Bloodletting: long, costly battles • New technologies favored defensive tactics over offensive tactics • Armored tanks used to break down trenches toward end of the war • Airplanes used mainly for reconnaissance • Submarines • Used especially by Germans against Allied shipping • Unrestricted warfare against all vessels to isolate Great Britain • On the eastern front • Battle lines more fluid • Russians gradually overrun by Germans, Austria • New rules of engagement • Civilians became targets of enemy military operations • Air raids against civilians; naval blockades common • Total war: the home front • On the home front: the economy mobilized to the war effort • Women served the war by entering the workforce • Propaganda campaigns to maintain national support for the war

  6. WORLD WAR I OUTSIDE OF EUROPE • Expansion of the war beyond Europe • European animosities extended to the colonies • British and French forces recruited colonials into their armies • French African troops, British Indian troops saved their empires • Eventually, Japan, United States, Ottoman empire entered the war • Asia-Pacific • Japan entered war with Allies to get German holdings in Asia, Pacific • New Zealand, Australia seized German-held lands in the Pacific • The Twenty-One Demands • Japan advanced its imperial interests in China • 21 Demands were designed to reduce China to Japanese protectorate • Britain intervened, prevented total capitulation of China to Japan • The war in sub-Saharan Africa • Allies targeted the four German colonies in Africa • Togoland fell quickly, but not the others: long, protracted warfare • Many Allied soldiers and workers died from tropical diseases • Battle of Gallipoli, 1915, in Ottoman Turkey • British decided to strike at the weakest Central Power, the Ottomans • Battle of Gallipoli a disaster, with 250,000 casualties on each side • Weakened ties of loyalty between UK and its Dominions • The Ottoman empire lost ground after Gallipoli • Lost Caucasus to Russians • Armenian Holocaust: Turks killed more than 1 million, relocated many • Successful Arab revolt aided by British • By 1918, British occupied Fertile Crescent • Allies had secretly agreed to partition Ottoman

  7. END OF THE WAR • Russia • Revolution in Russia • February Revolution of 1917: uprising against shortages, mounting deaths in the war • Facing mutinies, Nicholas II abdicated throne; Provisional government established • Struggle for power between provisional government and Petrograd soviet • New government passed many liberal reforms • Did not undertake land reform, did not withdraw from the war • V. I. Lenin (1870-1924) stepped into unstable situation • A revolutionary Marxist, exiled in Switzerland • Saw importance of a well-organized, disciplined party for revolution • The October Revolution • Minority Bolsheviks gained control of Petrograd soviet • Bolsheviks' slogan "Peace, Land, and Bread" appealed to workers and peasants • Russia withdrew from war, made a separate peace with Germany • U.S. intervention • 1914-1916 • United States under President Woodrow Wilson officially neutral • American public opposed participation in a European war • U.S. companies sold supplies, gave loans to Allies • By 1917, Allied ability to repay loans depended on Allied victory • The submarine warfare helped sway American public opinion • German blockade sank merchant ships, intended to strangle Britain • 1915, Germans sank Lusitania, a British passenger liner, killing 1,198 passengers • United States declared war on Germany, 6 April 1917 • Collapse of the Central Powers • US produces food, engines, aircraft for all allies • US troops bolster Western front, stop German offensive • Allied troops on offensive in West, Balkans, Middle East, Italy • Germany was the last of Central Powers to seek armistice

  8. PARIS PEACE COFERENCE, 1919 • Wilson's 14 Points: proposal for a just and lasting peace • Free trade, arms treaties, rights for colonials, self-determination, association of nations • Most of the program rejected by Allies; Central Powers surrendered based on them • Results of War • Great War killed fifteen million people, wounded twenty million • Set stage for decolonization after World War II • Economic crises: inflation, debt, loss of investments, foreign markets • Economic relationship between Europe, US; United States now creditor • Loss of prestige overseas weakened European grip on colonies • Paris settlement was dominated by Britain, France, United States • Twenty-seven nations with conflicting aims participated • Leaders of Central Powers and Soviet Union not included • Peace largely dictated • The Peace Treaties, 1919 • French insisted on destroying German military • Central Powers forced to accept war guilt and pay reparations for cost of war • Austria, Hungary separated, reduced; new states added to eastern Europe • Overall, the peace settlement was a failure; left a bitter legacy • Self-determination for ethnic nationalities • Basis for redrawing map of Eastern Europe • Difficult to draw lines: minorities left in too many nations • Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumania were all multi-national • German, Italian, Hungarian minorities not granted self-determination • Colonial issues never discussed • Self-determination not granted for colonies • Revolutionary Ideas: Arabs, Asians, Africans Outraged • The war helped spread concept of self-determination • Nationalist movements also sought inspiration from the Soviet Union • Felt betrayed, ignored by their allies • Wanted independence from Ottomans, end of foreign concessions

  9. LEAGUE OF NATIONS • The League of Nations created to maintain world peace • Forty-two members, twenty-six of them outside Europe • Dominated by UK, France and used as force against Germany • The league had no power to enforce its decisions • League could only • Make suggestions • Impose sanctions • Blockades • Collective security depended on all major powers • Powers Left Out • United States never joined • USSR ignored • Germany not invited for some time • The mandate system • United States opposed direct colonization • Allies proposed system of trusteeships • France, United Kingdom benefited most • Created from German colonies, Ottoman territories in S.W. Asia • Idealistic Attempts • Attempts to disarm nations led to naval reduction treaties • Attempt to outlaw war led to Kellogg-Briand treaty • Many nations reduced their militaries to minimal levels

  10. LEAGUE OF NATIONS

  11. INTERWAR DIPLOMACY • Japan • Global conflict began with Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931 • League of Nations condemned action; Japan simply withdrew from league • 1937, Japan launched full-scale invasion of China • 1937 War In China Resumed • The Bombing, Rape of Nanjing characterized war waged against civilians • Nationalists and communists formed "united front" against Japanese • Unable to effectively work together, they conducted guerilla attacks • Communists gained popular support throughout war • Japan alliance with Germany, Italy, 1940; neutrality pact with USSR, 1941 • European aggression • Italy after the Great War • Italians felt slighted at the Paris Peace Conference • Mussolini promised national glory, empire • Annexed Libya; invaded Ethiopia (1935-1936), killed 250,000 Ethiopians; annexed Albania • Germany: deep resentment at Treaty of Versailles • Harsh terms: reparations, economic restrictions • Former Allies inclined not to object when Hitler violated terms of the treaty • Hitler blamed Jews, communists, liberals for losing the war and accepting the treaty • After 1933, Hitler moved to ignore terms of peace settlement • Withdrew from League of Nations, 1933; Rebuilt military, air force; reinstated draft • Took back the Rhineland, 1936; Austria, 1938; at each step, France and Britain did nothing • Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939 • Spanish fascists stage coup against republic; socialists and communists fight back • Italians, Germans, Russians helped each side but fascists won • The Munich Conference: Peace for our time? • In 1938, Germany "appeased" by taking Sudetenland, promised to stop there • Britain and France desperate to avoid war, appeased Hitler • 1939, violating Munich agreement, Hitler seized most of Czechoslovakia • Russian-German Treaty of Non-Aggression, 1939, shocked the world

  12. WORLD WAR II: AXIS 1939 - 1942 • Blitzkreig: Germany conquers Europe • Strategy of a "lightening war": unannounced, surprise attacks • September 1939, Nazi invasion of Poland • Battle of the Atlantic pitted German submarines against British convoys • Spring 1940 invasion led to the fall of France • The battle of Britain was a British victory against the German airforce • Germans and British fight see-saw war in the deserts of North Africa • The German invasion of the Soviet Union • Germany conquers the Balkans • German surprise invasion of Soviet Union, June 1941 • Blitzkrieg strategies less effective in Russia • Soviets drew on tremendous reserves: Hitler underestimated Soviet industrial capacity • Stalin moved Soviet industry east to the Ural Mountains • Russian winter caught German troops ill-prepared • Germans continue to press forward, try to seize Stalingrad • U.S. support of the Allies before Pearl Harbor • Roosevelt sold and then "loaned" arms and war material to the British • Later supplied the Soviets and the Chinese • Japanese expansion • Continued into southeast Asia: Indochina, 1940-1941 • United States responded by freezing Japanese assets, implementing oil embargo • Demanded withdrawal from China and southeast Asia • Prime minister Tojo developed plan of attack • 7 December 1941 • U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor attacked by Japan, U.S. naval power in Pacific devastated • United States declared war on Japan; Germany and Italy declared war on United States • Japanese victories after Pearl Harbor • Japan advanced swiftly in the Pacific and southeast Asia • Conquered Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Indochina, Burma, Singapore • Slogan "Asia for Asia" masked Japanese imperialism against fellow Asians

  13. WORLD WAR II: 1942 - 1945 • Impact of Soviet Union and U.S. entry in 1941 • USSR brought vital personnel and USA industry to Allies • Russia fielded 350 divisions against the German 130 • Germany forced to fight a two front war • German subs sank 2,452 merchants ships, but U.S. shipyards built more • Allied victories came after 1943 • Russians defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, pushed them back • 1944, British-U.S. troops invaded North Africa and then Italy • June 1944, British-U.S. forces invaded northern France at Normandy • Overwhelmed Germans on coast of Normandy, 6 June 1944 • Round-the-clock strategic bombing by United States, Britain leveled German cities • Germans surrendered unconditionally 8 May 1945; Hitler committed suicide • Turning the tide in the Pacific • Turning point: the Battle of Midway, June 1942; United States broke Japanese code • Island-hopping strategy: moving to islands close to Japan for air attacks • US launched unrestricted submarine warfare against Japanese empire • Split the Japanese empire in half when they seized the Philippines • British invade Japanese empire through Burma, SE Asia • Chinese nationalists, communists tie down 2 million Japanese troops • Savage fighting on islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa • US launches round the clock air raids against Japan • Japanese used suicide kamikaze pilots • Okinawan civilians refused to surrender • U.S. military was convinced that Japan would not surrender • Japanese surrender after devastating assault • U.S. firebombing raids devastated Japanese cities: in Tokyo, 100,000 killed • August 1945: atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed 200,000 • The Soviet Union declared war on Japan, 8 August • Japanese emperor surrendered unconditionally 15 August, ending WWII

  14. WORLD WAR II ALLIANCES

  15. HOME FRONTS • Occupation, collaboration, and resistance • Patterns of occupation varied • Japanese conquests: puppet governments, independent allies, or military control • German conquests: racially "superior" people given greater autonomy • Both Japan, Germany exploited conquered states, peoples • Slave labor conscripted from conquered populations to work in factories • Labor conscripted from Poles, Soviets, Balkans, also Chinese and Koreans • Many local people accepted, collaborated with occupying forces • In Asia, Japanese domination not much different from European domination • Others aided conquerors to gain power in new administration • Anticommunism led some in western Europe to join the Nazi SS troops • Resistance to occupation took many forms • Active resistance: sabotage, assaults, assassination • Passive resistance as well: intelligence gathering, refusing to submit • Resistance in Japan and Germany was dangerous and rare • Occupation forces responded to resistance with atrocities • Brutal reprisals to acts of resistance by both Germans and Japanese • Despite retaliation, resistance movements grew throughout the war • Women and the war • "It's a Woman's War, Too!" • Over half a million British, 350,000 American women joined auxiliary services • Soviet and Chinese women took up arms and joined resistance groups • Jewish women and girls suffered as much as men and boys • Women's social roles changed dramatically • By taking jobs or heading families, women gained independence and confidence • Changes expected to be temporary, would return to traditional role after war • "Comfort women" • Japanese armies forcibly recruited 300,000 women to serve in military brothels • 80 percent of comfort women came from Korea • Many were massacred by Japanese soldiers; survivors experienced deep shame

  16. SETTLEMENTS & COLD WAR • Soviet Union and United States vied for nonaligned nations • War left millions of casualties and refugees • At least sixty million people died in WWII, highest in Soviet Union and China • Eight million Germans fled west to British, U.S. territories to escape Soviet army • Twelve million Germans and Soviet prisoners of war made their way home • Survivors of camps and three million refugees from the Balkans returned home • The origins of the cold war (1947-1990) • Unlikely alliance between Britain, USSR, USA held up for duration of war • Not without tensions: Soviet resented U.S.-British delays in European invasion • Postwar settlement established at Yalta and Potsdam • Each Allied power to occupy and control territories liberated by its armed forces • Stalin agreed to support United States against Japan • Stalin's plans prevailed; Poland and east Europe became communist allies • President Truman took hard line at Potsdam, widened differences • Postwar territorial divisions reflected growing schism between USA, USSR • Soviets took east Germany, while United States, Britain, and France took west Germany • Berlin also divided four ways; by 1950 division seemed permanent • Churchill spoke of an "iron curtain" across Europe, separating east and west • Similar division in Korea: Soviets occupied north and United States the south • Truman doctrine, 1947: USA would support "free peoples resisting subjugation" • Perception of world divided between so-called free and enslaved peoples • Interventionist policy, dedicated to "containment" of communism • The Marshall Plan, 1948: U.S. aid for the recovery of Europe • Idea to rebuild European economies and strengthen capitalism • Soviet response: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) for its satellites • NATO and the Warsaw Pact: militarization of the cold war • 1949, United States created NATO, a regional military alliance against Soviet aggression • 1955, Soviets formed the Warsaw Pact in response • Two global superpowers protecting hegemony with alliances • United Nations, established 1945 to maintain international peace and security

  17. COLD WAR IN EUROPE • Postwar Europe • Divided into competing political, military, economic blocs • NATO, European Economic Communities • Warsaw Pact, COMECON • Neutral: European Free Trade Association; Yugoslavia • Western Europe • U.S. allies supported by permanent presence of American army • Parliamentary governments, capitalist economies • Eastern Europe • Dominated by Soviet Union, Red Army, secret police • Communist governments modeled after USSR dominate countries • Germany divided east and west in 1949 • Soviets refused to withdraw from eastern Germany after World War II • Allied sectors reunited 1947-1948, Berlin remained divided as well • Berlin blockade and airlift, 1948-1949 • Soviet closed roads, trains, tried to strangle West Berlin into submission • Britain and United States kept city supplied with round-the-clock airlift • Soviets backed down and ended blockade • The Berlin Wall, 1961 • 1949-1961, refugees from East to West Germany, East to West Berlin • Soviet solution: a wall of barbed wire through the city fortified the border • Former Allied nations objected but did not risk a full conflict over the wall • Nuclear arms race • Terrifying proliferation of nuclear weapons by both sides • NATO and Warsaw Treaty Organization amassed huge weapons stockpiles • By 1960s USSR reached military parity with United States • By 1970 both superpowers acquired MAD, "mutually assured destruction"

  18. UNITED NATIONS, 1945

  19. COLD WAR ALLIANCES WARSAW PACT ORGANIZATION COMECON NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION CENTRAL TREATY ORGANIZATION S.E. ASIAN TREATY ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

  20. THE COLD WAR WORLD, c. 1982

  21. COLD WAR CONFLICT • The Korea War, 1951-1953 • Korea divided at 38th parallel; U.S. ally in south, Soviet ally in north • North Korean troops crossed 38th parallel and captured Seoul, June 1950 • U.S. and UN troops pushed back North Korean troops to Chinese border • Chinese troops came in, pushed U.S. forces, allies back in the south • Both sides agreed to a cease-fire in July 1953, again at 38th parallel • Globalization of containment • Western fears of international communism must be contained • Creation of SEATO, an Asian counterpart of NATO • “Domino theory": if one country falls to communism, others will follow • Cuba: nuclear flashpoint • Fidel Castro establishes guerrilla force in mountains, 1953 • Overthrew dictator Batista in 1959 • Castro declared that his government would be socialist, angers USA • Castro seized U.S. properties, killed, exiled political opponents • United States cut off Cuban sugar imports, imposed export embargo • Castro accepted Soviet economic aid and arms shipments • Bay of Pigs fiasco, April 1961 • CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba failed • Diminished U.S. prestige in Latin America • Cuban missile crisis, October 1962 • Soviet deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at USA; claimed Cuban defense • Kennedy blockaded Cuba, demanded removal; two tense weeks • Khrushchev backed down; Kennedy pledged not to overthrow Castro

  22. DÉTENTE & DECLINE OF BIPOLAR WORLD • Era of cooperation • Leaders of both superpowers agreed on policy of détente, late 1960s • Exchanged visits and signed agreements calling for cooperation, 1972, 1974 • Concluded Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT), 1972, again 1979 • Demise of détente • Full U.S.-China diplomatic relations in 1979 created U.S.-USSR strain • U.S. weapons sale to China in 1981 undermined U.S.-Soviet cooperation • 1980 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan prompted U.S. economic sanctions • U.S. defeat in Vietnam • 1950s, United States committed to support noncommunist government in South Vietnam • U.S. involvement escalated through 1960s • United States and allies unable to defeat North and South Vietnamese communists • President Nixon pledged in 1968 to end war with Vietnam • U.S. troops gradually withdrew; U.S. phase of war ended in 1973 • North Vietnam continued war effort, unified the nation in 1976 • Soviet setbacks in Afghanistan • Afghanistan had been a nonaligned nation until 1978, pro-Soviet coup • Radical reforms in 1978 prompted backlash • Islamic leaders objected to radical social change, led armed resistance • 1979, rebels controlled much of Afghan countryside; USSR intervened • United States and other nations supported anti-PDPA rebels; struggle lasted nine years • 1989 cease-fire negotiation by UN led to full Soviet withdrawal • Taliban forces captured Kabul and declared Afghanistan a strict Islamic state, 1996 • Cold war countercultural protests in 1960s and 1970s • Cultural criticism of cold war as seen in film Dr. Strangelove, 1964 • European and U.S. students agitated for peace, end to arms race, Vietnam war • Rock and roll music expressed student discontent

  23. END OF COLD WAR • Revolution in east and central Europe • Moscow's legacies • After World War II, Soviets had credibility for defeating Nazis • Communism unable to satisfy nationalism in eastern and central Europe • Soviet-backed governments lacked support and legitimacy • Soviet interventions in 1956 and 1968 dashed hopes of a humane socialism • Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader 1985-1991 • 1989, Gorbachev announced restructuring of USSR, withdrawal from cold war • Satellites states informed that each was on its own, without Soviet support • Rapid collapse of communist regimes across eastern and central Europe, 1989 • In Poland, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa won election of 1990 • Communism overthrown peacefully in Bulgaria and Hungary • Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution" in 1990, divided into Czech Republic, Slovakia • Only violent revolution was in Romania; ended with death of communist dictator • East Germany opened Berlin Wall in 1989; two Germanys were united in 1990 • The collapse of the Soviet Union • Gorbachev's reforms • Gorbachev hoped for economic reform within political and economic system • Centralized economy inefficient, military spending excessive • Declining standard of living, food shortages, shoddy goods • Perestroika: "restructuring" the economy • Tried decentralizing economy, market system, profit motive • Alienated those in positions of power, military leaders • Glasnost: "openness" to public criticism, admitting past mistakes • Opened door to widespread criticism of party and government • Ethnic minorities, especially Baltic peoples, declared independence from USSR • Russian Republic, led by Boris Yeltsin, also demanded independence • Collapse of the Soviet Union, December 1991 • In 1991, conservatives attempted coup; wished to restore communism • With help of loyal Red Amy units, Boris Yeltsin crushed the coup • Yeltsin dismantled Communist party, led market-oriented economic reforms • Regions of ethnic groups became independent; Soviet Union ceased to exist

  24. GUERRILLA STRUGGLES • Definition • Small trained groups conduct military operations • Targets associated with government, economy • Avoid conflict with larger, regular military forces • Inspiration • Nationalism • Political Independence • Political Ideology • Religion • Previous Historical Examples • Dutch against Spanish, late 16th and early 17th century • Americans against British, late 18th century • Spanish against Napoleon, early 19th century • Russians against Napoleon, early 19th century • Boers against British in Boer War, late 19th century

  25. GUERRILLA MOVEMENTS: VIETNAM • Indochina was a French colony • Nationalist movements arrested by French • Model aims after Chinese nationalist parties • In 1940, Japanese occupy area in agreement with Vichy French • 1945 – 1959 • Ho Chi Minh founds Vietnamese Communist Party • Fought French, Japanese in World War II • Declared Vietnam independent in 1945 • French decided to reassert colonial rule • Viet Minh defeated French 1954 Dien Bien Phu • Vietnam partitioned at 17th parallel • 1959 – 1975 • US assumes roll of aid to anti-communist south • Viet Cong wage war against corrupt South Vietnamese state • Communist guerrilla movements in Laos, Cambodia, too • US troops reach 300,000 but cannot win war • 1968: Tet Offensive broke Viet Cong, US will to win • US eventually withdraws, South fights loosing battle • North Vietnam takes control of South in 1975 • 1979 Vietnam invades Cambodia • To displace murderous Pol Pot Regime • Khmer Rouge use guerrilla warfare against Vietnamese • Other Communist Guerrilla Movements • Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau against Portuguese • Yugoslavia, Albania against Nazi occupation

  26. RELIGIOUS GUERRILLA MOVEMENTS • Iran: 1953 – 1979 • Shah Reza Pahlavi • Modernization equals westernization; export of oil, military take top priority • Ruled with secret police, tyranny • Violent clashes between protestors, police • Ayatollah Khomeni • Traditionalist movement unites opposition; ousts Shah in 1979 • Established Muslim fundamentalist state • Takes US diplomats hostage in 1979, released 1981 • Actively sponsors Muslim terrorist groups abroad • HAMAS: Palestine; FPLO: Radical branch of the PLO • Hezbollah: Lebanon Shites; Islamic Jihad • Afghanistan: 1979 – 2002 • 1979: USSR invades to support pro-Soviet government • Mujahidin forces fight until 1989 • Communist regime collages 1992 after Soviets withdraw troops • 1996 Taliban Islamic Fundamentalist militia take control • Anti-western; anti-women; anti-democracy • Attacks images of west, non-Islamic culture (blew up Buddha statues) • Anti-any group which was not Muslim • Supports Islamic terrorist groups abroad (Osama bin Laden) • US topples regime after it supported 9-11 attacks on US

  27. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • Post-1945 • Era of international cooperation • Many global problems cannot be solved by national governments • Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) • Red Cross, an international humanitarian agency, founded 1964 • Greenpeace, an environmental organization, founded in 1970 • Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch • The United Nations • Founded 1945 "to maintain international peace and security" • Security Council • Permanent Veto Nations: UK, US, France, Russia, China • Not successful at preventing wars, for example, Iran-Iraq war • Often can diffuse tense situations • General Assembly • Each nation has one vote; poor, 3rd world nations dominate • Cannot legislate, but has influence in international community • Often used as a sounding board for world concerns, ignored by West • ECOSOC, UN Commission of Refugees, WHO • More successful in health and educational goals • Eradication of smallpox and other diseases • Decrease in child mortality, increase in female literacy • Human rights: an ancient concept, gaining wider acceptance • Nuremberg Trials of Nazis • Established concept of "crimes against humanity“ • Permanent court sits in Hague, Netherlands for war crimes trials • UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Forbids slavery, torture, discrimination • Guarantees basic human rights, freedoms

  28. GENOCIDES • Types of Murder • Genocide: Killing of a specific group of people, attempt to wipe out • Democide: Mass murder of people by government • Ethnic Cleansing: Term common when one group attacks, kills another • Armenian Holocaust • First genocide of 20th century • Turks killed 1.5 million Armenians for their support of Russians in World War I • The Holocaust • Long history of anti-Semitism • Created tolerance of Nazi's anti-Jewish measures • At first Nazis encouraged Jewish emigration • Many Jews were unable to leave after Nazis took their wealth • Nazi conquest of Europe brought more Jews under their control • The "final solution" • Began with slaughter of Jews, Gypsies, undesirables in Soviet Union • By 1941, German special killing units had killed 1.4 million Jews • By 1942 Nazis evacuated all European Jews to camps in east Poland • Jewish resistance • Will to resist sapped by prolonged starvation, disease • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: 60,000 Jews rose up against Germans • Altogether • About 5.7 million Jews perished; more than 2 million Poles died • Almost 98% of all Gypsies were murdered • Other Examples • Democides: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot (Cambodia), Zaire/Congo • Genocides: Rwanda, Sudan • Ethnic Cleansings: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kurds in Iraq

  29. 21ST CENTURY POWER BLOCKS

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