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Explore key events in international system development from past centuries to the present day, covering pivotal moments such as the Treaty of Westphalia, colonialism, World Wars, Cold War era, and the rise of global organizations.
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Key Events • The Beginning • 18th & 19th Centuries • 20th & 21st Centuries
The Beginning Why is this building, the Friedensaal, significant to international relations?
Treaty of Westphalia Signed in 1648- ended the 30 Years War
Treaty of Westphalia-1648 3 things came out of the Treaty: Sovereignty States System
Multipolar System of Europe Power Pole Power Pole Power Pole Growing Power 4+ Power Poles = Multipolar System Growing Power Power Pole
Evolution of Popular Sovereignty • Raison d’état(‘Requirements of the State’) • Divine Right of Kings • Challenges to raison d’état • ‘Popular’ sovereignty • American, French Revolutions http://dm-fa.org/academic/gerome2.html#11 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/13/156722719/let-them-eat-kale-vegetarians-and-the-french-revolution
European Domination Scientific & Technological Advances • Naval Technology • Guns & Gunpowder • Industrial Revolution Colonialism & Imperialism • What are these? • Berlin Conference (1884-85) • Where? ¤
Africa • Britain • France • Germany • Italy • Belgium • Portugal
Asia • Britain • Netherlands • France • U.S. • Japan • Russia
Among the terms of the Versailles Treaty were: • Surrender of all German colonies • Return disputed territories to France, Belgium, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland • German reparations of £6,600 million (~ US 10.7 B) • An acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war • Limit army and navy troop sizes • No tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft , no airships, naval vessels under 100,000 tons, no submarines • Germany signed the Versailles Treaty under protest. The US Congress refused to ratify the treaty. • Excerpt from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWversailles.htm WWI • Treaty of Versailles • War Reparations • League of Nations • Empires end • Ottoman • Austro-Hungarian ¤ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Gap_in_the_Bridge.gif
Ottoman Empire from 1807-1924 • When the war started, the Ottoman Empire included: • All of Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Romania, Slovenia, Syria, Turkey • Large parts of Egypt, Iraq, Libya
Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867–1918 • All of Austria, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, • Parts of Romania, Poland, Germany, Italy, Ukraine
Post - WWI • Rise of Communist Russia • Bolshevik Revolution • Rise of German nationalism Either Death to Capitalism or Death by Capitalism
Post - WWI • The Great Depression • Munich Conference • Sudetenland • Appeasement Policy • Rising Soviet Union Neville Chamberlain ‘appeasing’ Hitler, 1938
WWII • European Theater of Operations • Pacific Theater of Operations
Post - WWII Bretton Woods Conference -1944 • Int’l Monetary Fund (IMF) • Financial stability • World Bank (WB) • Development ¤
Post - WWII United Nations- 1945 • Purpose • Structure • UN General Assembly • Secretary General • UN Security Council • 5 + 10 = 15 • Saudi says no • Issues • Security • Human Rights • Environment ¤
Post - WWII UN Charter • Self-determination • US/ SU push • Decolonization ¤ http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Newsom/newsom-con3.html
US v. SU= Bipolar System Growing Power Superpower Pole Growing Power 2 Power Poles = Bipolar System Growing Power Superpower Pole Growing Power
Cold War Era • U.S. Containment • Korea, Vietnam • Cuban Missile Crisis -1962 • ‘Globalization’ begins • Nixon goes to China -1972 • Berlin Wall is torn down -1989 • Eastern Bloc follows • Fall of the Soviet Union -1991 • Back to multipolar system ¤
Post-CW Era • European Union - 1992 • Maastricht Treaty • Expansion • Adoption of euro-1999 • World Trade Organization (WTO)-1995 • WTO at 153:22 • Free trade • Disputes ¤