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- 1What was the dominant global economic order?Moving towards reduction of fair trades (more regional trade agreements & less international ones)
- 2How does economics impact the practice & outcomes of politics?-trading with other states, you can actually create more wealth than previously existed
-Tariffs-protect internal markets from outside competition
-U.S has service based economy, & extremely high-tech
-What hood you ship over seas, & what good represents the wealth of your country has far reaching ramification in term of your politics
-What your country produces has an impact on who influences policy, & who you interact with internationally - 3How do wealthy states interact with poorer ones?-Buy & sell goods like any country
-Refine technological products
-Education (U.S trains Ethiopian citizens here & then they go back to work in Ethiopia)
-States that are largely agrarian in the world export raw goods that are then purchased in a high income world & are processed,, than sold for a higher profit than original market - 4Marxist IR theory-Majority of people control means of production
-division of world based on economic status
-wealthy capitalists created state system as way to ensure wealth would grow - 5Dependency Theory-Higher income countries want to keep low income countries poor so that they can keep buying from them, & if people want to buy a product, they have to buy it abroad
-System relies on countries outside of core to be making raw goods at a very high rate for such a low cost that the core is able to maintain wealth - 6Critical Theorylooks at why we think the way we think, & what were the moments that created the system that we enjoy today
- 7Post-modern IR Theory-Modern state system started in 1648 (Peace of Westphalia)
-Looks at discourse & language we used to talk about international relations & the symbols we employ - 8Why does the Westphalian nation-state system exist?The principle of state sovereignty, the principle of equality of states, & the principle of non-intervention of one state in the international affairs of another
- 9What are the grand challenges of our times?Terrorism, global public health, climate change & conservation issues, etc.
- 10Are states capable of addressing those challenges?-Not easy to make a global agreement
-Isolated issue with immediate results is basis for many challenges of our time
-Carbon in the air today comes from our factories - 11What was the political system in the Americas like before the Revolutionary War?-Three big competing powers & each power had colonies
-British colonies=original 13
-Unlike other colonies, British were very hands off because the inhabitants of the 13 colonies were British subjects (given free reign because of that citizen status)
-Control increased because of 7 year war
-largely home ruled by colonies before British arrived - 12Key international players in 18th centuryAustria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France & Britain
- 137 Years War-1756-1763
-1st real global war
-British/colonists defeated French & their Native American allies
-Spain came to get Louisiana territory from France
-Taxation w/ out representation (British denied US to be a part of Britain but agreed on taxation) - 14How did French involvement shape American Revolution?-colonists were unorganized
-Jefferson & Adams worked quickly to establish governing bodies (centralized decision making apparatus & raise formal army= all require taxation)
-Gained independence & their own representation - 15In what ways was the American Revolution a European war?-Turning point=Battle of Serotoga from 1777-1778
-British Empire face alliance of 3 European powers - 16What did the Federalists & others assume America's rapid population growth would do for a societal development?-Thought growth would allow us to take on more characteristics
-There would be more of a high society of wealthy individuals
-Jefferson thought limited government was the best form of government - 17What were the foreign policy differences between the early Republicans & the Federalists? & How does this reflect both US society then & now?Federalists faced East (looked to Europe) & Republicans faced West (looked for a limited central control & a government made up of more powerful individuals)
- 18What was the US first overseas military engagement?-Barbary War (1801-1805)
-American boats were being apprehended by Barbary pirates
-US paid Libya about a million dollars a year to not apprehend goods & enslave sailors
-10% of U.S operating budget was going to keeping sailors safe in Mediterranean - 19Empire of Liberty-Idea of very little interference in day to day life from the government
-Jefferson thought geography didn't matter much & all that mattered was that you were involved with self government, & doing honest work - 20What did the federalists vs. Jeffersonians think of Louisiana Purchase in 1803?-Jeffersons: Excited because this was part of expanding west & would improve American culture of wanting to be less governed
-Federalists: did not want to take territory because they wanted to face East in Europe & wanted to have a market economy - 21US attitude towards SpainMore or less sitting around waiting for Spanish empire to die
- 22Jefferson's attitude toward Native Americans west of 13 colonies & what their integration meant for US-Colonists turn men into primal beings
-US government wanted to incorporate Americans along border into society to give them modern knowledge
-If US could show that Native Americans were just like Europeans it would solve things
-U.S ended up million millions of people with violence, disease, enclosure & forced migration
-Ruined what Native Americans knew (plants, herbs, animals, & farming) - 23Peace of Westphalia-1648
-End of 30 years war
-Treaty that ended the war established principles that created modern day state system
-Defined soveriegnty & shaped borders - 24What is the goal of the states?to survive
- 25How do states survive?social contract between governed & governors, having a strong military, accidents of geography (being surrounded by water), alliance strategies such as balancing, bandwagoning, & deterring, protecting borders, providing essential goods & services to people, maintaining trade
- 26Bandwagoninglinking up with a power much stronger than yours that has the same foreign policy goals
- 27balancingcoming together to create shared foreign policy goals
- 28deterringcreating a strong army to deter others
- 29state survival & human survival-in late 80's when soviet union started to crumble, everyone was happy to have one powerful thing in charge
-peace dividend- what the people would get for having a powerful thing in charge with no real threat - 30is internation relations a zero-sum game?-realist perspective: yes, international politics is a zero-sum game (finite amount of goals in the end)
-liberalism perspective: accepts that system is anarchic, but does not accept zero-sum game (believe in progress & international relations can be cooperative) - 31what in the system ties states together?-Every gain for one state=loss for another
-Economic ties (Terrafree, Napatie), movements of ideas & people, military ties, authorization of groups of people - 32League of Nationsphysical space where countries could trade deals, air grievances, & negotiate with one another
- 33Is the structure of the system static or flexible?-constructionists: not static, flexible
-Realist & liberal- static - 34Actors in international systemstates, businesses, operate across boundaries, non-governmental organizations, intergovernal organizations
- 35who governs the globe?realists opinion: only actors who matter are states
liberalist opinion: get something out of integrating with larger groups of people
global governance opinion: recognizes that though states are important we don't understand how it works yet - 36Why did William Clairborne have so much trouble governing Louisiana?-Louisiana was a very different place after it was purchased
-Wasn't used to dealing with binary system of race (either black or white & blacks were slaves) - 37How does early American foreign affairs reflect current foreign affairs?-constant debate over who should govern & who should be governed
-Federalists always wanted the country to be governed by rural areas (pro slavery & pro putting power into poor persons hands)
-Imperialism - 38What precipitated the war of 1812?-Trade restrictions in Atlantic
-Impressment of US sailors
-British could dictate whether or not American goods were allowed to cross Atlantic because they had more ships (blockading & dictating back on land)
-1803-1812=10,000 sailors were forced into British navy - 39Chesepeake-Leopard Affair-2 naval cruisers that came into contact off coast of maine
-British ship (leopard) aimed its guns at the Chesapeake & American sailors were taken on to British ship - 40How did Jefferson respond to the Chesapeake-Leopard affair?Economic embargo-stopped almost all legal trade in & out of US
- 41How did Embargo Act of 1807 impact US economy?-Took money out of hands of men & women in US
-Places fell into deep economic depressions
-Trade restrictions were part of British's larger foreign policy act of restricting Napolean - 42How did Embargo Act of 1807 reflect Jefferson's political views?Farming was way to go & trading was bad, & no matter what politicians say they seem to act differently once they get into office
- 43Why was impressment an important factor leading to the War of 1812?-as many as 10,000 US sailors had been impressed
-National pride/respect for other nations
-violation of sovereignty - 44In which areas did the War of 1812 take place?Canada, naval blockade on east coast of gulf of Mexico, Mid-Atlantic, Gulf Sates, & US
- 45How did the War of 1812 end?Treaty of Ghent in 1814
- 46How did the War of 1812 change US relations with the other powers?-End of impressment
-Everything went back to normal - 47Monroe Doctorine-1823
-Declaration of US intent to be regional hegemony in Americas
-Right of free trade around American continents & any place on American continent was no longer subject to control dominance by an new colonies
-Any European military presence in Western Hemisphere was considered a threat to US and US did not interfere with what they already have & any country within the Americas that declares independence from European power will no longer have to abide by the European power - 48Without formidable Army & Navy, how was US to enforce Monroe Doctrine?-Alignment with British interests
-Expansion of free trade
-Relative weakness of European competitors - 49Manifest DestinyExpansion of Us imperialism (term was first coined by The Democratic Review)
- 50Who support Manifest Destiny?Western land speculators, railroad promoters, small farmers, northern wage earners
- 51How did slavery question impact westward expansion?-Will new states become slave states or will they be free states?
-Northern states outlawed slavery
-Slave trade was outlawed in southern states but slavery was legal - 522 major kids of expansion advocated by political leaders?territorial & cultural/economic
- 53How did president polk use different kinds of foreign policy to get Oregon & Texas into US?-Oregon was a secret compromise amidst bluster
-Texas was secret militarism amidst negotiation - 54What were significant outcomes of the Mexican American War (1846-1847)?-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
-Completed dominance of US across North America from East to West - 55Was the foreign policy an important part of the American Civil War?-No, Foreign aid confederacy strengthened the union
- 56What event marks the end of the internal frontier & the end of Indian Wars?-Wounded Knee in 1890
-Indiscriminate slaughter of as many as 300 Lakota, and the last major confrontation between US government & tribal authorities - 57What does Howard Zinn think precipitated the expansion of US beyond its borders?expansion of capital & profit
- 58Where were the majority of instances of US foreign intervention of the 19th century?Latin America
- 59What were the three main political ideologies informing America's expansion question?imperialists, anti-imperialists, & open door advocates
- 60ImperialismExpansion of US territory based on Manifest Destiny, racial superiority, American "exceptionalism" (Teddy Roosevelt)
- 61Anti-imperialismExpansion of democracy abroad, but not US territory; liberty vs. conquest (William Jennings Bryan)
- 62"Open Door" policyExpansion of US commercial interests abroad; free trade; naval power (Carnegie & Rockefeller)
- 63What as the Cuban Revolution, and how did it lead to the Spanish-American War?-Populist revolt of indigenous Cuban factions & former slaves
-Anti-imperial revolution
-No recognition as Cubans as belligerents (fighters) - 64What event precipitated the Spanish American War in 1898?Explosion of USS Maine
- 65Aftermath of Spanish American War-Teller Amendment guaranteed Cuban independence, but not its form of government
-Cuban rebel army not allowed to enter conquered capitol
-Platt Amendment 1901 guaranteed capitalist regime in Cuba, American business flooded in
-Treaty of Paris gave US Puerto Rico, Guam, & Philippines - 66Situation in Philippines in 1898-Had been fighting Spanish
-US gave very limited self government
War between Philippines & US from 1899-1902 - 67Great White Fleet (1907-1909)-Show of American naval power
-Fitting the mold of an imperial power - 68Panama Canal-Massive construction project initiated by French & taken over by US
-Made for a faster passage from Atlantic to Pacific - 69International Institute for Agriculture-Founded by David Lubin & funded by King of Italy (1904)
-Became Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1944 - 70What new great power entered global politics in the late 19th century?-German Empire
-defeat of Austro-Hungarian Empire & rise of Prussian (Kingdom of Prussia) dominance over German-speaking peoples at Battle of Sadowa in 1866 - 71Franco Prussian War 1870-1871-German victory over French
-Use of artillery rifles (which were new) & mitrailleuse/machine gun - 72How did Franco Prussian War impact future of military engagement?-Showed benefit of mass conscription
-Use of transportation infrastructure in war
-Use of the Prussian "general staff" theory & practice of command
-War foreshadowed wars that came afterwards
-General staff theory deeply centralized military operations - 73Aftermath of Franco-Prussian War-Birth of newest & possibly greatest power
-Change in European balance of power (Germany empire becomes greatest land power)
-Alsace-Lorraine goes to Germany
-Put pressure on colonial empires to solidify their holding in the face of new rival - 74Scramble for AfricaRapid colonization, establishment of authority, & economic integration of Africa into European imperial powers (1880-1914)
- 75What Caused Scramble for Africa?-Different opinions: search for markets & European made goods during long depression, search for security, & Capitalism vs. colonies
- 76How was Scramble for Africa legally formalized?-Berlin Conference 1884-1885
-Principle of Effective Occupation
-Treaties with locals
-Flying flag
-Set up local administration - 77What international & national dynamics led to First World War?-Changes in balance of power
-Complicated alliance systems
-Historical relationships between powers
-Contention over Africa
-Imperial maintenance - 78Franz Ferdinand & his death-He was heir to Austro-Hungarian empire
-Murdered in Sarajevo during a tour
-Assassin (Gavielo Princep) was a national & part of "The Black Hand"
-His death was one of history's grand accidents - 79Why would a major power invading a minor power spark a World War?-Historic ties
-German'ys Schlieffen plan to be able to fight French & Russians seperately
-Very unclear on which side British would commit after this - 80Chess pieces of World War I-Entente (triple alliance)
-France: approx. 4 million soldiers
-UK: approx. 1 million soldiers
-Russia: approx. 6 million solders - 81Central Powers of World War I-Germany: approx. 4.5 million soldiers
-Austria Hungary- approx. 3 million soldiers
-Ottoman Turks: approx. 210, 000 soldiers - 82Players of World War I-France: Joffre
-UK: Sir French
-Germany: younger Von Moltke
-Russia: Grand Duke Nicholas
-Austria-Hungarian: Von Hotzendorf - 83Result of World War I-French lost 140,000 men between August 22nd & 26th
-In 1914 the French & the Germans are spending 30,000 men a day - 84How were armies of 1914 able to lose tens of thousands of men in a day & continue?-Population growth
-Superior methods of organization & recruitment (mass conscription)
-Strength of nation-state - 85Woodrow Wilson & how he reoriented the US role in global affairs-1st Democratic president since mid 19th century
-Fiercely internationalist
-American exceptionalism to the extreme - 86What was the goal of American foreign policy under Wilson?-Disavowed gunboat Diplomacy
-Political "guidance" for Latin America, but more interventions than either Roosevelt or Taft - 87How did Wilson's program of intervention impact Latin America?-Declared "moratorium on revolution" in Dominican
-Wilson plagued by cultural blindness & racism
-Liberty vs. Coercion
-War in Mexico - 88What does Mexican invasion teach us about Wilson's conduct of foreign affairs?-Invaded & occupied Veracruz to "show" Mexico how to run it: roads, lights, schools, sanitation, health programs, rule of law...
- 89What was Wilson's true neutrality in 1914, & how did that work out for him?-proved impossible
-Favored allies with cash loans & goods
-Didn't stop British Blockade of Europe
-Did respond to German U-Boat response - 90What were the Luistania, the Arabic, the Sussex?Ships carrying Americans that were destroyed by U-Boat attacks in 1915-1916
- 91Wilson's response to U-Boat attacks in 1915-1916Threaten Germany with war; Germany relents, but Wilson is now dug into a less maneuverable position (he wanted to arbitrate)
- 92How does Taft (republican leader) respond to Louisiana crisis?-Proposed World Parliament for international law & conflict arbitration
-sides with Wilson that conflict should be negotiated & further conflicts should be avoided - 93What were the two branches of US foreign policy thoughts regarding WWI before 1917?-Isolation emerges in earnest for the first time
-Response to emerging internationalism
-Idea that US should lead an international organization that maintains peace
-Monroe Doctrine for world - 94Why did US enter great war?-Germany resumes unrestricted U-Boat warfare
-Zimmerman Telegram, Feb 1917 - 95How could US participation shape the post-war world?Wilson wanted chance to negotiate peace, & Germany rejected the US as a negotiator
- 96Treaty of Brest-LitovskSurrender treaty or Russia to Germany (Russians lose 1/3 of population, 9/10 of coal mines, majority of food & industrial capacity)
- 97Why does Germany surrender in 1918?-French colonial soldiers bolstering French & British armies
-US deploys in 1918 - 98What did Wilson want out of Treaty of Versailles?-Reformation of Germany & reintegration in a community of nations
-Emancipation of all peoples & end of colonialism - 99Sides of debate after Treaty of Versailles-Not isolation vs. internationalism
(whether US will focus inward or will it focus on rest of world) - 100Arguments against League of Nations-Too utopian
-Didn't go far enough to disarm combatants & create peace
-US shouldn't surrender sovereignty for any reason
-Mutual defense clause was too strong
-Unfair treatment of oppressed people - 101Events leading up WWI & WWII-World War I- central powers & allied powers (caused by assassination of Frances Ferdinand & political & economic instability in Germany)
-World War II- had modern methods of warfare; axis & allies (caused by League of Nations, & hyper-inflation- value of currency rapidly decreasing - 102Immediate aftermath of WWI-Demographic: approx. 60 million deaths
-"lost generation" of men (PTSD)
-Financial center of world shifts to New York from London
-indebtedness
-US has greater industrial output than next 6 powers combined
-American Century begins - 103Culture power of US increases (movies, art, literature)-Rise of American Soft Power
-Universities create World Politics programs (Tufts, Georgetown, etc) - 104What was US foreign policy like in the 1920's?-Maximization of security, minimization of commitment
-US is not a full member of League of Nations
-US meteoric rise in wealth due to US dominance in international trade - 105What were the important issues internationally in which the US was engaged?-How to use international loans
-Use loans to support political goals
-Use loans to support US economic development - 106Reduction of arms-Borah resolution
-Five Power Treaty
-Japan agrees in exchange for keeping the East Asia status quo - 107Key Resource for fighting wariron & oil
- 108European Reconstruction-US doesn't want to promote reindustrialization of Europe because then Euro companies would compete with US companies
-curious case of debt relief
-High tariffs to protect US markets - 109Dawes Plan of 1924-Overall deals with failures of Treaty of Versailles
-Gradual increase in the reparations payment in accordance with German resurgence
-200 million loan for Germany
-European countries have to purchase German-made goods - 110Treaty of Locarno-Overall resolves major issues from Versailles
-Formalize new Versailles borders
-France, belgium & Germany promise not to wage war on each other (Germany brought into League of Nations) - 111How war debt impacted international relations-Germans can't pay french, & french can't pay US
-France invades German industrial zone to reap economic benefits; hyperinflation in Germany - 112US beings to restructure & relieve European debt; but it's not enough-Barely any UK debt relieved
-75% of Italian debt cancelled, lower interest rates
-approx. 50% of French debt relieved, lower interest rates
-French started calling "Uncle Sam", "Uncle Shylock"
-Anti-semitism becomes important in late 1920's & 1930's - 113Flaws of US engagement with Europe Post World War I that helped set the stage for World War II-Failed to grasp sensitivity of recovery
-US didn't understand extent of war damage
-Failure to invent in new Eastern European countries & guarantee their borders
-Did not account for French sentiment regarding the "kind" treatment of Germany - 114How did US engage with the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?-did not recognize until 1933
-question of isolation or engagement
-heavy trading
-American Relief Administration during Soviet famine (1921-1923)
-50$ million dollar relief program unfettered by political considerations
-saved approx. 10 million lives - 115US rescues Japan following massive Earthquake-Unfettered aid again, US & Japanese relations at an all time high
-congress limits immigration; specifically all Japanese immigration
-Rise of hardliners & militarists in Japan - 116Munich Agreement Pact-1938 agreement between France, UK, German over future of Sudetenland
-claimed by Germany because of ethnic German population
-Appeasement: Germany will totally stop after this
-Germany gets exactly what it wants, Czech government finds that its military agreement with UK & France means nothing & concedes a wealthy region - 117"Peace in Our Time"Munich agreement
- 118Who was Dwight Morrow & what can he teach us about diplomacy?-Ambassador of Mexico
-Negotiated Cristero Rebellion
-"ham and eggs" diplomacy - 119How does US react to specter of war?-1935: Senate dictates mandatory embargo of shipments of arms or loans to belligerents once war is declared
-no u-boats in ports
-intense isolationism
-broad thinking: 'neutrality' in WWI forced US into war with allies
-Molotov-Ribbentrop Pacts of August, 1939 - 120How does fall of France change US foreign policy?-roosevelt starts lend-leasing military equipment
-moves neutrality zone all the way to iceland, reports u-boats to UK, moves troops into Greenland & Iceland - 121Why does US enter war?Attack on Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7th, 1941)
- 122Why did Japan attack?backed into a corner & US won't abandon China, though willing to abandon Euro colonial holdings in SEA
- 123In what way was the alliance awkward, like Herby and misfit elves?-communist empire with the proscribed goal of a global revolution
-last great colonial power
-anti-colonial capitalist power - 124stalingrad before the war-3 army groups
-3.2 men
-war is deeply racially motivated - 125stalingrad after the war-russian army keeps retreating and slain says he will shoot anyone who keeps retreating
-stalingrad=completely destroyed
-men are freezing to death in russia & are defending cities that are turning to rubble - 126what were the outcomes of the casablanca conference of 1943?roosevelt & churchill agree to unconditional surrender
- 127what were the outcomes of the Egypt conference?China, US, & UK agree to China's preeminent position in world politics after war
- 128What were the outcomes of the Tehran Conference of 1943?-Discussion of post war order
-dismemberment of germany between victors - 129Hot Spring Conference of 1943-all 44 allied nations
-establishment of Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - 130Outcomes of Bretton Woods Conference-Establishment of current international economic order
-IMF & IBRD - 131Outcomes of the Yalta Conference-unconditional surrender of Nazis, Germany to be split in 4 occupation zones
-denazification & demilitarization of Germany
-forced labor or Germans after the war
-USSR to participate in UN
-Nazi war criminals apprehended & tried
-Poland remains in soviet hands - 132Potsdam Conference of 1945-First & only meeting of the Second Big Three (Atlee, Truman, & Stalin)
-Germany had fallen & a massive Red Army was already in Germany, occupying all of Eastern Europe
-VJ day on horizon
-overall: meeting to discuss future of Europe, Germany, Asia, & globe - 133notable agreements that shape future-Vietnam partitioned in Northern & Southern administrative zones
-demilitarization, denazification, democratization, decentralization, & decartelization of Germany
-turning Germany into smaller, poorer, more agrarian country with limited industrial military capacity
-poland largely abandoned to soviets - 134potsdam declaration-call for surrender of Japan along similar terms to Germans
-occupation of Japan by allied forces
-Japanese military leaders to be tried for war crimes
-demilitarization of Japan & its economy - 135Nuremberg Trials-11/45- 10/46
-trials of 23 military & political leaders of the 3rd reich
-legal basis: joint allied control over Germany gave it the legal right to try German citizens under international & military law
-some 200 Germans eventually tried at Nuremberg (approx. 2000 in total) - 136Outcomes of Nuremberg-chronicle of Nazi atrocities
-new understanding of non-national laws
-heads of state are responsible to a 'higher court' for their actions against their own people
-many of International Criminal Tribunals followed - 137Notable figures tried at NurembergDoenitz, Frank Has, Goering,
Keitel, Franz von Papen, Ribbentrop - 138Tokyo Tribunals-Equivalent of Nuremberg in Japan
-Emperor Hirohoto & family escaped persecution
-unit 731 members & leader given immunity in exchange for data on live human experiments - 139impacts of Tokyo Tribunals-not as reputable as Nuremberg
-immunity of Shiro Ishii & Unit 731 members
-Yasukini Shrine (memorializing) - 140Outcomes of 2nd World War-Establishment of United Nations with P5
-UK economically exhausted
-European mainland devastated
-USSR has at least 40 million dead
-Korea split along 38th parallel
-German conquests returned to previous owners
-Colonialism is still not solved, but independence begins