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22 Cards in this Set
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The book concerns |
the interactionbetween economics and strategy, as each of the leading states in theinternational system strove to enhance its wealth and its power, to become richand strong |
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the collapse of powers |
hasto do with lost wars and failing economies relative to other leading nations,making peacetime an important component |
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the relative strengths of great powers |
never remainsconstant because of differing rates of growth among societies and newtechnologies --> The discoveringof the new world benefited some in E more |
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other competitive states in 1500 |
suffered from a centralized authority |
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warlike rivalries in Europe |
stimulatedconstant military improvements |
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The Haps steadily |
overextendedthemselves in the course of repeated conflicts and became militarily top-heavywith a weakening economy |
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Spain and the Netherlands |
took the back seat after 1600 with France, Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia emerging |
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B rose to the peak of its power |
between 1815 and 1914 |
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there is a strong correlation |
betweenthe eventual outcome of the major coalition wars for E or global mastery andthe amount of productive resources mobilized by each side – wars testcapacities of coalitions |
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In 1500 it was not clear that E was not the E never had a |
E would dominate most fertile or populous united ruler, secular or religious |
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The Weaknesses of Europe |
· 1500 dividesmodern and pre-modern times for the purposes of this book· It was not clearin 1500 that E would dominate much of the earth o At the time, Eseemed ahead of the west with fabulous wealth and armies· Europeanweaknesses: not the most fertile or populous area in the world (China andIndia), and geopolitically the continent of Europe was an awkward shape,bounded by ice and water to the north and west, open to landward invasion fromthe east, and vulnerable to strategic circumvention in the south o E feltvulnerable: Constantinople fell in 1453 to the OE; Vienna 1526o Europeanresponse was disjointed: unlike the OE and China, Europe was never united witha secular or religious leader – mix of kingdoms o Spain, France,England rising – but rivals, not allies against OE · Europe did nothave advantages in culture, mathematics, engineering, or navigational and othertechnologies – especially compared to Asia o E borrowedculture + science from Islam, just as Islam had from China · In retrospect, Ewas accelerating commercially and technologically by late 15th C |
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Between 1860 and 1914 |
the US increased its exports more than 7x |
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National Income in 1914 |
US 3x + bigger than everyone else |
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By directing troops at Verdun |
G made a mistake in losing so many troops and hurting its eastern campaign |
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Verdun and Somme |
were of a new order of magnitude in terms of firepower employed and losses sustained |
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Between 1689 and 1815 |
Seven major B F wars fought |
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British economy didn't crumble during Napoleonic wars because it was |
well into the Industrial Revolution |
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Crimean War made clear But at Sinop Russia was technologically lacking in |
a relative decline in Russian power Russians destroyed Ottoman fleet Having no rails south of Moscow - had to carry supplies by horse! |
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US navy at the end of world war II and there were ____ B 29s |
was second to none - had 1,200 war ships 1000 |
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Aircraft production in 1944 |
US produced nearly 100k compared to 40k G |
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Because of men, tank, artillery, and plane superiority, Red Army could afford |
losses at a ratio of 6 to 1 |
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National Income in 1937 |
US 3+ x that of anyone else |
