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What dies Roy Rempel say about Canadian national interest? |
Must be for protecting and promoting security and prosperity of Canada and Canadians |
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What does Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute say about Canadian Nationalism? |
Internationalism and helping others |
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What is a foreign policy? |
Action a nation state takes in conduct with other nation states or international organizations |
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What may result from conflicting national interests? |
Conflicts |
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What is a great power? |
Nation state wielding influence on global scale |
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6 tools of foreign policy |
Treaties, diplomacy, foreign aid, military forces, tariffs and trade, NGOs |
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What did Gabrilo Princip do to spark WW1? |
Kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austro-Hungarian throne |
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What did Austria-Hungary do leading to WW1? |
Declare war on Serbia |
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What did Russia do leading to WW1? |
Defend Serbia to gain influence in Balkan region |
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What did Germany do leading to WW1 |
Declare intention to stand by ally, Austria Hungary, declare war on Russia. Russia ignored warnings and mobilized troops |
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What was the Schlieffen Plan? |
Led to WW1, Germany attacks France by going through Belgium and Holland |
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What did Britain do leading to WW1? |
Declare war on Germany in response to Schlieffen plan to defend Belgium neutrality and help France |
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What did Italy do leading to WW1 |
Declare war on Austria Hungary, join Triple Entente |
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What 4 main ideas came from Fourteen Points program for peace toward end of WW1? |
Free trade, open agreement, self-determination, protection of human rights |
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What was negotiated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919? |
Treaty of Versailles |
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Who was the leader of France? |
Georges Clemenceau |
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Who was the leader of the U.S? |
Woodrow Wilson |
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Who was the leader of Great Britain? |
David Lloyd George |
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Who was the leader of Italy? |
Vittorio Orlando |
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What did France want from the Treaty of Versailles? |
Revenge against Germany, security |
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What did the U.S.A. want from the Treaty of Versailles? |
Humane treaty with Germany, don't punish and humiliate them |
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What did Britain want from the Treaty of Versailles? |
Just reparations, safe access to colonies |
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What did Italy want from the Treaty of Versailles? |
Land, the Dalmatian coast |
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What were the nations at the Paris Peace Conference Called? |
The big 4 |
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What 2 things ended up being in the Treaty of Versailles? |
Revenge and punishment |
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What are reparations? |
A payment forms wrongdoing |
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How much did Germany pay? |
$33 billion |
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What foreign policy did USA follow after WW1? |
Isolationism |
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What is expansionism? |
Policy promoting territorial or economic expansion, often forcibly over less powerful nations. |
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Who did Italy invade in 1935? |
Abyssinia and Somaliland |
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What was proved about the League of Nations? |
Not dangerous |
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Who was Germany forbidden to unite with due to the Treaty of Versailles? |
Austria |
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What was Hitler's priority? |
Unite all German speaking people |
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What principle was Hitler's priority based on? |
National self-determimation |
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Why did Hitler go to jail? |
Failed coup d'etat |
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What did Hitler write in jail and what was it about? |
Mein Kampf (My Struggle). Talked about how to undue injustices of Treaty of Versailles and regain a strong position for Germany |
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What was Germany's resolve due to reliance on neighbours for resources? |
Become self sufficient in resources |
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How did the Great Depression affect Britain and France? |
Unemployment, lost savings, collapsed banks, population demanding military money used to put people back to work |
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In 1936, what did Butler do and what did Britain do? |
Raised an army of almost 1 million, order Rhineland to remilitarize. Britain took no action |
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What did Hitler do in 1938 and what did Britain and France think? |
German union with Austria complete, they rationalized that they were German speaking anyways |
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What happened to Czechoslovakia and how did Britain and France react? |
Germany was to take it after Austria. Britain and France alarmed at possibility of war |
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What was decided at the Munich Conference? |
The Sudtenland (from Czechoslovakia) given to Germany |
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What is appeasement? |
Policy of avoiding further arguments or war by accepting conditions or demands of an aggressor |
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What historical pursuits of national interests and foreign policy does this chapter focus on? |
WW1 peace settlements and contributing factors to WW2 |
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5 Factors to pursuit of national interests shaping foreign policy? |
Nation needs, relationships with nations with opposing ideologies, justifying nation needs and goals, identifying nation goals, relationships with nations sharing ideologies |
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5 Events leading to WW1? |
Nationalist rivalry, clashing imperialism (control of colonies), extreme militarism, Morocco and Balkans crisis cost prestige to superpowers causing bitterness and frustration, alliances divide Europe into Triple Entente and Triple Alliance |
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Who made up the Triple Entente in WW1? |
Britain, France, Russia |
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Who made up the Triple Alliance in WW1? |
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy |
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What is imperialism? |
Domination of a country over another's economic, political, or cultural institutions, without actually seizing government control |
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What did Germany, Italy, and Japan need for their goals, and for what purpose did they need this? |
They need land for empire building, resources, and markets |
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After Japan's isolation ended, what did they lack? |
Advanced technology |
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What right and obligation did the Japanese government believe they had? |
Colonize the Pacific and liberate other Asian nations from European and American domination |
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What was the Japanese domination of East Asia called? |
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere |
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What resources did Manchuria have that Japan needed to be self-sufficient? |
Iron ore, coal, arable land |
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What happened in 18 September 1931? Who was to blame and consequences from the League of Nations? |
Japanese South Manchurian Railroad bombed. Japan was to blame and no consequences |
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Why couldn't the League of Nations do much? |
Great Depression wrecked havoc on economies and lack of will or support from the people |
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After Japan removed itself from the League of Nations, what did it do? |
Attack China and plan to invade other Pacific countries |
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What was the colonizing period in Africa and what motivated it? |
The Scramble for Africa. Was motivated by economic reasons and competition against other European nations to build |
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Who was Italy's leader 1922? |
Benito Mussolini |
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What is Fascism? |
Absolutism by the rulers of the country. Nation needs over individual needs. Propaganda used |
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What were Italians faced with after WW1? |
Inflation, less trade, unemployment |
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Why did Italy feel wronged from the Treaty of Versailles? |
They didn't get their land |
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What would overseas colonies bring Italy? |
Prestige, wealth, prosperity |
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What was Mussolini's dream? |
Rome once again has colonies throughout Africa and Middle East |
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When did America join the Allies in WW1? |
1917 |