Ss Team Lectures

Front 1

Malthusian Trap

Back 1

a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production

Front 2

Second Industrial Revolution

Back 2

Electricity, Transportation, (combustion engine led to the automobile) communication = wireless (1895)

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socioeconomic change

Back 3

moved into cities, people are more literate and dependent on a money economy

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age of steel

Back 4

machines make everything! merchants of death - arms industry goes HUGE (1850=creation of the rifle)

Front 5

WWI Industry (what was made)

Back 5

chemical industry, barbed wire, dynamite, sowing machines, (led to machine gun) modernization made it VERY easy to kill

Front 6

peace of paris

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The most important results included a harsh punitive peace that declared Germany guilty, weakened it militarily, and required it to pay all the costs of the war to the winners
14 points, L.O.N. (league of nations)

Front 7

Versailles Treaty

Back 7

A stab in the back for Germany, British forced Germans to sign by establishing a blockade - the Weimar republic agreed to treaty, leading to anti-government factions

Front 8

Fascists (Black)

Back 8

Mussolini, March on Rome - gained power by using the systen and demonstrating his hate of communism

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German Inflation

Back 9

1923 - benefits large manufacturing companies, the Weimar Republic ruined monetary policies; the wealthy were eager to jump aboard Nazism and try something new

Front 10

Spanish Civil War

Back 10

Franco establishes a dictatorship and otherthrows the Republic

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Axis Powers

Back 11

were those countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II.The three major Axis powers - Germany, Italy, and Japan

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GI Bill

Back 12

Application of Keynesisan Economics, help the soldiers returning home from war

Front 13

Baby boom

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1940s-60s - after depression creates growth of suburbia (automobiles and interstate highway)

Front 14

Finance Capital

Back 14

Bank capital + Industrial Capital

Front 15

New Nationalism, Von Trietschke

Back 15

"kultur" die for group

Front 16

JS Mill & WWI

Back 16

DIRECT evidence for tyranny of the majority

Front 17

Heilbron & Milberg

Back 17

inelastic demand, does not respond im proportion to price change (no farms were making money due to machines)

Front 18

Keynes

Back 18

General Theory of Interest, Employment..
solution = guided capitalism

Front 19

Roosevelt

Back 19

Government must solve problems for the people - need unity, morality, and decency

Front 20

Crystal Knatch

Back 20

1938

Front 21

Grand Alliance

Back 21

The end of the Grand Alliance was due primarily to a growing dissatisfaction amongst the British populace having to finance the wars abroad.

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The Cold War

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The conflict included costly defense spending, a massive conventional and nuclear arms race, and numerous proxy wars; the two superpowers never fought one another directly.

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Clash of Civilizations

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The Clash of Civilizations is a theory, proposed by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world

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Hybrid Regimes

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Hybrid regimes - combining democratic and authoritarian elements

"neoauthoritarianism"

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Indigenization

Back 25

Most changes in original culture occur when western corporations impose their products on other economies, Westernizing.

Front 26

Amy Chua - Market Dominance Minorities

Back 26

Chua explains, the ethnic-Chinese minority has far greater wealth than the indigenous majority, with the result being envy and bitterness on the part of the majority against the Chinese minority -- in other words, an ethnic conflict. She believes that democratization can increase ethnic conflicts when an ethnic minority is disproportionately wealthy. "When free market democracy is pursued in the presence of a market-dominant minority, the almost invariable result is backlash.

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Radical Islam

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The goal of radical Islam is world domination through global jihad

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The Good War

Back 28

The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two (1984) is a telling of the oral history of World War II written by Studs Terkel. The work won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It is a firsthand account of people involved before, during and after the war

Front 29

Ordinary Men

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Christopher Browing - During World War II, an ordinary battalion of German soldiers "cleansed" Poland as part of the Final Solution.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

Back 30

In many ways, the precipitating cause of World War I was the ethic of nationalism, the idea that competing nation-states were a fundamental part of existence, that one owed one's first loyalty to one's nation, and that one's national identity was the primary component of one's overall identity.

Erich Maria Remarque

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Robert J Lifton - Doubling/Biocracy

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doubling: the division of the self into two functioning wholes, so that a part-self acts as an entire self. An Auschwitz doctor could through doubling not only kill and contribute to killing but organize silently, on behalf of that evil project, an entire self-structure (or self process) encompassing virtually all aspects of his behavior.

Biocracy: German Idea based on purity, we want to be a "pure" nation - the jews are infecting us