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Takeaways From This Week: - Ideologies of Modernity - Consequences of First World War
Takeaways From This Week: - Ideologies of Modernity - Consequences of First World War
Takeaways From This Week: - Ideologies of Modernity - Consequences of First World War
• Ideologies of modernity
this week
• Consequences of First World War
• Break up of some empires
• Russian Revolution and Communism as a world power
• US influencing international relations
• League of Nations
• National Sovereignty?
• International anarchy - Realism
Scott, L. (2020) Chapter 3: International
History of the Twentieth Century
• Questions:
• What were the causes of the Second World War?
• What was the effect of the Second World War on global international
relations?
Consequences of WW2
• Political
• Decolonisation – acceleration
• Two power blocks – US and USSR => bipolarity, Cold War
• Non-Aligned Movement
• NATO – pollical and military alliance
• Economic
• Economic crisis
• Marshall Plan (US) and Molotov Plan (USSR)
• Military
• NATO
• Development of nuclear weapons
• Intergovernmental organisations
• European Economic Community – which became European Union
Terms
• Nuclear deterrence – mutually assured destruction
UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• Adopted by the UN General Assembly 1948