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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

1112 IDs

HIST 1112
Unit 3 Identifications

1. Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism as causes of WWI
2. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3. Triple Entente (leaders, countries, formation, and strategy)
4. Triple Alliance (same as above)
5. New technology and the world’s first industrial war (include Trench warfare)
6. Schlieffen Plan
7. Stalemate in the West
8. Bolshevik Revolution
9. U.S. isolationism and entrance into the war
10. Fourteen Points
11. Treaty of Versailles
12. Economic/Human costs
13. Legacy of WWI
14. Buying on margin, speculation
15. 1920s U.S. prosperity (boom and bust)
16. Consumer culture
17. Stock market crash
18. U.S. depression creates Global Depression (debt cycles)
19. Lenin’s communism to Stalinism
20. Fascism in Italy and the rise of Benito Mussolini
21. Russia in the Great Depression
22. Nazism in Germany and the rise of Adolf Hitler
23. Women in Fascist or Nazi governments
24. The New Deal and FDR as U.S. president
25. Caudillos, Peninsulares, Haciendas, and Latifundias
26. Racial hierarchies in Latin America
27. Latin American Dependency Theory, Monocrops, import substitution
28. Neo-colonialism
29. Juan Perón, Eva Perón, Perónism, and Argentina nationalism
30. The Mexican Revolution (intentions and realities and major characters)
31. Emiliano Zapata and Poncho Villa
32. PRI, PeMex, and the role of government in Mexico
33. Father Vargas and the Brazilian working class
34. Realities of Latin American Republic Revolutions/Movements
35. Britain and India
36. Sepoy Rebellion
37. British Pacification
38. Cantonments and the Indian Caste system during British occupation
39. Indian Resistance (three groups and two major leaders), Hindu and Muslim friction on the road to Independence

40. Ottoman Empire in the 19th early 20th century
41. Western encroachment
42. Egypt and Turkey: differences from other Islamic areas
43. pan-Islamism
44. Women, reform in the Middle East, and Huda Sha’rawi
45. “Civilizing Mission” of the West
46. Colonial “Scramble for Africa” pre WWI (up to 1880)
47. Colonial “Scramble for Africa” between 1880 and WWI (1914)
48. Boxer Rebellion
49. Open Door Policy
50. Qing dynasty overthrown in 1912 (big success for Western influences)
51. Educational, military, political reforms 1900-1911 and the Republican Revolution
52. Stages of cultural and ideological ferment- the May 4th Movement (1919)(p. 843)
53. The Long March, Mao Zedong, and the Chinese revolution
54. Japan- Cultural shift during Tokugawa reign as Japan becomes “Western”
55. Meiji Restoration
56. Ruso Japanese War
57. Global depression
58. Japanese militarism, Tojo Hideki (and the influence of German Nazism)
59. Hitler’s denouncement of Versailles, Sudetenland, Munich Pact
60. Axis Powers alliance
61. Non-aggression pact with Russia
62. Blitzkrieg
63. Battle of Britain
64. German invasion of Soviet Union and Battle of Stalingrad
65. Holocaust/Final Solution
66. Normandy Invasion/D-Day
67. Yalta Conference
68. V-E Day
69. Pearl Harbor
70. Island Hopping
71. Battle of Midway
72. Iwo Jima and Okinawa
73. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the consequences of U.S. and Japanese leaders’ decisions
74. Human costs
75. WWII technology
76. Creation of the state of Israel
77. Cold War super powers
78. Domino Theory

1122 IDs

HIST 1122
Unit 3 Identifications

1. Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism as causes of WWI
2. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3. Triple Entente (leaders, countries, formation, and strategy)
4. Triple Alliance (same as above)
5. Trench warfare
6. New technology and the world’s first industrial war
7. Schlieffen Plan
8. Stalemate in the West
9. Bolshevik Revolution
10. U.S. isolationism and entrance into the war
11. Fourteen Points
12. Treaty of Versailles
13. Economic/Human costs
14. Legacy of WWI
15. Buying on margin, speculation
16. 1920s U.S. prosperity (boom and bust)
17. Consumer culture
18. Stock market crash
19. U.S. depression creates Global Depression (debt cycles)
20. Lenin’s communism to Stalinism
21. Fascism in Italy and the rise of Benito Mussolini
22. Russia in the Great Depression
23. Nazism in Germany and the rise of Adolf Hitler
24. Women in Fascist or Nazi governments
25. The New Deal and FDR as U.S. president
26. Changing roles in government in U.S. versus Europe 1930s
27. Communism/Socialism
28. Hitler’s denouncement of Versailles, Sudetenland, Munich Pact
29. Axis Powers alliance
30. Non-aggression pact with Russia
31. Holocaust/Final solution
32. Blitzkrieg
33. Battle of Britain
34. German invasion of Soviet Union and Battle of Stalingrad
35. Normandy Invasion/D-Day
36. Yalta Conference
37. V-E Day
38. Pearl Harbor
39. Island Hopping
40. Battle of Midway
41. Iwo Jima and Okinawa
42. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the consequences of U.S. and Japanese leaders’ decisions
43. Human costs/Economic costs
44. WWII technology
45. Creation of the state of Israel
46. Cold War super powers
47. Decolonization movements in Africa, Middle East, Latin America
48. Domino Theory
49. Cuban Missile Crisis
50. Berlin Airlift/Berlin Wall/Iron Curtain
51. Korean War
52. Vietnam
53. Space race
54. Nuclear arms race
55. Legacy of colonialism
56. Good Neighbor Policy
57. General Abdel Nasser
58. Anwar Sadat
59. Yasir Arafat
60. Sharon
61. Saddam Hussein
62. Global terrorism
63. Global communication
64. Transnational, Transglobal trade/culture
65. Today’s definition of the “West”
66. Environmentalism
67. Human rights
68. European Union

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

1112- Latin America resources


Read the following links to get a better feel for characters/events involved in Latin American politics 1860-1945.

Mexico

Mexican Revolution summary
List and photos of Major Characters in Mexican Revolution
Emiliano Zapata and the Zapatistas
Pancho Villa: An American Perspective

Pancho Villa: A Mexican Perspective

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Government and Cows

This is great for discussion and for a few laughs. See what you think.

http://www.tallrite.com/LightRelief/cows&govt.htm

Possible Discussions

HIST 1112

1. How did the "Age of Reason" change relationships and understandings regarding man, humanity, government, and the universe (nature)?

2. Compare major political philosophers and their views during the Enlightenment.

3. Explain the development of views and methods regarding the mind and body of humankind during the Scientific Revolution?

4. How did the Industrial Revolution affect class, production, consumption (family economy and national economy), and political theory?

5. Analyze the proletariat class and changes in the way people lived and worked during the Industrial Revolution.

6. Describe the emergence of the modern nation state. How did it come to be and what factors determined its definition?

7. How do the revolutions in America, France, and Haiti compare? Include causes, nature, and consequences.

8. Compare and contrast concepts of Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Imperialism, and Neo-Colonialism. Be able to give at least one example of each.

9. Explain the course of French History from 1789-1871. To what extent did it achieve the goals set forth by revolutionaries in 1789?

10. How did Germany and Italy become modern nation states?


HIST 1122

1. Describe the emergence of the modern nation state. How did it come to be and what factors determined its definition?

2. Compare and contrast concepts of Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Imperialism, and Neo-Colonialism. Be able to give at least one example of each.

3. Analyze how the Industrial Revolution affected labor (both skilled and unskilled), labor organization, and social class structure.

4. Explain the course of French History from 1789-1871. To what extent did it achieve the goals set forth by revolutionaries in 1789?

5. How did Germany and Italy become modern nation states?

6. How did Imperialism and Nationalism lead to WWI?

7. How did "inferior" categories of race and religion fit into ideas formed by the British Empire?

8. Explain both the complex expectations and limititations of women in the 19th century.

9. (a) Define the concepts of and relationships between Nationalism, Imperialism, and Industrialism. (b) How did these theoretical concepts solidify the modernization and domination of the "West" in the 19th century?




HIST 2111


1. Compare and contrast Jeffersonian America and Jacksonian America. (Include ideological characteristics, federal v. state power, changes in the shape and direction of the nation, and the realities of life for Americans and Native Americans.)

2. What were the causes and the stakes of the War of 1812?

3. How did the Supreme Court from 1800-1830 help shape the direction of American domestic policy and political powers?

4. How did the Industrial Revolution change consumption, production, and social class in America 1790-1850?

5. What was Manifest Destiny and what events/movements/conflicts were involved?

6. Explain the plight of Native Americans from 1800-1840.

7. Describe reform and religious movements and developments from 1820-1850. In what ways were issues involved in reform and religion related? Also describe splinters movements and leaders involved.

8. Analyze urban life and urbanization. What was the relationship between urbanization and the Industrial Revolution? What changes were made during this period?

9. Explain the issue of Texas and its statehood in the 1830s-1850.

10. Compare Jacksonian Democrats with the newly formed (but not necessarily new ideas) Whig Party.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Romanticism

Outline:

I. Definition:

A. Essentially, emotion over reason
B. Reaction against classicism, and especially neo-classicism
C. Took different forms in different countries

II. Certain themes which recurred:

A. Emotion, sometimes beyond reason, spontaneity
B. Man against society, against the gods/God
C. Authenticity, against forms and conformity
D. Love of nature and of the countryside
E. Celebration of the imaginatin

III. Revolutionary period:

A. Nationalism
B. The Hero

IV. Longing for things far away, the exotic, the distant past (keen on the mediaeval period)

V. Love of Landscape and nature

VI. Despair

VII. Folk tales and traditions, linked to national past

Points to remember:

1. No real definition of Romanticism - more a state of mind and emotions
2. Defined itself against neo-classicism
3. Found in all of the arts, including architecture (think Neo-Gothic in Great Britain)
4. Personal elements: non-conformity, unbridled emotins, love of nature, heroic stance against society and fate

HIST 1122- THE "ISMS"- Imperialism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Orientalism






For more on Orientalist representations go to:
http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/arthistory/ah369/westernrepresent.htm

or

http://www.orientalist-art.org.uk/

Consider these questions after reading the Victorian Web source and analyzing the political cartoon:

1. How is the Chinaman portrayed? What is the relationship between the European and Chinaman? Analyze how this reflects the power (master/slave paradigm) of imperialism?

2. How did Britain incorporate India into the British Empire?

3. What was the rebellion about in 1857-8? How were factors of religion, customs, power involved?

4. How did the British affect the Caste System in ways that maintained Indian pre-colonial culture. How was pre-colonial culture lost regarding the Caste?

5. How were the Irish affected by the characteristics ofr "imperium" or empire? Why is their case different?