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Post WWII: Imagining New Countries
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Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
sympathetic, Sukarno, defeated, countercyclical, dollar, Dutch, labor, Turkey, Nehru, free, UNRRA, Italy, recipes, appealing, Palestine, big, Democrats, discredited, scorns, action, displaced, Holy, Chrysler, poor, Islam, Zedong, depression, Arab, imperialist, create, journey, Franco, Bretton
the state of the world in 1945
countries that have been completely
Germany
ideologies that have been completely
Nazism
Fascism
millions of people
from their homes
Jews of Europe migrating to , a territory under control of a British government mandate
dreams that have been deferred for a long time
1945 elected a government
was seen as time to build a new country that had been neglected them through years of and war
lonely pilgrims
they are lonely because they don't have large institutions or large political parties, just a handful of people in several clusters trying to imagine a new country
Burma
they are trying to think of the new country they are going to build
China
Nationalist government has been badly bludgeoned by the war with the Japanese
Mao
his Chinese communists have been fighting the Japanese
India
and Gandhi
simple clothes
trained in the elite British school system
able to function capably in both worlds, East and West
Indonesia
formerly East Indies
independence movement led by
problems of nation building
what are the borders?
Batavia (Jakarta) is capital
a very large are of geography
very different places and ethnic identities
strong on island of Java
should it include Borneo?
what are their ladders of success?
they are living in environments designed by the colonial powers they are trying to overthrow
they are climbing a ladder that ends up leading to Paris or London, but actually they are trying to reach a level in a different kind of community that they are trying to
what models are these leaders looking to?
democracies
is it ?
is it too hard?
communisms
seem to be able to take a large mass of people and make them pretty strong and independent pretty quickly
communism has a strong anti- rhetoric
anti-communists who think democracy is unappealing or too hard
many Muslims
deeply religious but the doctrine of communism religion
but not interested in democracy because of their religion
difficult to look toward , because it had ostentatiously pointed itself toward secularism, limiting the role of Islam
a pan- ideology was popular
ideologies
identity and narrative
we are on a going from here to here to here
vocabularies
words and phrases that other people will understand and recognize
policy programs
to build your country
1930s
Social rise
1945
Fascism is profoundly discredited
and Germany both in ruins
Japan was flirting with a kind of Fascism ideology, also in ruins
Fascism now doesn't seem to extend beyond 's Spain
Communism strong
Social Democracy strong
new countries taking these family of ideas to create their own
social democracy
macroeconomics
the notion that we can influence supply and demand with governmental
a strong role in government management of the economy
John Maynard Keynes
social insurance
provide people with more personal security in their lives
government in partnership with labor
big government supports big corporations and big unions
Walther Reuther, president of United Auto Workers
powerful union offsetting the big three auto manufacturers: Ford, , General Motors
rebuild global economy
distinctive vision between United States with England
money 1.0 = old gold standard
money 2.0 = gold- standard
instead of relying on a finite amount of metal, you rely on a finite amount of metal linked to paper called dollars
dollars became a hard currency on which people could set exchange rates
Woods Conference, 1944
730 delegates from 44 Allied nations
Harry Dexter White
American treasury official
accused of being and being an active agent for the Soviet Union
sympathetic to the big government, managed economy approach of the Soviet Union
Keynes
the Bretton Woods system is about very managed economies with governments
United States supported trade
but carefully regulated the movement of money across borders
not like the monetary system we have today
World Bank and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( )
for governments to have a bank to help other countries
saved hundreds of thousands of lives distributing assistance to people in need
Vocabulary:
ambivalent, adj. simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations ⇒ "The image of Sukarno on the cover of Time Magazine is ambivalent, do you sympathize with this man, or are you afraid of him?" |
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######################### (1893-1976) Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
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Spelling Corrections:
defered ⇒ deferred
blugeoned ⇒ bludgeoned
assistence ⇒ assistance