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Post WWII: Imagining New Countries
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 1, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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the state of the world in 1945
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countries that have been completely                 
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Germany
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ideologies that have been completely                       
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Nazism
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Fascism
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millions of people                   
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from their homes
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Jews of Europe migrating to                   , a territory under control of a British government mandate
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dreams that have been deferred for a long time
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1945 elected a            government
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was seen as time to build a new country that had been neglected them through years of                      and war
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lonely pilgrims
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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
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Burma
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they are trying to think of the new country they are going to build
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China
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Nationalist government has been badly bludgeoned by the war with the Japanese
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Mao             
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his Chinese communists have been fighting the Japanese
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India
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           and Gandhi
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simple clothes
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trained in the elite British school system
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able to function capably in both worlds, East and West
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Indonesia
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formerly            East Indies
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independence movement led by               
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problems of nation building
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what are the borders?
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Batavia (Jakarta) is capital
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a very large are of geography
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very different places and ethnic identities
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           strong on island of Java
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should it include Borneo?
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what are their ladders of success?
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they are living in environments designed by the colonial powers they are trying to overthrow
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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             
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what models are these leaders looking to?
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democracies
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is it                   ?
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is it too hard?
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communisms
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seem to be able to take a large mass of          people and make them pretty strong and independent pretty quickly
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communism has a strong anti-                       rhetoric
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anti-communists who think democracy is unappealing or too hard
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many Muslims
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deeply religious but the doctrine of communism              religion
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but not interested in democracy because of their religion
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difficult to look toward             , because it had ostentatiously pointed itself toward secularism, limiting the role of Islam
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a pan-         ideology was popular
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ideologies
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identity and narrative
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we are on a                going from here to here to here
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vocabularies
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words and phrases that other people will understand and recognize
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policy programs
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               to build your country
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1930s
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Social                    rise
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1945
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Fascism is profoundly discredited
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           and Germany both in ruins
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Japan was flirting with a kind of          Fascism ideology, also in ruins
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Fascism now doesn't seem to extend beyond             's Spain
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Communism strong
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Social Democracy strong
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new countries taking these family of ideas to create their own
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social democracy
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                               macroeconomics
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the notion that we can influence supply and demand with governmental             
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a strong role in government management of the economy
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John Maynard Keynes
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social insurance
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provide people with more personal security in their lives
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government in partnership with labor
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big government supports big corporations and big unions
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Walther Reuther, president of United Auto Workers
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powerful union offsetting the big three auto manufacturers: Ford,                 , General Motors
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rebuild global economy
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distinctive vision between United States with England
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money 1.0 = old gold standard
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money 2.0 = gold-             standard
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instead of relying on a finite amount of metal, you rely on a finite amount of metal linked to paper called dollars
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dollars became a hard currency on which people could set exchange rates
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               Woods Conference, 1944
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730 delegates from 44 Allied nations
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Harry Dexter White
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American treasury official
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accused of being                        and being an active agent for the Soviet Union
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sympathetic to the big government, managed economy approach of the Soviet Union
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Keynes
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the Bretton Woods system is about very managed economies with        governments
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United States supported          trade
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but carefully regulated the movement of money across borders
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not like the monetary system we have today
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World Bank and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (          )
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for governments to have a bank to help other countries
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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?"

People:

######################### (1883-1946)
British economist whose ideas have fundamentally informed the economic policies of governments
  • overturned older ideas that held that free markets would, in the short to medium term, automatically provide full employment, as long as workers were flexible in their wage demands
######################### (1901-1967)
The leader of Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Netherlands
  • spent over a decade under Dutch detention until released by the invading Japanese forces
  • in office from 1945 to 1967
######################### (1893-1976)
Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
  • his Marxist-Leninist theories, military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism
######################### (1889-1964)
First Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century
  • in office from 1947-1964
  • considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic

Spelling Corrections:

defered ⇒ deferred
blugeoned ⇒ bludgeoned
assistence ⇒ assistance
1914: Schizophrenic Germany
1914: The Balkan Whirlpool
1914: From Balkan Crisis to War
1914-1916: All War Plans Fail Horribly
The 1916 Missed Opportunity for Peace
WWI Pushes Warring Countries Toward Total States
Why the Allies Won World War One
Post-WWI: Filling the Void of Collapsed Empires
Post-WWI Communism vs. Anti-Communism
Post World War I: The Age of Uncertainty
1910s/1920s: Modern Women
The World of 1930
The 1930s World Crisis
1930s: The Decade of Contingency
America's Entry into World War II
WWII: Strategies for Total War
1945: Hour Zero
Post WWII: Imagining New Countries
Conflicts in Postwar Nation Building
The Two Europes That Emerged After WWII
1947 China: Undesirable Communists vs. Flawed Nationalists
Post WWII: The Age of America
Reasons for the Korean War
How WWIII was Avoided in the Korean War
1950-1952: The Cold War Comes to Main Street
1950-1954: The H-Bomb and the Nuclear Revolution
1950s: Loosening Empires and Building Confederations
The Emergence of the Third World
1958-1962: The World at the Brink
Third World Proxy Wars of the 1950s and 1960s
Managerial States and the Transnational Disruption of 1968
1970s Obstacles to Reducing Cold War Tensions
1970s Democratic Socialism Becomes a Non-Choice
1980s Political Polarization
1980s: Global Capitalism Transformed