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Conflicts in Postwar Nation Building
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 8, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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conflicts in postwar nation building
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Germany
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divided up into military zones of                     
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no separate East and West Germany yet, just different zones occupied by different armies
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Soviet Union
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moved west annexing West                (former East Poland), West Belorussia (former East Poland), Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, liquidating the              Republics which had been created after World War I
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             was moved west
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Germans in new Poland are uprooted and flee westward
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Soviet              playing a key role in all of these places
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Asia
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capital of Nationalist China had been at               
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but had to move their capital during the war to the              of China
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Japanese move out of large areas of Eastern China as prisoners, leaving a          for the Chinese to fill
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Africa
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many colonies remained
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French Algeria
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French West Africa
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French Equatorial Africa
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Belgian Congo
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                     Angola
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South America
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countries mainly stayed out of         
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Southeast Asia
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a very                postwar area of the world
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is in turmoil as civil war is reigniting in China
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Japanese had
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pushed the              out of Indochina
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pushed the                out of Burma and out of the Malay States and the capital, Singapore
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pushed the            out of the East Indies and occupied the Philippines
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when Japanese leave as prisoners, a vacuum is created
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Indochina
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the French are trying to reclaim their position in French                    (Vietnam)
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Americans are                     
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French soon locked into warfare against a Viet          resistance ("League for the Independence of Vietnam") which is increasingly receiving                    support
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Burma
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British trying to reclaim their position there
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Malay States
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revolts
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Philippines
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1946 Americans grant independence to the                       , but this republic faces resistance in the                      Rebellion (The Huks) which started in 1942 against the Japanese, is intrigued by the Communist example, but was ended in         
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India
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British were deeply                about what to do about India
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the war had                        all of that
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Britain promised India that if they fought on their side in the war, Britain would give them self-government when the war was over
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the question was: what should an              state look like?
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how to reconcile between princely rulers and democratic rulers
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in 1947 the British threw up their hands and quit
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               partition of the country
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heavy Muslim areas of India created themselves as a new state called                 
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exchanges in populations
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millions of lives lost
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                           on both sides of the lines
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princely state of                    (center of India) retained some autonomy but annexed by India in 1948
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disagreements on border with China and what should happen to           
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The Near East
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                   post-war period
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British
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direct mandatory rule in Palestine and Trans-            
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British alliance and protectorate with local rulers in Iraq and Egypt
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British military occupation in former Italian colonies of Libya,               , and Somalia
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1945-1946 focal point:         
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war of nerves
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Russians had occupied the                  part of the country
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British and Americans had occupied the                  part of the country
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during the war, the Allies were                that a government allied with the Nazis would take control in Iran and cut off their supply to its       
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when the war was over, the military forces of all side had promised to leave
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Americans and British were moving out but British retained extremely valuable concession to get oil out of Southern Iran
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the Russians were slow to           , creating spheres of influence and groups of allied supporters
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1946: Russians finally agreed to leave but this skirmish contributed to the rising tensions of East and West which led to the          War
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origins of the Cold War
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actually an older struggle that was going on before WWII
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but useful to boil it down to                  of people trying to solve real and concrete problems such as "what are we going to do in Iran?"
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no one worked harder to solve problems like these than George                 
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had the most prestige
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given the most difficult tasks
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China
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met with Zhang        (Nationalists) and Zhou Enlai (Communists)
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Americans had a sympathy with the Chinese Nationalists
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trying to help the Nationalists relocate and fill              left by departing Japanese occupiers
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               were divided in helping their Communist friends since the Soviet Union wanted to get a hold in Manchuria as well
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Marshall wanted to see if the two sides would share power somehow, but concludes that it won't work, blames both sides for seeing it as a         -sum game
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comes away with a                  image of the Nationalists
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both Soviets and Americans thought that                          would control the game
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Germany
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moving towards the edge of                     
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British and French are themselves broke and having trouble feeding their own people
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but who is going to benefit from chaos? the                     
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Marshall in             
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talked with Bevin, British Foreign Minister
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British have concluded Marshall's plan to get an agreed effort between the Soviets and the Western powers is a                  adventure
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Marshall talks to Vyacheslav               , foreign minister
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Moscow negotiations fail
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Marshall had plan on table to disarm Germany for 25 years with multi-national police forces
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America would pay reparations to the Soviets
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Allies don't think Marshall's ideas of cooperation will work and the Soviets are                         
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Marshall leaves Moscow in failure
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             is content with folding his arms, watch Germany collapse into starving chaos and reap the benefits from that disorder
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Marshall feels he has to do something else
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1947: Marshall gives an address to the American people: the patient is dying while the doctors are deliberating, and he needs to find a way for American to grab the strategic initiative in a world that seems to be                             

People:

######################### (1898-1976)
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First Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976
  • served under Mao Zedong
  • consolidated the control of the Communist Party
  • formed foreign policy
  • developed the Chinese economy
  • met with George Marshall as the Communist representative in 1946
######################### (1890-1986)
A Soviet politician, diplomat, and Old Bolshevik, leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s into the 1950s
  • rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin
  • dismissed from the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev
  • was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939

Spelling Corrections:

Portugese ⇒ Portuguese

Flashcards:

which country owned Angola as a colony?
Portugal
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