2A: Modernity Flashcards

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Europe 1939-45

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WW2
Infrastructure destroyed
Exploited vulnerability

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2
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Post WW2

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Decolonisation 
UN - over 133 countries 
Truman 1949 
Cold War
Marshall Plan $13 bil 
Global S development
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3
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Bretton Woods Conference 1944

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IMF and WB
US primacy of $
Economic liberalisation and free trade

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4
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What is modern?

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technology 
westernisation 
multi-sectors
centralised state
MoP and Fordism 
Mass consumption 
Gender divisions
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5
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Rostow (1960)

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  1. Traditional Society
  2. Preconditions for take-off
  3. Take off
  4. Drive to maturity
  5. Age of mass consumption
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