Final Flashcards
Ndansi Kumalo
Resisting Imperialism
What is Resisting Imperialism about?
Story of white men invading Africa. 2 wars broke out. Whites abused, molested, and enslaved Africans. However, Africans got better education, technology.
Jules Ferry
Defending Conquest
What is Defending Conquest about?
French politician advocating imperialism into Africa and Asia for political, economic, and moral reasons
Ernest Edwin Williams
Made in Germany
What is Made in Germany about?
Germany was an emerging superpower; Britain was on the decline. Williams gave stats of the omnipresence of German products
Richard Kipling
The White Man’s Burden
What is the White Man’s Burden about?
Response to American takeover of Philippines. Halfway between critic and advocate.
Emile Zola
J’accuse
What is J’accuse about?
Says there was a cover-up in the Dreyfus affair. Birth of modern human rights.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Speech from the Dock
What was Speech from the Dock about?
Speech given to defend women’s advocates’ tactics. War against a patriarchal society.
Sigmund Freud
Trapping the Human Psyche
What was Trapping the Human Psyche about?
Interpretation of dreams. Stands against imperialism, conquest, and points to fallacy of self-control and self-understanding.
Eugenism
The Idealized Family
What is the Idealized Family about?
People with bad genetics should be sterilized or controlled - need to improve racial quality of the population
Margaret Bondfield
The Advance of Unionism
What is the Advance of Unionism about?
European working class still susceptible to exploitation and fluctuation in the marketplace. Workers should form unions to fight for better conditions.
Heinrich von Treitschke
Place of Warfare in the State
What is Place of Warfare in the State about?
Nationalism (violence and aggression) is deeply ingrained in intellectuals. Nations have to carry out war to be nations.
Henri Massis, Alred de Tarde
The Young People
What is the Young People about?
Male students in Paris that shows the differences between them and previous students in their exaltation of war. “A cause that transcends themselves”
Fritz Franke, Siegfried Sassoon
Two Soldier’s Views
What is Two Soldier’s Views about?
Franke, a med student, describes trenches as hell of immobility and stalemate. Sassoon, a British officer, survives and writes poems about misery and futility.
L Doriat
Women on the Home Front
What is Women on the Home Front about?
Women took over men’s jobs, resulting in women vote in GB and US, but not France
V.I. Lenin
The State and Revolution
What is The State and Revolution about?
Blueprint for one-party proletarian state. State was indispensable for realizing the promise of a proletarian revolution.
Benito Mussolini
The Doctrine of Fascism
What is the Doctrine of Fascism about?
Bitter about defeat and Italy’s economy. Fascism was for the state, not the individual. Also against classical Liberalism.
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kempf
What is Mein Kempf about?
Attributed all human achievements to German race and placed responsibility for the world’s worst problems on Jews
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet
What is Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet about?
Appeals to German worker and veteran. Nationalism and socialism. Destroy people who stand against German nation.
Neville Chamberlain
Speech on the Munich Crisis
What is Speech on the Munich Crisis about?
Defended appeasement towards Hitler as the key to peace.
Joseph Stalin
Formation of the Communist Information Bureau
What is the Formation of the Communist Information Bureau about?
Stalin deeply mistrusted Western allies. Established a buffer of satellite states and created Cominform - a centralized association of communist parties
Harry Truman
National Security Council Paper
What is the National Security Council Paper about?
Worried about communist block and Zedong’s communist victory in China. Wanted to develop healthy international community and contain USSR
What is Student Voices of Protest about?
1968 saw Vietnam War, MLK and JFK assassinations. Students realized that had a voice.
