Primary Sources Sessions 1-8 Flashcards
1
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“The White Man’s Burden”
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- 1899
- Rudyard Kipling
- American colonization of the Philippines
- “moral duty” or obligation to rule over & encourage cultural development
2
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“Speech to the North German Regatta Association”
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- 1901
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
- “conquered for ourselves a place in the sun”
- wants more land for Germany as other countries have
- planned to develop both industry & agric.
3
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“The Benefits of British Rule”
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- 1871
- Dadabhai Naoroji
benefits & detriments - increase in exports, education, loans for transportation
- breach of pledges to give the natives a fair & reasonable share
- morally a blessing, “knife of sugar,” misfortune - you do not know our wants
4
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“On French Colonial Expansion”
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- March 28, 1884
- Jules Ferry
- Speech before the French Chamber of Deputies
- “it is a right for the superior races, because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races.”
- economic exploitation
- March 28, 1884
- “it is a right for the superior races, because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races.”
- economic exploitation
5
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Canadian Expeditionary Force: Selections from My Daily Journal
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- 1915-1916
- Private Donald Fraser
- captured the life of a solider in WWI, represents the common’s soldiers perspective - social tension (British aristocratic traditions)
6
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The Fourteen Points
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- 1918
- Woodrow Wilson
- declared that WWI was being fought for a moral cause
- asking for postwar peace in Europe
- Established the “Wilsonian” idealist thinking
- welcomed, but main Allied powers were skeptical ( France, Italy, & GB)
7
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Briand- Kellogg Pact
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- 1928
- sponsored by France & the US
- strong influence on international law
- international agreement to not use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts”
- fail to abide, forfeit the benefits of the treaty
8
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On National Socialism & World Relations
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- 1937
- Adolf Hitler
- Challenged Versailles
- Describes communism as a “parasite” “illness” - dehumanize the enemy
- legitimizes his actions through comparison to Spain
- superiority of German people - need to protect
9
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The Quarantine Speech
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- 1937
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- calls for “quarantine of the aggressor nations”
- can no longer be neutral - “no escape through mere isolation”
- put on economic pressure
- peace, “America hates war”
10
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The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
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- Aug 1939
- treaty of non-aggression btwn Germany and the Soviet Union
- neither would ally/aid an enemy of the other
- Broken by Germany invading SU in 1941
11
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The Atlantic Charter
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- Aug 1941
- defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
- Drafted by US & Britain
- no unfavorable territorial changes, reduction of trade restrictions, secure better social/economic conditions, freedom of the seas
- disarmament of aggressor nations
12
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Yalta conference
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- Feb 1945
- texts of the agreements
- US, UK, and SU to discuss Europe’s post-war reorganization
- agreed upon the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, undergo demilitarization, denazification
- French zone of occupation
13
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“Hiroshima”
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- 1946
- John Hershey
- The New Yorker
- focuses on six witness accounts on the nuclear explosion, few had yet understood the true destruction of the bomb
14
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The Long Telegram
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- Feb 1946
- George Kennan
- reply to the US Tresury Dept
- dealing with Soviet Communism - “undoubtedly greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced”
- foundation of American Cold War policy
- SU didn’t see the possibility for long-term peaceful co-existence w/ the capital world
- perpetual war with capitalism - not representative of Russian people
15
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The Novikov Telegram
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- Sept. 1946
- a reaction to Kennan’s Long Telegram
- sent to Moscow by Soviet Ambassador in Wash
