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KEY EVENTS IN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
KEY EVENTS IN INTERNATIONAL
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
KEY EVENTS
The Beginning18th & 19th Centuries20th & 21st Centuries
THE BEGINNING
Why is this building, theFriedensaal, significantto international relations?
TREATY OF WESTPHALIA
Signed in 1648- ended the 30 Years War
TREATY OF WESTPHALIA-1648
3 things came out of the Treaty:Sovereignty States System
18TH & 19TH CENTURIES
3 Key Changes Impacted System Development1) Culmination of Multipolar System2) Demand for Popular Sovereignty3) Westernization of International
System
Power Pole
Growing
Power
Power
PolePow
erPole
Power
Pole
1 Power Pole =
Unipolar System 2 Power Poles
= Bipolar System
4+ Power Poles =
Multipolar System
Power
PoleGrowingPower
1- CULMINATION OF MULTIPOLAR SYSTEM
18TH & 19TH CENTURIES
3 Key Changes Impacted System Development1) Culmination of Multipolar System2) Demand for Popular Sovereignty3) Westernization of International
System
2- EVOLUTION OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
Raison d’état (‘Requirements of the State)
Challenges to raison d’état Push for ‘popular’ sovereignty
18TH & 19TH CENTURIES
3 Key Changes Impacted System Development1) Culmination of Multipolar System2) Demand for Popular Sovereignty3) Westernization of International
System
3- WESTERNIZATION OF INT’L SYSTEM
Scientific & Technological AdvancesGuns & GunpowderNaval TechnologyIndustrial Revolution
Colonization & ImperialismWhat are these?Where?
THE AMERICAS
BritainFranceGermanyItalyPortugalBelgiumSpain
AFRICA
ASIA
BritainNetherlandsFranceU.S.JapanRussia
THE SUN NEVER SETS
20TH & 21ST CENTURIES
World War I -1914-1919Bolshevik Revolution The Great Depression
World War II -1939-1945Post WWII
Cold War Era -1945-1991Post CW Era -1991 to present
WORLD WAR I
Treaty of Versailles War Reparations
Empires end Ottoman EmpireAustro-Hungarian Empire
OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM 1807-1924
• All of Austria, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia,
• Large parts of Serbia, Romania • Bits of Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE 1867–1918
• All of Austria, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia,
• Parts of Romania, Poland, Germany, Italy, Ukraine
POST WORLD WAR I Rise of Communist Russia Rise of German nationalism
Either Death to Capitalism or Death by Capitalism
POST WORLD WAR I The Great Depression Munich Conference
Sudentenland & Appeasement Policy
Neville Chamberlain ‘appeasing’ Hitler, 1938
WORLD WAR IIEuropean Theater of OperationsPacific Theater of Operations
POST WORLD WAR II
Emergence of a Bipolar System Formation of the United Nations Decolonization
Self-determination
WAR OF IDEOLOGIES: DEMOCRACY V. COMMUNISMSecuring Interests in Europe
United StatesMarshall Plan, Truman PlanNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Soviet UnionEastern European takeover= Eastern Bloc
Warsaw Treaty Pact
COLD WAR FOREIGN POLICY
Cuban Missile Crisis -1962US Containment DoctrineNixon goes to China -1972 SU invades Afghanistan -1979Brief era of détente
COLD WAR ERA-THE REAGAN YEARSNew Soviet Premier- 1985
Perestroika (economic restructuring)Glasnost (openness)
Berlin Wall is torn down -1989Eastern Bloc countries follow
Fall of the Soviet Union -1991End of bipolar system
POST-COLD WAR ERA
Multipolar SystemGlobal North v. Global SouthEuropean Union
Expansion of EU in P-CW eraAdoption of euro -1999
China joins World Trade Organization (WTO)
ECONOMIC GLOBAL DIVISION
Global North (light red)Global South•Emerging Economies (dark red)•Developing (white)
POST-COLD WAR ERA9/11War in Afghanistan -2001 Iraq -2003Global Economic RecessionArab Spring -2011
