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GO131: International Relations Professor Walter Hatch Colby College World War II

GO131: International Relations Professor Walter Hatch Colby College World War II. The Promise of Collective Security.

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GO131: International Relations Professor Walter Hatch Colby College World War II

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  1. GO131: International Relations Professor Walter Hatch Colby College World War II

  2. The Promise of Collective Security A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. Woodrow Wilson The Fourteen Points, 8 January, 1918

  3. The Failure of Collective Security

  4. World War Two: Basic Facts • Up to 50 million killed • Two wars • Europe • The Pacific • “Total War” (industry, military, media) • State-sponsored terrorism • Led to new, American-dominated order

  5. Treaty of Versailles (1919) Lloyd George, Orlando, Clemenceau, Wilson

  6. Germany’s War Bill • $33 billion in reparations • Lost its overseas colonies • Lost territory to Poland • Lost its air force • Lost all but 100,000 of its army troops

  7. The New Shape of Europe

  8. The View from Germany

  9. The View from Germany

  10. Background • Wilson’s liberal vision • Replace “balance of power” politics with “Collective Security” • Basic Principles re: aggression • Outlaw it • Deter it by forming a coalition of non-aggressive states • Punish it collectively

  11. The League of Nations • Was not a “world government” • Relied on voluntary compliance with “international law” • Operated without the participation of its creator

  12. League Successes • Brokered agreement between Greece and Bulgaria, avoiding war • Supervised peace and disarmament negotiations • 1921 Washington Treaty Conference • 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact

  13. League Failures • France continues to balance against Germany • Alliances with reconfigured states of Poland and Romania • Alliances with new states of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia • Germany claims a “soft” border on its east • Japan insists on its claim in Manchuria • Italy invades Ethiopia

  14. The 1930s • Global Depression • Rise of militarism in Japan • Rise of fascism in Europe • Mussolini already in power in 1922 • Hitler followed in 1933

  15. Building to War in Europe • 1920s: hyperinflation under Weimar Republic • 1930s: economic crisis deepens • 1933: Adolph Hitler and his National Socialist Party win election

  16. Ultra-nationalism

  17. Sequence of Events • October 1933: Germany leaves League of Nations • March 1935: Hitler renounces Treaty of Versailles, announces military build-up • March 1938: Germany invades Austria • September 1938: Hitler and Chamberlain agree to partition of Czechoslovakia • March 1939: Germany rolls across the rest of Czechoslovakia

  18. “The Campaign of Lies” “The democracies have called on their most loyal troops to encircle Germany.” (Simplicissimus, 9 April 1939)

  19. Sequence of Events (cont.) • August 1939: Hitler signs non-aggression pact with Stalin • September 1939: Germany invades Poland • April 1940: Germany invades Norway • May 1940: Hitlers launches blitzkrieg into Holland, Belgium, France. • July 1940: German bombers turned away by RAF aviators in “Battle of Britain” • September 1940: Germany, Italy and Japan ally as “Axis Powers” • June 1941: Germany invades its “ally,” the Soviet Union

  20. 1942: A World Divided

  21. Building to War in the Pacific • 1920s: Chafing under new rules of international system • 1930s: Economic crisis deepens • 1932: “Government by assassination” (and by the military) begins in Tokyo

  22. Ultra-nationalism

  23. Sequence of Events • 1931: Japan establishes puppet state of “Manchukuo” in northeast China • 1933: Japan leaves League of Nations in protest over Lytton Committee report • 1937: Japan declares all-out war on China • 1940: U.S. imposes embargo on oil and steel exports to Japan • 1940: Japan seized French colonies in Indochina • 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, bringing U.S. into war • 1942: Japan grabs Singapore, Malaysian Peninsula, Philippines, Indonesia

  24. “The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”

  25. 1944: The Beginning of the End

  26. 1945: The End

  27. WHY?

  28. Realism • Collective Security doesn’t work • Power vacuum • U.S. remained isolationist • Soviet Union was isolationist • U.K. used appeasement

  29. Liberalism • Fascism, militarism and land • Class divisions in Europe • French conservatives: “Better Hitler than Blum” • British Tories and negotiations with Soviet Union • Economic collapse

  30. Constructivism • Perverse Nationalism • Constructing “The Other” as subhuman • And then killing it

  31. “Let the punishment fit the crime”

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