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Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on December 16, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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liberators, tentions, Kurds, radicalism, Ottoman, chemical, language, Arabs, upheaval, settlements, Sunni, mandate, Congo, villagers, Christian, Balfour, Jewish, occupying, Japanese, confidence, Batavia, Dutch
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what to do the former provinces of the former                Empire which included Palestine
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one solution was to create states
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in Palestine
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to create a home for the Jews
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for a return to the Holy Law
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the                Declaration
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promised to create a home for the              people
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local incumbent populations of            were upset
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both                    and Moslem Arabs
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they were not being consulted in this process
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how to divide it up
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by the 1930 led to an uprising by Palestinian Arabs against the British
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a dual war against the British and the Jewish                       
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1936-1939 The Great Arab Revolt
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Jews formed self-defense armies
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                   would be conducted, also women
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also Jewish villagers and settlers
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a harbinger of                  to come
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the British military had become an                    army
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this was not the original function
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was loathed by many
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in Iraq
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also a                of the British
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           and Shiites fought for their model of self-determination
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first use of                  bombs issued from aircraft
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1932 the British forces pulled out of Iraq
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left the state in the hands of a            royal family
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Britain had to try to contain the spread of                      and nationalism in distant places
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the            in Indonesia
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had created their colony in                in 1602
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the First World War shattered the                      in Dutch power
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calls for self-determination began to resonate
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were forced to become increasingly oppressive
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they were finally driven out not by Indonesian insurgents but by                  troops
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the Japanese originally greeted as                     
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after World War I, in many places in the world, former colonies adopted the                  of self-determination
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from Vietnam to the           
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while in Europe a peace had been declared, much of the rest of the world was in                 
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Portuguese Indian Ocean Empire
16th Century Colonialism Fueling European Violence
Global Food: European Sugar, Caribbean Plantations, African Slaves
16th and 17th Century Merchant Trading Companies
17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
The Apex and Erosion of the Mughal Empire
The Treaty of Westphalia as the Hinge of Modern History
The Influence of Silver on the Ming Dynasty
Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
18th China Resurgent as Qing Dynasty
18th Century Tea Trade, Leisure Time, and the Spread of Knowledge
Cook and Clive: Discoverers, Collectors and Conquerors of the Enlightenment
Strains on the Universality of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, Empire, and Colonization: Burke vs. Hastings
Enlightenment or Empire
18th Century Land Grabbing
The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
The Seven Years' War and Colonial Revolutions
Napoleon, Spain, the Colonies, and Imperial Crises
Human Rights and the Meaning of Membership within Societies
Napoleon, New Nations, and Total War
The Ottoman Empire's 19th Century Tanzimat Reform
The Early 19th Century Market Revolution
The Global Upheavals of the Mid-19th Century
The Train, the Rifle, and the Industrial Revolution
Transition in India: Last of the Mughals
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Its Ramifications
Darwin's Effect on 19th Century Ideas
Factors Which Led to the Solidifying of Nation States
1868 Japan: The Meiji Restoration
1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
North American Nation-Building
19th Century Changing Concepts of Labor
The Benefits of Comparative Advantage
Migration after the Age of Revolutions
Creating 19th Century Global Free Trade
The Expanding 19th Century Capitalist System
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Closing of the American Frontier
Africa's Second Imperial Wave
Early 20th Century American Imperialism
1894-1905: Japan's Imperial Wave in Asia
Rashid Rida and 19th Century Islamic Modernization
19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
19th Century Global Export-Led Growth
Indian Wars and Mass Slaughter of Bison
The Suez Canal's Effect on the Malayan Tiger
1890-1914: Savage Wars of Peace
1900-1909: Russian and Turkish Dynasties
1899-1911 The End of the Qing Dynasty
The 1910 Mexican Revolution
The Panic of 1907
Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents
20th Century Questioning of Reason
Late 19th Century Anxieties of Race
The First World War
The End of WWI and the Attempt at Global Peace
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The Wilson-Lenin Moment
1919 Self-Determination Movements in India
Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
Changes in Capitalism between the Wars
1918-1945 Rethinking Economies