SS 102 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE Modernization Chapters 16 21 All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque Worldly Philosophers Chapt 9 In Reader Roosevelt On the Democratic Welfare State o o o o ence o o speech after Great Depression describing the greatness of the US and democracy and how the country has proven they are strong willed by getting through it there job is not done though because other people and countries are suffering peace justice for whole world Paxton The Anatomy of Fascism how fascism formed and why examples sense of crisis to be part of a group duties within a group belief that group is victim dread of groups decline failure pure community need for authority superiority of the leaders in stinct over reason beauty of violence when benefits the group the right of the chosen ppl to dominate fascism more in the heat of the moment than rationally thought out Mussolini The Doctrine of Fascism arose from necessity of action Fascism is like a civic religion state supreme power corporatism a command economy where capitalists retain their control new way of life for Italy education to combat and acceptance of the risks involved the majority like in democracy can t direct society Mackey Think About What You Saw The Holocaust and Social Sci Was Holocaust result of modernization YES western science scien tific racism modern technology and medical science helped kill millions na tionalism mass media and propaganda spread ideas redefined Jews bureaucracy helped organize orders and killing NO German view was romantic idealized modern capitalist society gesellschaft and Aryan race gemeinschaft rejected modern liberal politics reps debate ind rights degenerate art banned How could so many people contribute System justification theory the current system the right one Just world hypothesis comforting to think things are just fair therapeutic imp killing gets rid of parasitic Jews heals the na tion psychological doubling doctors 2 dif ppl at work and home definition of the situation and role theory we change our role in different situations obedience to authority and conformity Fanon Concerning Violence o Decolonization is unnatural because it evokes violence and violence is the only way for it to happen colonies are polarized war of independence continues until victories settlers control based on violence so natives must use it to get freedom Dalton Nonviolent Power in Action o about Gandhi s use of non violence as power Collins and Lappe Why Can t People Feed Themselves o o why is there poverty in the third world colonialism tactics like taxation plantations to supply rest of world with what they need and not its own people ex famine in India b c of Brits cash crops on plantations marketing boards that lock out producers so they have no control get way less money than their crop is making control of land labor cap ital Huntington The West Unique Not Universal o there are things that make the West unique the spread of Western culture does not weaken other places each culture has a unique mindset w culture reli gion language modernization is a natural shift o Classical Legacy Greek Roman influence Christianity sense of com munity European languages distinguished dif ppl Separation of church and state contributed to freedom Rule of law human rights Social Pluralism built civil society limits absolutism rep bodies Individualism result of many of the above Stiglitz Globalization and Inequality problem is how globalization is managed if undemocratic then it is disad vantageous to developing countries East Asian countries shared their benefits from globalization equally b c of exports gov t regulation stability Barber Jihad vs McWorld neither global corps nor traditional cultures are supportive of democracy Krueger and Maleckova Does Poverty Cause Terrorism the content of education is important terrorism seems to stem from politi cal conditions and long standing feelings of indignity frustration Chua Globalizing Hate Chinese dominate Filipinos in all aspects of industry and commerce the global spread of free market democracy reinforces ethnic violence o o o o The Great War I Social Darwinism II Bourgeois World dying world working class conformists materialism obsessed A Wandervogel Futurist Movement cult focused on virtues of youth want to energize society they were frustrated restless and believed world lacked energy was boring B Nietszche modern ppl should push society forward themselves w Will to Power ppl are not rational III Causes of War A Colonial Rivalries B German ambitions to be world power 1 Bismarck united Germany into nation by defeating Austria and France 2 Kaiser Wilhelm II C System of Alliances 1 Triple Alliance Germany Austria Hungary Italy Italy leaves this alliance joins Triple Entente a b Ottoman Empire joins Triple Alliance 2 Triple Entente Britain France Russia 3 All these entered war b c of irrational fear of future and French wanted to get back at Germany and get their territory back 1 Ethnic groups in various empires want national independence a Serbs wanted out of Austria Hungary to join Serbia 1 Nicholas II Czar of Russia wants to unite all Slavic peoples with himself as new D Nationalism E Pan slavism Caesar F Boredom 1 New stultifying nature of life in prosperous bourgeois Europe seems to drain mean ing excitement out of life 2 War is seen as a purifying ennobling experience no bad wars in Europe b4 WWI 3 intellectual revolution of thinking based on Freud G Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Serbian nationalist group the Black Hand sets off war IV World War I A Von Schlieffen Plan warfare airplanes submarines 4 Battles of Somme and Verdun Events that Weakened Bourgeois World 1 Attempt by Germany to knock France out of the war by attacking them first and then Russia so they don t have to fight on two fronts 2 Doesn t work Britain got more soldiers from BEF and Russia mobilized faster than Germany thought Britain also cut supply lines to Germany 3 New weapons gas tanks high explosive first industrial war barbed wire trench 1 Russian Bolshevik Revolution 1917 Lenin led Bolsheviks and destroyed regime of czars announced intention to kill capitalism 2 Freud s psychoanalysis theories challenged liberalism by saying ppl not rational b c of 3 WWI psychologically affected ppl b c it was so bad all changed traditional enlighten struggle w subconscious mind ment opinions V The Aftermath of WWI Europes wealth gone no more rational ppl Freud was right