HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: New Historians, Pragmatism, Christian Democracy
8 Nov 2020
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Versailles: legitimizing nation-state (with arbitrary boundaries) as alternative to monarchies and empires. Wwii: shift balance of world power away from europe: germany conquered continent, liberation by usa and ussr. Unification was a specific response to a series of problems which confronted a group of countries in western europe in the immediate aftermath of 1945: failure of nation-states in wwii. States failed to protect citizens against external aggression: current weakness, changed relationships world, dependency usa, losing power colonial regions, instability international politics: ussr us, third force against super-powers, christian democracy transnational faith, germany problem (most important) Europe together against germany/europe with germany (only western part) Korean war remilitarize germany and japan: size as key to economic success. British opposition european integration: europe had brought war, economic relations with us had brought prosperity before. European cole and steel community: federal/functional. Supra national institutions & two tiers of government/integrated decision making within specific sectors.
