UGC 112 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: John Maynard Keynes, Mao Zedong, Utopia
3 Dec 2017
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Section 17: 20th century was a century of atrocities -> partly because it was a century of war. War is morally brutalizing -> concealed by wartime censorship. Propaganda -> concentrates on genuinely ennobling effects of combat. Corrupting effects of war -> omitted from the picture: war stimulates massacres -> (cid:271)li(cid:374)ds people to thei(cid:396) e(cid:374)e(cid:373)ies" hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)it(cid:455) Worst recorded massacre of the war -> nanjing in 1937. Japanese soldiers who took part in the slaughter -> found their own behavior impossible to understand. Ideological & intercommunal hatreds stimulated inhuman behavior -> made worse by war conditions. Wwii -> nazis set out to exterminate groups they blamed for the ills of society. Holocaust -> murder of millions of jews. Nazi vision of utopia -> demanded a world in which the weak had been discarded: genocide -> occurred at flashpoints of ethnic tension. After wwii -> german minorities on the receiving end of campaigns of annihilation.
