POLSCI 2I03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Henry Kissinger, Treaty Of Versailles, Nikita Khrushchev

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Mark Busser

Document Summary

First, modern, industrialized total war as those who were in the war mobilized their pop. Wwii was more total in nature and global in scope as it fundamentally changed world politics. The relationship between ussr and usa went from allies to antagonists. The first ww caused demis to four european empires: roman, german, austro-hungarian, and ottoman(in turkey) The biggest legacy from wwii was the atomic bomb that the nazi germany had which would have given germany the first real win in nuclear arms race. The cold war provided both context and pretext for growth of nuclear arsenals. Serbian nationalist assassination of the heir of austro-hungarian throne, archduke franz. Fedinand, began a war of a-h and serbia. Russia had alliance with serbia and germany was with a-h, began euro-wide war. Germany made a bad move attacking france through belgium, bringng more allies to aid a-h. The german agression of internal politics needs of a autocratic ally was responsible for the war.