HIS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bretton Woods System, Atlantic Charter, Worldwar Series

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1101
• Professor: Jean- Louis Trudel

Document Summary

Revocation of fascism: world war ii proved unusually destructive, devastating infrastructure, while spurring widespread civilian suffering. The atlantic dream: atlantic principles as a formula for world regeneration. Charter the west picked up the glove thrown down by the axis, renounced nazi barbarism, and elevated world war ii into a global struggle between fascism and democracy to determine the future. Stalin was not a party to the atlantic conference, nor did he support the liberal sentiments embedded in the atlantic charter. After hitler unleashed his brutal annihilation war on the soviet union, however, the russians came to share western abhorrence for fascism and joined their crusade against global fascism. During the course of the war, both east and west officially endorsed the. Atlantic principles as a template for postwar reconstruction. Emergence of a new international system (1945-1948: following germany and japan"s surrender, the atlantic principles of peace and prosperity were enshrined in the edifice of a new international system.