Unit 2: Pursuing Nationalism —> Ultranationalism

National Interest

• Benefits for themselves & their community

• economic prosperity, security and safety, beliefs and values

Peacekeepers

armed forces that maintain peace by keeping enemies apart until crisis has been resolved through diplomacy and negotiation

Peacemaking

• uses force for reasons other than self defence

Arctic Sovereignty

• National interests can also be claiming sovereignty over territory

• 2 Factors/Cons of Arctic Sovereignty > Climate Change, extensive oil, natural gas, gold, and diamonds that get sent to arctic deposits

Domestic Policy

A plan of action taken that guides a governments decisions within its country

Foreign Policy

A plan of action taken that is used to guide a government’s official relations with other countries

WW1

fought over for sovereignty, territory, economic interests, security, nationalism and national identity

• M- Militarism: Aggressively preparing for war

• A- Alliances: Created to balance power throughout Europe

• I- Imperialism: gaining territories for a colonial empire

• N- Nationalism: Seeking Independent nations for dominance & prestige

Assimilation Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand = Beginning of WW1 and Total War

• Ultranationalism- fanatically loyal to your nation, but hostile towards other nations

• Total war - complete mobilization of resources and people

• Conscription - compulsory military services

Major Imperial Powers

England, France, Germany

The Triple Entente

Germany, France, Russia, Britain , US, Russia…..

Triple Alliance

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

After WW1

• Treaty Of Versailles towards Germany: Compensation, give up territory in Europe as well as its colonies

• 14 Points

• Germany and Italy no longer alliances

Battle Of Vimy Ridge

The beginning Of Canadian Nationalism

Appeasement

Accepting the conditions/demands of an aggressor

The Great Depression

• Economic Downfall

Genocide

• Killing of members of a racial, national, religious, and ethnic group

Rise Of Hitler

• Promised to restore Germany national pride, make it the leading nation on earth

  • Refusing the TOV

  • rebuild German armed forces & reclaim lost territories

  • Aryan Race/Pure white = Pure german

  • German Ultranationalistic Propaganda > focused on past glories/nationalist values in the past

• Hitler passed laws that took away Jew rights

• Made concentration Camps

Internment Camp WW1 Canada

• Ukranian and German people

Internment Camp WW2 Canada

• Japanese, Italian, and German

Conscription Crisis from WW1-WW2 Canada

• WW1- Obvious divide between Anglaphone’s and Francophones

• WW2- limited form of conscription

Crimes against humanity

• Widespread/systematic attack on civilian population

War Crimes

• Wilful killing/torture/inhumane treatment of civilian population

Famine In Ukraine (Holodomor)

• Joseph Stalin wanted Ukraine farmland to belong to the state —> kulaks, opposed it (burned their crops and livestocks)

• led to manmade famine

• Collectivization - cannot own anything privately, must be owned by a collective

Holocaust

• Genocide of Jews

• Concentration Camps

After WW2

• created an international body to preserve peace in the world ( United Nations )

Decolonization

• Colonial power withdraws from a colony

Successor state

• Country created from a previous state