LECTURE 1 KEYTERMS  
REVIEW OF HISTORY OF UNITED STATES and RUSSIA and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BEFORE 1945   

Civilization Wars (Clash of Civilizations Part 1)

Pentateuch - Old Testament

New Testament

Qur'an (Koran)

Abrahamic Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam

The First Crusade (1096-1099)

Religious Wars (1517-1648)

Roman Catholic Popes as king-makers

Protestant Reformation

Counter-Reformation

Martin Luther

Thirty Year War 1608-1648

Peace [Treaty] of Westphalia 1648

Westphalian State System
 
Dynastic Wars 1688–1748

Louis XIV

Seven Year War

French Revolution 1789

Ideological Wars Part I (1792-1815)

Monarchism vs. Republicanism

"Realm" vs. "Nation"

"subject" vs. "citizen"

nationalism

internationalism

international relations

French Revolution 1789

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802

Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815

French Revolution 1789

French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802

Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815

Wars of Colonial Conquest (1492-1945)

Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich

Metternich Doctrine -
Balance of Power Theory

Emergence of the Great Powers

Wars of Balance of Power (1848-1918)

National Revolutions 1848 - The Middle Class Revolutions

Karl Marx - Communism

International Organizations -
Laws of Warfare - Geneva Convention - Hague Convention -
Postal Union - Red Cross

Telegraph - Steam Power - mass print media - democracy and public opinion

"Four Great Industrial Wars"

Crimean War 1854 - 1856
American Civil War 1861 - 1865
Austro-Prussian War 1866
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

Emergence of the United States of America and its Foreign Policy 1776-1945

American Revolution 1776

Monroe Doctrine

Manifest Destiny

American Expansionism

Mexican American War 1846-1848

American Civil War 1861-1865

U.S. Admiral Perry and the Black Ships Japan 1858

Spanish-American War 1898

Central Powers

Allies

"The Great War"  First World War World War I  (1914-1918)

US entry into WWI  April 1917

Woodrow Wilson

Paris Peace Conference - Versailles Treaty 1919

Wilson's Fourteen Points

League of Nations

collective security

isolationism (non entanglement)

Great Depression

Dirty Thirties / the Low Dishonest Decade

Ideological Wars Part II  1930 - 1945

Rise of Fascism - National Socialism (Nazis)

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Japanese Imperial Military Junta

Hideki Tojo

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Rape of Nanking (Dec 1937 - Jan 1938)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt—FDR

Second World War (World War II) 1939-1945

Blitzkrieg

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

Operation Torch, Nov. 1942

Imperial Russia as a Great Power and the Russian Revolutions 1812 - 1924

Tsar Nicholas I

"gendarme of Europe"
post-1848 Constitutional Monarchies vs. Russian Absolute Monarchy
Ottoman Empire

Dardanelle Straits

Black Sea

Crimean War (1853-56)

"industrial wars"

Tsar Alexander II

Tsar Nicholas II

Russo-Japanese War of 1905

Port Arthur

Battleship Potemkin

1905 Russian Revolution
Marxist Bolshevik faction of Russian Social Democratic Party 

Duma

February Revolution of 1917

Abdication of the Tsar

Provisional Russian Republic

October "Revolution" of 1917

the sealed railway car

Vladimir Illych Ulyanov -- Lenin

Soviets

Russian Civil War 1918-1923

Red Army - White Army

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Russian Intervention

Diplomats Plot

Shield of the Revolution

Cheka - GRU - NKVD - KGB - FSB/SVR

class war

Back in the USA - 1880 - 1920

trade unionism

“conspiracy to restrict trade”

anarchists

Haymarket Square Bombing (Riot)

US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer

Assassination of William McKinley (Sept 1901)

The Rise of the "Administrative Security State"

J. Edgar Hoover
Espionage Act of 1917 & Sedition Act of 1918

Eugene Debs

Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) "Wobblies"

Red Scare

1919 Anarchist Bombings

Palmer Raids

American Civil Liberties Union – the ACLU

Mario 'Mike' Buda (Buda's Wagon)

Wall Street Bombing September 1920 

Back in the USSR - 1924-1939

Comintern

Bipolar World - Communism vs. Free Enterprise Capitalism
(Communal Totalitarianism vs. Capitalist Democracy)

Nikolai Bukharin Leon Trotsky "Revolutionary Maxism" vs. Joseph Stalin "socialism in one country"

collectivization

Great Terror 1937

Gulag

NKVD

Tripolar World -- Communism vs. Free Enterprise Capitalism vs. Fascist National Socialism

(Communal Totalitarianism vs. Capitalist Democracy vs. Totalitarian State-Corporate Capitalism)

Wiemar Republic and Hitler's electoral campaigns

"Germany Awake" "Making Germany Great Again"

Third Reich (Third Empire) Nazi German Racial Police State 1933-1945

Nuremberg Trials 1946-1950

Crimes Against Peace (Conspiracy to Commit Aggression)
War Crimes
Crimes Against Humanity (Genocide)

Nazi Foreign Policy

"quiet aggression"

Munich Agreement 1938 ("Munich")

SS Gestapo

Concentration Camps

Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Treaty (Ribbentrop Pact/Stalin-Hitler Pact)

Blitzkrieg Poland September 1, 1939

Partition of Poland

Blitzkrieg in the West 1940

Fall of France

Vichy France

Operation Sea Lion

Operation Barbarossa
June 2, 1941

"The Big Three"

Elbe Link-up

Berlin 1945

Partition of Germany and Berlin

Berlin Wall (1961)