Lecture Outline and Terms for:The Consolidation of the World as a System and its Disintegration, 1900-1945
 
 

I. The Impact of the West on the World, the State of Play c. 1900-1914
 

A. The Breakdown of Western Colonization: An Overview
 

1. Economy

a. Local Economies
 
 
 
 

b. Global Economy
 
 
 
 
 

2. Environment
 
 

3. Social and Cultural Impact

a. Extended Families
 

b. Religion
 
 
 

c. Political Ideas:

1. Western Ideas in the Non-Western World

a. Nationalism
 

b. Socialism
 

c. Communism
 

d. Indigenous Political Parties
 
 
 
 
 

2. National Symbols

d. Population

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

II. World War I

     A. World War I and Afterwards

          1.Significance of the World War I in Non-Western World
 
 
 
 

          2. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Communism
 
 

          3. Liberal Democracy vs. Fascism, 1920-1945
 
 
 

III. Nationalism and Decolonization: South Africa, India, and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
 

     A. India:

          1. Sepoy Mutiny, End of BEIC and Mughal Empire, and Aftermath
 
 
 
 
 

          2. Early Independence Movements

               a. Brahmo Samaj
 

               b. Indian National Congress
 
 
 

          3. The End of Accommodation

               a. Partition of Bengal and Aftermath, c. 1905/1906
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

               b. WWI, Amritsar Massacre and Aftermath
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

     B. Indonesia

          1. PKI and Radical Indonesian Nationalism
 
 
 
 
 
 

          2. The Partai Nasional Indonesia and Mainstream Nationalism
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

     C. South Africa: African Nationalism and Boer Nationalism combined to finish off the Segregation era and usher in Apartheid.
 

          1. Black South African Nationalism/Freedom Movement
 
 
 
 

          2. Boer/Afrikaner Nationalism
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

IV. World War II

     A. World War II and the Challenge to Colonialism

          1. Political Results

          2. War and Society
 

          3. Impact on Colonialism