Elective 3: A review of the framework of War and Peace in the Twentieth Century

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Translation of the preface to the Chinese version.

Preface to the first edition.

Preamble to the Supplement.

Chapter I: War and Peace.

Section 1 The Concept of War.

Section 2: International and Domestic History.

Section 3: Power and Culture.

Chapter 2 The Road to World War.

Section 1: Bismarck's International Order.

Section 2 Expansion of the Army and Preparations for War.

Section 3 Domestic Political and Social Structure.

Section 4 The Possibility of Local War.

Section 5 Imperialist Wars.

Section 6 Economic Development and Peace.

Chapter 3 The Emergence of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan.

Section 1 From the European Civil War to the World War.

Section 2 The Role of the United States.

Section 3 Bolshevism and Peace.

Section 4 Japan's View of War and Peace.

Section 5 The Significance of the Paris Peace Conference.

Chapter 4 The Idea of Peace in the Twenties of the Twentieth Century.

Section 1 Disarmament and trade, the cornerstone of peace.

Section 2: The Rise and Fall of the Theory of Revolutionary Peace.

Section 3 Knowledge Exchange.

Section 4 Anti-pacifism.

Chapter 5: The Collapse of the Peace Theory.

Section 1 Characteristics of the thirties of the twentieth century.

Section 2 The Inevitability of War.

Section 3: War and Culture.

Section 4 The Frustration of the Idea of Peace.

Chapter VI: Return to Checks and Balances of Power.

Section 1: Competition of Strength.

Section 2 The Ideological Cornerstone of the Second World War.

Section 3 Prospects for post-war peace.

Section 7 Cold War.

Section 1 "Peace" in 1945

Section 2: The Rise of Psychosis.

Section 3: The Search for Peace.

Chapter VIII The War of National Liberation.

Section 1 Wars in the Third World.

Section 2: From the New International Economic Order to the New Cold War.

Chapter IX Non-** Organizations and the International Community.

Section 1 The End of the Cold War.

Section 2 The Emergence of International Terrorism.

Section 3: The Role of Non-** Organizations.

Section 4 Cultural Diversity and the International Order.

Conclusion: The Quest and Pursuit of Peace in the Era of Globalization.

Translator's postscript.

List of Test Centers].

1 World War I.

1) The historical background of the outbreak of the First World War.

2) The course of the First World War.

3) The aftermath of the First World War.

2 Versailles: Peace under the Washington system.

1) The construction of the Versailles system.

2) The construction of the Washington system.

3) "Non-War Pact".

4) League of Nations.

3 World War II.

1) The historical background of the outbreak of World War II.

2) The course of the Second World War.

3) The historical significance of the victory in the anti-fascist war.

4 Cold War and Peace under the Yalta Regime.

1) The formation of the Cold War situation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

2) The upsurge of the anti-war peace movement of the people of the world.

3) In the seventies and eighties, the United States and the Soviet Union went from tense confrontation to seeking détente and dialogue.

4) The emergence of the United Nations and its main activities in maintaining world peace.

5 Local wars with continuous beacons.

1) The Korean War and the Vietnam War.

2) The war in the Middle East.

3) The Indo-Pakistani War and the Iran-Iraq War.

4) The Gulf War.

6 Peace and development are the main themes of the times in today's world.

This topic focuses on the major wars that have taken place since the beginning of the twentieth century and the human efforts for peace. This topic occupies a considerable proportion in the traditional college entrance examination, mainly focusing on the adjustment of the international pattern after the two world wars and World War II. The college entrance examination proposition has the following characteristics:

1) The great disasters brought by the Second World War to mankind are the focus of the college entrance examination, and reflecting on war and pursuing peace are the themes of the college entrance examination questions, for example, the description of the cruelty of war in question 43 of the 2008 Ningxia Wen Comprehensive Paper, and the examination of the League of Nations and the United Nations in the 2008 Shandong Wen Comprehensive Paper.

2) The materials involved in the new course elevation examination questions are relatively small, and the level of questions is not much, which reflects the requirements of the college entrance examination for elective content, that is, not to pursue "too difficult" and "too complicated".

3) The content of this topic is closely related to the hot topics of the college entrance examination, such as the Middle East issue, the Korean Peninsula issue, the role of the United Nations, the Iraq issue, etc.

High-frequency test center] 1. World War I.

1 Why did World War I break out at the beginning of the 20th century?

1) At the beginning of the 20th century, the major capitalist countries entered the stage of imperialism one after another, and the colonies were of great significance; At the same time, there was a major change in the balance of power in the major capitalist countries, and virtue rose to the top of the list.

In the first and second places, Britain and France fell to.

The third or fourth place, and the world's colonies have been divided, and Britain and France occupy the most colonies. Countries with rapidly growing economic power, such as Germany and the United States, are demanding a repartition of the world according to a new balance of power.