Brave New World: World Instability
Brave New World: World Instability
I. Video Intro of World Instability (3:50)
II. Past examples of world instability (Chad)
A. Russian Revolution
a. http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution
b. After Bolshevik forces executed Czar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918, the killers hid the victims’ mutilated bodies. The remains were discovered and exhumed in the late 1970s near Yekaterinburg, Russia, and eventually identified through DNA testing.
B. World War II
a. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii
b. The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany, and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party) had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World.
c. Germany inflation reflects the economic instability
d. Hitler’s personal police force (Nazis) is government instability
C. American Revolution
a. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution
b. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures
I. Video Intro of World Instability (3:50)
II. Past examples of world instability (Chad)
A. Russian Revolution
a. http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution
b. After Bolshevik forces executed Czar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918, the killers hid the victims’ mutilated bodies. The remains were discovered and exhumed in the late 1970s near Yekaterinburg, Russia, and eventually identified through DNA testing.
B. World War II
a. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii
b. The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany, and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party) had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World.
c. Germany inflation reflects the economic instability
d. Hitler’s personal police force (Nazis) is government instability
C. American Revolution
a. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution
b. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures
Cited: Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World,. New York: Harper & Bros., 1946. Print. Sedghi, Ami, and Simon Rogers. "Divorce Rates Data, 1858 to Now: How Has It Changed?" The Guardian Washington Post. The Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2011. Web. 16 May 2013.