Frontier/Imperialism

Russian and American
Frontier and Imperialist Expansion:
Similarities and differences between the two pairs of keywords above,
with links to SAC & MAPS

Table of Contents =
Earliest epochs
Indigenous peoples
20th-century imperialism and World War One
World War Two
Cold War
Third World
New World Order
Bibliography of General Works

RUSSIA [MAP \| Moving MAP]	Shared [MAP] [MAP]	USA [MAP] [MAP]
1223:1328; GOLDEN HORDE (Mongol [Tatar] Dominion) Russia as victim of frontier and imperialist expansion (EG= Mongol invasion) [MAP#1 \| MAP#2]
14th-16th centuries: Stroganov north [a 9-hop LOOP] [MAP]
1580s:Yermak [Ermak] [MAP] 1600s: Voevody [a 9-jump LOOP] NB! = Siberian Prikaz & 1680s:Khabarov & freebooter voevody in Amur.R basin [MAP]		1600s:[USA] Atlantic New World corporations and colonialist diaspora to "New World" [LOOP] [MAP]
1689au27:Nerchinsk Treaty followed Russian "bump" against China [MAP#1 \| \| MAP#2 \| MAP#3]		USA "bumped" against remote powers [MAP] [MAP] = 1760s: England (involving native Americans) 1803:France below 1867:Russia below (column 2) 1898:Spain below
Canal project, linking Volga and Don rivers (3-hop LOOP)	1780:Russian Empress Catherine II aided USA rebels with "League of Armed Neutrality"	1776:1812; USA Revolutionary consolidation vs. England
1741:1867; Russian America: Intense "shared history" of frontier/imperialist expansion began 1815:1817; Hawaiian episode [MAP] [MAP]	1799my08:Russian America Co. founded [9-hop LOOP] Ft.Ross [GOOGLE EARTH]	1803ap30:USA made Louisiana Purchase from France [MAP]
1820s:1860s; Central Asia lured Russia away from the New World [MAP]	1823de02:USA issued "Monroe Doctrine" [MAP]	1825:Erie Canal project
	Fort Ross CA [pix] [pix] [MAP] [W]
	1853:+; Manchuria, China & Japan [MAP] \| Putiatin LOOP involves USA	1846:1870s; USA War with Mexico [MAP]

	Indigenous Peoples =
E. Siberian Bashkirs [13-hop LOOP, nearly 2 centuries]	1770s & 1870s+: Mennonites 1770s+: Jewish "national minorities"	Native Americans in Eastern USA [MAP] ...in Western USA [MAP] USA indigenous Native Americans from 1675 to 1870s (about 2 centuries). including =
	1831+: International grain trade LOOP	East-coast indigenous peoples, Cherokees
Chechen/Ingush [LOOP]		1856+: USA waged war on Great Plains Native Americans
	1867:Russia sold Alaska to USA\| Native peoples of Alaska [MAP]
Violent anti-semitism [ID]		Violent racism [ID]

The era of "high imperialism" & World War One [WW1]:

Russia	Shared [Read the general web page devoted to imperialism down to the "Outline Chronology"]	USA
1877:1879; Russo-Turkish War [MAP] Can you link Russo-Turkish War & Berlin Congress with the shared experiences accounted in the next table cell? =>	Wheat zones, USA Wheat zones, Russia Global petroleum industry Economic Modernization [Phase Two]
1891:1903; Trans-Siberian railroad completed [MAP]		1896:1898; USA in Spanish-American War;
1904:1905; Russo-Japanese War [MAP#1 \| [MAP#2]	1898:1905; US imperialism [11-hop LOOP to the end of the Russo-Japanese War [MAP]
	1914au01:1918no11; World War One: [MAP] Three fronts expand WW1 chronology = 1a = 1912:1918+; Southern Front [LOOP], including 1b = 1918:1920; Allied military intervention in revolutionary Russia 2 = 1914:1917; Eastern Front 3 = 1914:1918; Western Front	1917:1918; USA joined war on the Western Front in its final 18 mos., then joined allied intervention in Russian Revolution
	LOOPS = League of Nations vs. the Comintern	1918:1933; USA Inter-war isolation (from Europe)
USSR & internal colonization: the Gulag system		1933no:USA granted diplomatic recognition to USSR
	World War Two [WW2] Economic Modernization [Phase Three]
	In Europe [MAP]	In the Pacific [MAP]
	*--Precipitating events =
	Japanese Empire invaded China
	Hitler Germany turned toward Eastern Europe
*--Four phases of WW2 =
1a = Hitler settled with USSR and took western Poland USSR and Lithuania took eastern Poland	1b = Hitler then turned against Western Europe
2a = Hitler swiftly defeated and occupied Western Europe, then Sent forces against the USSR	2b = Mediterranean front protected British and French colonial possessions
3 =		Japanese Empire attacked USA (Pacific Front of WW2)
4 =	Western front revived
1945au06:USSR declared war on Japan USSR withdrew from Manchuria and Western China USSR withdrew from Austria	--Wartime agreements = Lend-Lease Act * Atlantic Charter * "Big Three" met before USA directly involved in WW2 * Early promises of a second front * Casablanca Conf. * Moscow "four power declaration" * Teheran Conference * Cairo Conference * Yalta Conference * Potsdam Conference at end of the European war * Final efforts at comprehensive diplomatic solutions

	Cold War = Northern hemisphere map World at end of WW2 map
	From destruction to recovery = Europe in ruins *1945se:1949je; Allied Council of Foreign Ministers tried, and failed, to avoid global conflict in the post-WW2 era [LOOP]
== Strategic visions ==	== Strategic visions ==	== Strategic visions ==
USSR Ambassador Nikolai Novikov	* Alva Myrdal (a global vision) * Charles de Gaulle (a French view) * Kwame Nkrumah (African "Third World" view) * J-J. Servan-Schreiber (European dissent)	USA Ambassador George Frost Kennan AND USA National Security Council and Paul Nitze AND Hans J.Morgenthau
	--Remilitarization: Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech * "Truman Doctrine" * USA National Security Act * NATO * LOOP on Military-industrial complex * Narrative extension = Military-industrial complex	Marshall Plan
	--Lost Chances to End It = Death of Stalin & election of Eisenhower * 1955jy:Geneva "Four-Power" Conference
	--European front = Czechoslovakia * Cominform * Berlin Blockade * 1948de:Polish politics under Soviet control * "ComEcon" * European Coal and Steel Community * Germany into NATO * Federal Republic of "West Germany" * Warsaw Pact * Conjunction of events = Egypt & Hungary

* 1957:USSR-China * Afghanistan	--"Third World" Theoretical views --Asian front = Chinese Revolution * Indonesia * Korea --Four WaP maps explain Middle East chaos [ E-TXT] Bandung Conference * Afghanistan	* Atomic Bomb * Vietnam
	--Other fronts = Iran * Algerian Revolution * Cuban Missile Crisis * Home front dissent	* The OAS * 1954:Guatemala

	New World Order? =
* Soviet Perestroika 1989:1992; USSR collapse [MAP]	* European Union * GLOBALIZATION, according to Walker	1992+: USA "victory" in the era of the "New World Order [Disorder]"?
Russian struggles in Chechnya
2004se10:Beslan school attack	1990s+: Russia and USA, both targets of "terrorism" [ID], introduce significant institutional changes in order to deal with terrorism (6-hop LOOP)	2001se11:Terrorist attacks on USA targets
	"War on terrorism" [6-paragraph ID] as a variety of "total war" [ID]	Review article on Iraq and the "New World Order"
	New World Order = Most Recent Events *2013+:Ukraine Crisis

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL WORKS

*--Russia and the wider world in historical perspective : Essays for Paul Dukes

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