Political Science 43001
Causes of War
Professor Dan Lindley
*Syllabus *Handouts and Advice
Assignments (if needed to supplement syllabus): *Response/Analysis Papers (RAPs)
Why?
Kurds killed in Iraq by Iraq
(3500 +/- killed in similar attacks against Kurds; 1,276,000 battle deaths in Iran/Iraq and Gulf Wars)
Atomic bomb explosion; effects of atomic bomb on Nagasaki
(70,000+ killed at Nagasaki; 16,634,907 WWII battle deaths)
Ethnic checkpoint in Rwanda; Tutsis were identified and killed, often by machete
(800,000 Tutsis were killed in 100 days)
World War I machine gun; Russian soldier dead on barbed wire
(8,578,031 WWI battle deaths)