PSCI 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mikhail Gorbachev, Truman Doctrine, Warsaw Pact
16 Dec 2017
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Class 5 cold war and post-cold war. Failure to implement principles agreed at yalta and potsdam. Arms race (need for second strike capability) D tente relaxation of tensions between east and west characterized by negotiations and nuclear arms control agreements. An attempt to deal with china and the soviet union after realizing that the ussr wasn"t the only one spreading communism as china was communist in nature and was spreading rebellions in places like vietnam. Now null and void since bush: salt 1 limitations on icbm. Soviet invasion of afghanistan dec. 1979: soviet union aggressive in the third world . Election of ronald reagan (called soviet union the evil empire ) Once again, a real fear of nuclear war. Escalating arms race, new generation of nuclear weapons, sdi program. Mikhail gorbachev new thinking, glasnost, perestroika, sinatra doctrine: eliminating nuclear weapons, rebuild the soviet state. Arms control agreement inf (1987), start (1990)
