HIST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kim Il-Sung, Nuclear Arms Race, Anti-Imperialism
20 Feb 2018
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Module iv: the cold war spreads to asia. This module explores the ways/how the cold war expanded into asian countries. First we explored, the rise of communist china, followed by korea and how the cold war influenced social, political, ideological aspects of the country (the first country where the cold war turned into a hot war). A bit of clarification, the cold war was not entirely "hot", while the us and. Soviet union never directly fought each other on the battleground, there were many "hot wars" were their ideologies, values did fight. It is important to understand why the korean war occurred and why it did not spread to other countries (the domino effect that happened in eastern. The final part of this module will try to place asia in a broader context of soviet american rivalry. There is a debate on where the cold war originated, despite the module suggesting that the cold.
