HST 604 Lecture 1: HST604 - Module 1 Notes
5 May 2020
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Hst 604 module 1 international relations before 1941. Nodirectwarwas declared more than just a series offacts. Avoid judging other peoples choices espionage economic aid diplomatic pressure proxywars effectsworld we live intoday hindsight isalways 20120. Traditionalists wrote in 1940s 1950s put blame on soviets. Us open to cooperation depict stalin as cynicalmanipulator1opportunist bent on worlddomination compromise bymuscows aggression expansionforced americans containment. Refused toblomoscowforbreakdown in cooperation in 1940s a usraised tensions through questioninane behaviourduring war. Post revisionalists emerged in 1970s offered amore balanced view ledby johnlewisgaddis international relationsduringthecold war. National interests security shapedeverycountry"s foreignpolicy decisionsmadebyreal orperceivedinsecurities geographydetermined a countrys alliances access to resources significantlyshapedbyideologies. Monroe doctrine established in early 1820s warned europeans toavoidinterferingin americansphereofinfluence. Usexpanded into haywaii mexico un guen puerta phi us become word power. Bolsheviks russianrevolutionaries wholunched a successful coupagainsttheprovisionalgovernment in october1917. Leninseizedpower intee name of propelled into violent civil war whiles werenomatchfor redarmy. Westwere terrifiedof moscow campaignforoboimonofexistingorder keyreasonfor instabitytoprevent germany"saggressiveforeignpolicyin 1930s thesoviets.
