CAST 2285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fallout Shelter, Cim-10 Bomarc, Distant Early Warning Line
5 Apr 2016
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Communism: system envisioning eliminaion of private property with goods owned communally and distributed equally; soviet union a one-party, totalitarian state (state hold total authority), run by communist party of the soviet union; state-run economy. Democracy: system featuring private property, unequal distribuion; united states, great. Britain, canada- muliparty democracies, featuring free elecions; free market economics (proit as moivator) Important psychological efect: east versus the west, didn"t quesion your allies and their moives; enemies are wrong. Second world war alliances: axis: germany, japan, italy, allies: canada, united states, britain, soviet union. Allied powers did not see eye to eye. Difering world views: canada, united states, and great britain democracies; soviet. June 1941 germany breaks non=aggression pact, launching operaion barbarossa- largest military campaign in history. Soviets sought to join the allies to take down nazi germany. Postwar division: soviet union installs puppet governments in europe, eastern bloc" countries under soviet inluence: czechoslovakia, poland, romania,
