HTST 307 Lecture 25: HTST Lec _25
30 Apr 2019
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Estrangement and waging cold war, 1946-1947, truman tended to think of the yalta agreement as a "contract" between east and. West: period of growing estrangement between us and ussr marked by disputes and disagreements over the. If britain can"t contain the soviet in eastern mediterranean, the us would have to. As us, your biggest fear: 1947-1990, 20 millino people will be killed by proxy wars/liberation wars. Authoritarian model: japan: hybrid that some scholars have labeled the "soft authoritarianism" Includes a state-directed economic policy but a capitalist market: democratic constitution, largely crafted by american occupation authorities, to create a more pluralistic system but de facto single part rule. Japan"s challenges remain the same from what they"d been a century earlier: lack of natural resources and raw materials, lack of farmland, advantages, education, homogenous population, skilled and experienced workforce, given american economic aid.
