POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cuban Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro, Marshall Plan
8 Feb 2017
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The cold war was a state of political and military tension after world war ii between powers in the eastern bloc (the soviet union and its satellite states) and powers in the. Western bloc (the united states, its nato allies and others) The west wanted to destroy communism and spread capitalism and the need for markets. Two sides split by the iron curtain . The term cold is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, supported by the two sides. A series of unfortunate events (major points in the cold war) The marshall plan begins (1948) used to reconstruct cities in europe. The formation of nato (1949) and other collective security organizations led by the. Mao takes power in china (1949) after the brutal struggle between the nationalists and the communists, the usa believes that china is lost to the communists.
