HIST258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eastern Bloc, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-Shek
11 Sep 2016
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Lecture 09: birth of the cold war, two blocs, containment in asia, economic growth, affluence at home, detractors, the eisenhower admin. The cold war was a long, global war that ranged from ideological debates to military conflict and covert operations: birth of the cold war. Stalin"s expansionism insatiable: many american thought they always wanted to expand, borders only got to the same size to their prior imperial pzar, stalin gave no record of a worldwide communist regime (unlike lenin after wwi) Greek civil war between nationalists/royalists and communists - chiang kai-shek vs mao. Zedong: britain was dominant power from greece and defeated communist, stalin had no issue with this. Pic: joseph stalin, time magazine"s man of the year , 1940. American peace aims:focus on a world without trade barriers (liberalism: wanted open pluralist"s world. Bretton woods monetary conferencing, july1944: turned to neo-liberalism.
