POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Denazification, Nuclear Meltdown, Mikhail Gorbachev
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Everything up to and including the cold war. 2 essays (answer 1), no short answer - you have 1 hour to answer it. Make sure to keep your answers clear (define words, cite answers) Hard to see human history through a lens of morality: Europeans were driven to colonialism not because they are evil, but by the necessity of protecting their security because of the influence of other european states. The decision to use nuclear weapons is still debated till today - nukes transformed international politics. At the time of the decision, the context was different. More people killed by conventional bombs in fire-bombing of tokyo compared to hiroshima. Historians have discovered that the japanese were looking for ways of surrender and the us new this. The us rejected the proposal of keeping the emperor as head of state, they wanted a quick end to the war. Wanted to bring the war in asia to a halt quickly.
