POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anti-Imperialism, Ak-47, Domino Theory
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As a result of growing conflicts, 2 treaties were formed: north atlantic treaty and the warsaw pack. We"re trying to draw an outline of how state systems came into existence. These overlap: pivots 2 diff. ideologies and the social systems put them against each other. While it"s easy to conclude that the soviet"s system lost to capitalism, this is only partially true. Ultimately, they collapsed, but many advances were achieved in the soviet system. Continuously, in particular, in eastern europe, compared their situation to that in the west, was better. So they all broke away and the soviet governments collapsed. The west then claims that after the fall of the eastern european social system, capitalism won. Some developing countries are still governed through communism; ex. The only reason why cuba survived from the us was because of the soviets. Union fell, you"d expect cuba to also fall, but the relevant comparison for cuba was.
