POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cuban Missile Crisis, Mutual Assured Destruction, Nikita Khrushchev
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Very high stakes with total annihilation should it become a hot war . Yalta conference, 1945: unconditional surrender of germany, germany divided into four zones and pay reparations, free and fair elections in poland, war criminals would be punished, above all, the division of europe into spheres of influence. Winston churchill speech about the iron curtain. This thesis was developed in 1969 though and gained ground in the 60"s during the vietnam war: us policy in latin america, above all support for pinochet in chile, 1970"s was the peak of revisionism. Stalin agreed to democratic elections in yalta without the slightest intention of implementing them. Demanded from turkey territory and bases to gain control of the turkish straits: us went to the un security council about it in 1946. Poland: stalin imposed a communist government by force. Use the army to take over the country. (gain control of interior and the army.
