POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Berlin Blockade, Cuban Missile Crisis, Yalta Conference
24 Mar 2016
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4 decades of destroying each other as much as possible w/o direct conlict (bombings, missiles) Aug 6, 1945 bombing hiroshima & nagasaki. Why did it happen: yalta conference great powers agreed mostly on what would happen ater wwii for mutual peace. Punishment of war criminals: potsdam conference agreed mostly. Orthodox inevitable european defense against soviet"s threat of expansion. Revisionists american gov"t driven by constant need for economic markets: soviet always had sense of authoritarianism & hosility, for expansion & protecion, 1944. %"s agreement: what countries would be under who"s power by what % Stalin had no intenion of following yalta agreement. Iran & turkey soviets took over, unil us took it to security council: germany said soviets broke all yalta promises. Western germany became front line of the cold war: famous speeches. Sept 6, 1946 secretary of state james bryn.
