POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Glasnost, Warsaw Pact, Nikita Khrushchev
26 Jan 2017
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Beginnings: from alliance to adversaries: u. s. v. ussr. Germany and the 3 d"s (denazification, demilitarization, democratization) > collective guilt. The reconstruction of eastern europe was much slower. Problems to west was how to keep communist parties within the eastern. Increase the standard of living in europe as rapidly as possible. The 4 overlapping dimensions of the cold war: Bretton woods system (imf, ibrc, gatt, u. s. gold standard) v. The international bank for reconstruction was to initiate the. It"s initial purpose was to reconstruct europe as rapidly as possible. Later on, it has purpose to hep the world. On the soviet union side, the establishment of comecon by using state economic plans who advance their economic capacity. Despite it failure politically, it"s economic was successful. They developed enough capacity to defeat the nazi war machine. A rapid transformation to a technology house in the 1930s and 1940s.
