HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Vietnam War, Ngo Dinh Diem, Korean Nationalism
26 Dec 2015
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Client state: states that received military and financial backing from the superpowers during the cold war. Willingly followed the political or economic state of the superpower. Non-aligned state: states that remained neutral during the cold war. Usually due to not being able to benefit with alliance. Cold war means not an active direct military fighting, the opposite of a hot war where there is fighting. Does not mean there was not a hot war. The korean, vietnam, and the soviet-afghan war were the most well known hot war. Both korea and vietnam during the cold war era were both divided into northern and southern halves. In both, the northern half became a client state to the soviet union. Policy of containment: argument that the soviet union was by nature an expansion power that was seeking to take over the entire world. Radical shift from wwii and the cold war towards the soviets.
