HIST 0865 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Truman Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, Percentages Agreement
19 Jan 2018
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Major argument: the cold war is best understood as an ideological battle between the united states and the soviet union with deep roots in both nations history. Both the us and the ussr both believed that they were inheriting european modernity. The american ideological roots of the cold war. After the us reached its continental borders, they looked outward for the spread of democracy and civilization. Opened up internationalization as a catalyst for us ideals. The soviet ideological roots of the cold war. Identity; what does it mean to be russian. Territorial control part of russian identity is large territory. Ideology (communism) serves as justification for the spread of the state. Slowness to open a second from against the nazi s. One would have to fall in order for the other to succeed the inheritance of european modernity. Both of these aims were in each nation s national interest and seemed necessary to remain intact.
