AMH 2020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Truman Doctrine, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Us history amh 2020 final exam study guide (chapters 25, 26, 27, 28) Cold war era: the cold war is a power struggle between 2 or more nations (us and the. Soviet union), in which a direct confrontation is avoided, but an indirect struggle, confrontation or agitation takes place. They had different views on basic rights such as human rights, individual liberties, democratic elections, and religious freedom. The power vacuum: sucked the soviet union and united states into an unrelenting war of words fed by clashing strategic interests and political ideologies: united states strengths: Wealth and atomic bombs (nuclear weapons: ussr strengths: Location and man power (occupation: united states objectives (goals), economic capitalism, democratic values of self-determination, ussr objectives (goals), spheres of influence (europe and asia, spread communism. Do not allow one country in se asia to fall to communism, if not they will end up under communist rule. Adapt a policy between military assistance and diplomatic resolutions.
