HIST 1130 Quiz: 1940s - Modern Hist

• School: Langara College
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1130
• Professor: Marjory Lang

Document Summary

2 superpowers us and uusr dominate bck and frth till 190/1991. Cold war develops due to the ignorance of ideology and culture of us and ussr of one another and their reaction to eachother, especially under stalin. Without any any direct confrontation, rather indirectly ofcourse cuban missile crisis almost led to a nuclear war. Western eu stabilized and unifies and is able to impose us and ussr. Eastern europe suffers which weakens the ussr structure. Vietnam war was due to us"s fear of red china. , leading to open hostility between. China comes out as the asian major power: roots of arab isreali struggle, lebanon and syria, the gulf region militant form of islam , iran iraq war. Gr vs eu + us continues in ww2. In the interwar period the opposing sides changed due to the change of ideology. We the people" as a new ideology in eastern and central eu.