ECH 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nuclear Arms Race, Superpower, Arms Control

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

Ww2 led to a major reordering of world politics that left germany and japan under. 1944 analysts began to talk of a new concept in international relations: . Reasons for the cold war: deep incompatibility between the social and economics system of the east and west, mutual fears on both sides intentions, and insecurities generated by an on going nuclear arms race. lack of resources. The cold war contained as much conflict as it generated by organizing the world into two blocs, by keeping germany divided and by maintaining a proverbial superpower headlock on nationalism in europe. It was presumed that the cold war would go on for longer than it did, considering the. Ussr"s scientific capabilities, stretching across 11 time zones with enormous human and natural resources and of course military power. The cold war did not go one due to economic decline, the cost of the cold war itself,