POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Warsaw Pact, Comecon, Berlin Blockade
19 Sep 2016
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Marshall plan: inject credit into countries to rebuild them quickly. Nato vs. warsaw pact: four dimensions of cold war. Bretton woods v. comecon (common economy: imf, gatt, ibrc(world bank) gold standard and us, comecon state based economics early success. Soviet system more rational: more engineers, sputnic, h-bomb. West higher standard of living: cultural freedoms, man on the moon. Khrushchev: we will bury you he meant that. The eurasian heartland of the ussr, ideal places to spread outwards according to mackinder. This was why the west installed the shah and fought the. The british controlled the rim lands and the ports, it was argued that they could push into the rest of the land. Arms race > mad > us and ussr had a huge arsenal of nukes. Many joined the soviets because they had a disdain for the west. Leaders learned in wwi that democratization does not work when there is not economic stability.
