IAFF 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Preventive War, Economic Nationalism, Nuclear Arms Race
26 Mar 2020
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Human consequences: 15 mil soldiers, 26-34 mil civilians. Many killed indirectly due to governmental collapse: starvation, lack of medical care. Empires: europe"s colonial empires no longer sustainable, some colonial powers tried to hold on. New powers: one superpower and one super power to be. Withdraw: return to isolationism and fortress america. Containment: assumes europe and asia are important, assumes ussr has aggressive intentions. Better to attack while us has atomic monopoly. Integration: assumes europe/asia are important, ussr has limited goals. Believes that integration/interdependence would lead ussr to cooperate, perhaps change. Fdr: pushed for integration - inclusive, multilateral order. Rebuild national economics, promote global trade and finance, prevent another global depression. Address the new dangers posed by nuclear weapons. Create a new world order that would work better. To keep the us actively engaged: western allies worried about us isolationism; not us domination. Un an idea before war even began. Structures of an inclusive, global order remained (un)
