MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Totalitarianism, House Un-American Activities Committee, Marshall Plan
2 Jun 2018
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Lecture 18 – The Post-War World Order: The Cold War
❖ Introduction: Re-Framing the Struggle over Democracy
• A New World Order: Two Superpowers (Reading: Churchill)
- A iro urtai has deseded aross the otiet.
o Endemic Conflict between the two spheres
o What as the ipat o the struggle oer deora?
• The Cold War as Obstacle to Democratic World Order
o Non-democratic superpower as threat
o Debate over US role:
▪ champion of democracy or
- The U.S. came out on top
▪ sacrificed democratic ideals?
- The U.S. in pursuing its struggle against the Soviet Union,
adopted undemocratic properties itself and therefore
undermined its own power.
o What should be the criteria?:
▪ US vs. USSR: US justified in using undemocratic means to achieve
end of defending democracy against worse enemy
▪ or US vs. model democracy: undemocratic means undermined US
claim to defend democracy
- the eds justif the eas
▪ Debate still unresolved today
❖ Origins of the Cold War (3 elements)
• Two Superpowers
o N“C: poer has ireasigl graitated to these to eters
• Nuclear Weapons on both sides (USSR 1949)
o ade hot ar etee the uthikale
▪ would lead to nuclear annihilation
o Replaced with Cold War:
▪ turn to indirect methods: proxy wars, foreign aid, etc.
o Does’t ea there ere’t hot ars durig the old ar
o Lots of little proxy hot wars related to the Cold War that resulted in
thousands of causalities
• Competing World Missions
o Made real peace impossible
o New kind of world mission in which you bring your style to the rest of the
world.
▪ Competing world missions
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