HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Warfare, Deutsche Mark, Casablanca Conference
11 Feb 2014
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Since my birth, communism has been dead and discredited. In the wake of ww2, communism presented a viable way to run the new world. What is objectivity? (who started the cold war?) In order to answer the question we have to go back to the sources. Stalin"s participation against japan/inside un: division of germany into military occupation zones, acc to coordinate german zones, no agreement on reparations, west thought germany was worth less than 20 billion $, disputed poland, its boundaries, its constitution. Eastern europe: declaration of liberated europe: allies: free elections, self-determination, stalin: anti-fascist governments that would be moscow friendly. Potsdam: marriage on the skids (stalemate: land lease (withdrawn 1945, way for us to give all kinds of things to the ussr to help them beat germany, gifts would stop as soon as germany was beat, new cast. A rising chill 1945-1948: arrest of the london poles (1945)
