POLS 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Boris Yeltsin, Chinese Century, Arab Spring
13 Mar 2018
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Received the prompt for midterm essay pt. Watched the film the fog of war https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=5lsrrtvpigy. From the end of the cold war to a new global era: Cold war was the outcome of the greatest war fought on earth: ww2. During cold war, u. s. and ussr were in positions of strength! (superpowers) However: these super powers were very intimidated by each other because they did not know what each of them were capable of (one of the causes of the cold war) Differences in social and economic systems (communism vs. capitalism) Insecurities of each other = the build up of the naval arms race. Beginning in europe, the war was soon known as the third world war because: over 25 million people were killed in war from korea to vietnam, latin america to southern africa. Bipolarity= stability and order (bipolarity: two nations in power; ussr and u. s. )
