PS 430G Lecture 2: January

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 430G
• Professor: Horace Bartilow

Document Summary

So, we establish a few institutions for containment: nato, seato, anzus. This covers western europe, the south east, and the pacific. Clearly the assumptions of containment continued to apply. If we look at conferences between the winners of wwii (stalin, fdr, and churchill) we see that the us and. Uk took the west and the soviet union took the east. So basically the soviet union only really expanded due to this agreement (except for afghanistan but that"s a bit different). The soviet union had the largest conventional army. It just make sense they would, they have the largest land mass and border an absolutely absurd amount of countries. We have no problem toppling democracies that go against our interests. George actually took back what he said in the containment doctrine. The soviet union was authoritarian, not totalitarian, and we work together with many authoritarian regimes (see saudi. The ussr was going to collapse no matter what.