L97 IAS 3680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nuclear Arms Race, Mfc Kremin Kremenchuk, Iron Ore
21 Dec 2020
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Lecture 10 - vietnam: nixon"s war, china and the ussr, 1969-1973. 1965 was the most important year because that is when the us began their air campaign against north vietnam and in south vietnam. Kremin had cared little about vietnam and indochina. Once the communist revolution succeeded, stalin gave mao permission to continue promoting communism throughout indochina. Unlike kruschev, stalin had not been interested in third world liberation movements. Kruschev"s policy toward vietnam was derivative of his policy toward. Kruschev had much to lose in vietnam. He counseled ho and the viet minh (communists in north. Vietnam) to abide by the agreements to not invade south vietnam. Vietnam took on new importance for the kremlin. The us intervention forced the ussr to change their policy toward hanoi and the region overall. It was now understood that the ideological call of fraternal duty popular in communist documents must prevail. It looked to the soviets like the us was trying to rollback.
