POL305 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neoliberalism, Collective Agreement, Member States Of The United Nations
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Pol305 lecture & reading notes: what was the cold war, what comes in your mind? i. ii. iii. iv. General peace: absence of global war, the two superpowers spent an enormous amount of time and money ensuring they don"t end up in a hot war with one another. When soviet union collapsed: the cold war resulted after a breakdown in the war time alliance between the us, britain and ussr in the fight against nazi. Once their common enemy had been i. defeated: the soviet union came into existence after the bolshevik revolution in 1917 but the cold war itself did not begin them. The us and ussr were friends so to i. speak, with lots of tension, however the two-superpower dynamic was not yet a reality: the soviet union was amidst civil wars and the us was slightly isolationist.
