HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Wilsonianism, Open Europe, Totalitarianism
6 Dec 2020
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Onset of the cold war: across asia, people yearned for peace and stability, post-holocaust, period of protracted confrontation between the western world and the soviets lasted from the 40s to the 80s. Fund (imf: aimed at a) creating a new financial system based on fixed exchange rates to facilitate world capital flows; b) to supply capital to reconstruct war-torn places. The united nations, 1945: organization of nations to maintain world peace, established in 1945 and headquartered in new york, continuation of the league of nations. Improved upon wilson who had instead failed to convince congress to accept the. Territorial expansion of nazi germany: roosevelt hopes to continue wilsons ideas (international cooperation, etc, ussr after german attack, at tremendous cost, pushed the germans back through. Yalta, february 1945: meeting of the big three allied leaders to discuss how to divide control of post-war. Ussr: soviets didn"t just want a buffer zone, they had expansionist ideas, attempting to extend their influence.
