HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Brinkmanship, Nikita Khrushchev, Hungarian Revolution Of 1956
8 Apr 2016
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Occupaion of germany, four zones (us, fr, soviet, english) Nuremburg trials november 20 october 1 1946. United naions general assembly resoluion 96 december 11, 1946. Redefining the west after wwii: the cold war. Great losses desire was real to rebuild as fast as poss anything, even bringing train cars back from germ. Appease west with muli-party elecions make pops more open to a w style of democracy. Elecions in places like poland and czechoslovakia: at least no ctrl over elecions for a few years. Germ batleield for irst encounter in the cold ar change in global rltns b/w e and w. Churchill invited to university of missouri journalists told to expect something bug. Iron curtain speech descending on eu, says this is the reality of our day, soviet not to be trusted. Serves truman wants to formalize american foreign policy over this idea of containment.
