HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: White Flight, Nuclear Family, Urban Renewal
10 Sep 2017
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Review and agenda: we discussed planning the american century at the end of wwii. Military hyper power: us become a military super power. Un and peacekeeping : providing economic support and taking a big role. Ideological leadership: just war, consumption, discourse of freedom (incl. of markets, from communism: today: rethinking space in the american century. World power, superpower: us loved from world power to superpower . Military dominance: military hyper power, state security is very important. Dominance in the un: un headquarters in nyc, us as one of the p5, un charter signed in sanfran, us will play a major role in un from the start, providing many economic support and dominance/ Dominance in the world economic system influence: the dollar as gold, them usd is major economic monetary system. Marshall plan: containment of communism, occupation of japan 45-52. Punishment, reconstruction: punishment from wwii, pearl harbour etc.
