HIST 388 Lecture : 388 - Week 1 – Lecture 1 - Introduction .docx
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Paper - size 12, sent to the ta"s, 2 pages double-spaced. Origins of the 2ww and the cold war grew simultaneously. 2ww and the cold war are closely related dominant figures at least from 1933 to 1945 were adolf hitler and joseph stalin hitler"s dominant concern was the hatred of. Measured by religion = religion is not something that can be deemed racial in a. Hitler was not stupid knew that the business of race was nonsense; knew it was a question of cultural identity rather than biological, racial identity = said so. Stalin was more ruthless than hitler = ambition was to revolutionise the entire world but he was flexible in the prosecution of his ambition. Germany and russia had a pact since august 1939 promised each other various things. Germany conceded to russia territories, baltic states, danube territories.