SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Marshall Plan, Hegemonic Stability Theory, Christian Democracy
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Soci 265 war, states, and social change. Stalin understood exactly what he was doing in these matters 1944: what will take place at the end of ww2 of history as normal, each country will impose its own system. Power and occupying territory = the cold war. It was chaotic because a small number of states, each have its own nationality problem, they had a vacuum problem. 1945 no peace treaty, power dominates in this year. Knowing what the lines are, and not deviating from it: *forget about realism shown through dividing korea and germany. Nato: keep the americans in, russians out, and germans divided. Ex: 1956 time of suez canal moment in hungary when liberalizing set of alternative communists take power and occupies the radio station (we want everything to change, they claim they believed in freedom, they asked for help)
