HIST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iron Curtain, Economic Reconstruction, Red Scare
20 Feb 2018
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Module iii: cold war in europe and america in the late 1940s-early 1950s. This module will discuss the soviet and american efforts to project their desired power internationally (consider missed opportunities to avoid the onset of complete nuclear destruction) and avoid any escalation of cold war tensions. Key cold war figures, policies, and institutions will also be examined as well as the objectives pursued and the methods the soviet union and. Lastly the module examined how deteriorating security affected the domestic politics and culture in both the us and the union. Two dimensions need to be mentioned that are critical for understanding the rise of cold war tensions in the early postwar years. First: reality on the ground, the red army liberated eastern europe from nazi domination, but the soviet presence did not leave once the war was one. It continued to consolidate in eastern europe and the.
