POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuclear Weapon, Rocket Power, Proxy War

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

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Pol128 week 10 thursday, november 26, 2015. The cold war lasted from 1945 1990. The americans and the russians had completely opposite ideas. America believed in capitalism: people can get rich, privately owned property, market effects economy. Russia believed in communism (socialism: economy should be planned scientifically, no private property, profits go to people in the form of social programs, nobody gets rich. War was never fought directly more of a competition rather than military conflict. Proxy war get someone else to fight war for you or get involved in someone else"s war. First to use nuclear weapons on people never before seen. Developed h-bomb after russians created their own nuclear bomb. 100x more powerful later russians also created h-bomb. Recruited nazi scientist after ww2 to help create better weapons. Deterrence how to defend yourself make yourself so powerful that nobody will dare to attack you logic both of these sides had.