INTST101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Warsaw Pact, Near-Death Experience, Cuban Missile Crisis
17 Dec 2016
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Almost no serious u. s and soviet confrontation (almost no direct combat) Mutual mishoared destruction (mad: mutual destruction. Dangerous new technologies: hydrogen bomb, missile (cruise, land), stealth aircraft. Cold war gradually grew out of tensions between some of the allies in ww2. Cold war, started within three years of ww2. June 1947: marshall plan, to help europe rebuild after ww2. July 1948: berlin crisis, first serious cold war crisis. Nato ; founded in 1949; 12 original members: usa, canada, britain, france, iceland, portugal, netherlands, Belgium, luxembourg, italy, denmark, norway: nato was a way of keeping the u. s in and soviets out, expansion in 1952. The warsaw pact: formed in 1955 as a response to the admission of the federal. Albania ceased participating in 1960, withdrew: nato relied heavily on nuclear weapons in 1968. The u. s. economy: world"s largest economy during the cold war technology, american military technology was better then soviet military.
