HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Warsaw Pact, Resource Distribution, Kitchen Debate
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Cold war: european countries as the balance of power. With the fall of the german empire, the subsequent race for power was the cold war that emerged in 1956. According to the observations made by george kennan, the united states" (us) ambassador to moscow and novikov, a soviet union"s ambassador to washington, the. Cold war is primarily a battle of the ideologies between capitalism and communism (kennan and novikov). In relation to this, the european countries were divided into two sides namely pro- By understanding the cold war era, it can be observed that the. European countries played a major role as the balance of power between the two ideologies. As suggested by the name cold war, no war occurred during this period. European countries played active roles in supporting the ideologies that they believed through their implementation of internal and external policies.
