POSC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hitech, Democracy Promotion, Anti-Communism
30 Mar 2017
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Political violence and global war 1946 present. The cold war was an intense, prolonged political confrontation between countries that did not involve direct armed conflict between the main rivals (us and soviet. The end of wwii saw the rise of the two superpowers, the usa and ussr (bi- Polar world order: the two superpowers sought to challenging each other, contain each other, and control other state to follow them. The two super-power presented different versions of the world they offered different ideological viewpoints. It was effective in winning votes and gaining political prestige. It was effective in pushing against the lingering forces of isolationism that, if only partly, limited the global position of the us state. It was effective as a tool to raise taxes and funds from a citizen base historically opposed to taxes: ussr emerged from the war both drained and exhausted and in a position of international power .
