ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, Mao Zedong, Economy Of The Soviet Union

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

1946: winston churchill warns the world that tyranny is arising in. Insecurity in the soviet union because nobody liked them. Austria was occupied by the allies from 1945 to 1955. Britain announces they cannot afford to support another war (no more money for the us) The british empire was starting to collapse because their colonies were starting to gain their independence. Truman doctrine: the us should support countries being threatened by soviet forces. The communist saw this as a declaration of war. The europeans turned to communism as a response to hunger. The soviets overthrew the democratic government of. As the response, the us launched the marshal plan in europe. Marshal plan: massive economic assistance to europeans. Berlin crisis (1948): the soviets started the berlin blockade as a response to the marshall plan, and the newly introduced deutsch. The o(cid:448)iets la(cid:271)eled this as a (cid:862)e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) i(cid:373)perialis(cid:373)(cid:863) Berlin blockade (1948 1949): first major international crisis of the.