HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Truman Doctrine, Mao Zedong, Syngman Rhee

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Thomas Boogaart

Document Summary

Consult the rubric before starting and apply the rubric after finishing. We grapple with the struggle between the usa and ussr for global influence by examining the first battlefield of the cold war: The cold war was an unusual struggle - it wasn"t a traditional war. It had intense mobilization of society in order to fight a chartered enemy. During the height of the cold war, people lived in fear and were subject to propaganda which led them to see the russians as a type of monster with evil machinations. Decolonization: after world war ii former colonies sought independence, modernization, control over indigenous resources independence, modernization, control over indigenous resources and a full role inside the international system. Cold war: after the berlin crisis, the usa and ussr emerged as global rivals seeking to expand their influence over the planetary surface. After berlin crisis, berlin was split into two ideological blocks.