POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Berlin Wall, Superpower, World War I
6 Sep 2013
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Polb80 lecture 3 september 25th 2012-09-25. Ussr and us did not fight because of deterrence (mad) If you attack me, i will attack you. Both side needs self-preservation and are rational. If one of them attacks, that one that attacks will get destroyed. Both side has to be neutral vulnerable. 1962 scariest part of cold war. Us made a naval blockade in response. Proxy vs. proxy alley of us and alley of ussr fighting. 1989 wall of berlin is irrelevant. East germany went through western germany side. Soviet union ended its existence 2 years after the cold war started. End of cold war has multiple events. Soviet agreed to the destruction of the berlin wall. Earlier ussr crushed western democracy in eastern europe and they crushed them by telling eastern europe to stay in the soviet block. Opening of the berlin wall makes germany one step away from the soviet block. 1986 molotov became leader of the soviet union.
