HIS344Y1 Lecture : March 22nd
Document Summary
Everyone saw that capitalism as an alternative ideology came to an end. Third world conflicts and tensions came to an end. Nationalist liberation movements came to an end. Meant a crucial development in international relations, an unprecedented problem. West: looking at the economic assistance, given the economic powers and technological superiority and western type democracy and clearly, a much healthier society, the cold war should have come to an end by the end of wwii. Comparing society of united states to soviet, tremendous differences can be seen. Technological and scientific breakthroughs postponed the end of the cold war. Communist society did not have the basis to do. But it did give another 3 decades to the cold war. Exaggerated fears in united states also contributed to the prolonged cold war. Only capitalism remained, there would never be a similar situation in the world. As it turned out, he was somewhat off the mark.
