HIS377H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Monroe Doctrine, Mobutu Sese Seko, Mohammad Mosaddegh
8 Sep 2013
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His 377 20th century american foreign relations. Waging peace eisenhower confronts the cold war: recap, expansion (empire, power, order, uniqueness, cold war themes, us-soviet tensions, nuclear world, renewed geopolitics, rise of the third world. Us cant see the difference between nationalism and communism. Bull that carries around his own china shop fought the wars. The new look sought to reduce conventional forces and to build up a massive nuclear arsenal. 10 point declaration: the spirit of bandung . Led to creation of the non-alignment movement, belgrade, 1961. Us declines as they support independence, but most of their allies have colonial interests and they have their own domestic racial problems to contend with. The us was also very racist at this time and labelled many of the third world countries seeking independence as communist: the cia and covert action: iran, guatemala and congo. Washington and the americans learn that there was some idea that they were involved.
