POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mikhail Gorbachev, Marshall Plan, Stanislav Petrov
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Cold war: a period of entrenched ideological opposition between the soviet union and the united states during which both sides did everything but nuclear war against each other. Prevention of a hot war was about avoiding mutual nuclear annihilation. Oder neisse (two rivers in poland) would mark a division of europe (germany loses 11% of it"s territory) Germany would be divided to keep peace. Alsace-lorraine would be given back to france. Orderly and humain transfer (13 million) returned from eastern europe to germany. Germany would be deindustrialized, denazi ed, demilitarized, democratized, decartelized. March 5, 1946: churchill speaks on the power of moscow and rise of communism in. German currency reform (june 20, 1948, arguable start of cold war): creation of. Old currency taken in at 1 to 1 for essential supplies, anything else being 10 to. How did the relationship between the west and the soviet union decline:
