POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Walter Lippmann, Iron Curtain, Baltic States
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Walter lippmann popularized the term cold war (previously was a term from 14th century religious tension in spain) a period of entrenched, ideological opposition between the soviet union and the. Us, during which both sides did everything short of military conlict to destroy each other . Cold war was also an entire way of ordering the political system - it was the anchor of international systems . 1948-1989 are the generally accepted dates for the cold war. August 6, 1945 us drops the irst atomic bomb on japan, drops another three days later. Politics of the cold war was solely focused around stopping more nuclear weapons from being used globally. Yalta (feb, 1945) between us, ussr, and uk and is largely considered the starting date for the cold war (with the fall of the british empire following ww2 and the rise of the. Us yalta became largely between stalin and truman)
