POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Berlin Blockade, Collective Responsibility, Satellite
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Pol208y1 lecture 8 the cold war. Beginnings: from alliance to adversaries: u. s. v. ussr. Efforts made by allies to remove active members of the former. National socialist party (nazi) from official public office and influential positions in germany. To stabilize germany and make it a model for western democracy after wwii: demilitarization. Reduction of nations army, vehicles and weapons. Usually from a peace treaty that ended a war. Japanese and german militaries were to disassociate from their war history but were kept active and reinforced to help allies face the new soviet threats as the cold war began: democratization. American and british leaders learned you cant have an effective democracy in a world that is crippled. Collective guilt: partition (berlin airlift and wall) The opening of the cold war was the berlin blockade. The soviet union was very interested in a reunified germany at the end of wwii because they believed it would be communist.
