HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Willy Brandt, Cuban Missile Crisis, Yalta Conference
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Starts with 1948 airlit which he sees as the soviet union"s atempt to expand westwards rather than as soviet reacion to the americans and briish changing their mind re: germany. That it is a struggle between communism and democracy. On the challenge of seeing the west as equal to democracy. Review, expectaion at yalta conference (february 1945) was: that germany would be reduced to a pasture, the united states would go home. Soviet assumpions about how these zones would all be administered in 1945, and why that matered. What had changed by 1955, and why that matered to the soviets. Suddenly, berlin airlit seen in a diferent light than j does. Chinese civil war and communist revoluion (1949) deemed to be moscow-backed by. Emboldened, greek communists move on civil war in greece from 1946-49. The west assumes that the soviets are behind it as well. At each such step, stalin ruthlessly suppresses opposiion in eastern europe.
