HST 101 Lecture Notes - Fidel Castro, Non-Aligned Movement, Rachel Carson
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General assembly more concerned with poverty, racial discrimination, and the struggle against imperialism than with the cold war, and so the western powers increasingly ignored the general assembly. The economy of western europe, heavily damaged during world war ii, recovered in the post-war period with the help of the american marshall plan: western european governments generally increased their role in economic management during this period. World war ii was rapid at first, but in the long run the soviet and eastern european economies were unable to match those of the west in the production of consumer goods, housing, and food. West versus east in europe and korea: the rapid establishment of communist regimes in eastern europe led the united states to perceive the soviet union as a worldwide enemy. Truman doctrine (1947) and to the establishment of nato (1949), to which the soviet.
