HIS 2366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Eleanor Roosevelt, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Southern Democrats
13 Dec 2015
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Lecture #30 notes lauren poor his 2366 (fall 2015) Stalin: established communism jailed and mass murdered millions of his people, this was evidence for us to get involved, but critics claimed the war was too ideological. Ideological crusade : condemned cold war what exactly are we fighting for, if it"s based on ideology, we"re going to go to war with basically everyone. Imperialism and decolonization: pressure and hope to decolonize, we"re being hypocrites give up your colonies, britain and france, . We still have puerto rico and the philippines: works: truman decolonized philippines, african becomes landscape over which cold war is fought. African so split up and colonized by big european countries. The cold war and the idea of freedom. Freedom was central to mobilizing public opinion: freedom = central narrative, hollywood anticommunist films, cia as patron of the arts spends a lot of money . Idea of american freedom to do whatever we want.
