CAS HI 176 Lecture 9: HI 176: The Cold War
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He based his approach on marxism; the workers will have maximum opportunity to control the working and living conditions. His approach was similar to that of japan"s. Push for industrialization to produce military capability. Eliminate large sectors of farming and push people toward industrialization. By the 1980s, people in the soviet union were becoming more and more dissatisfied with the economic and political conditions in the country. Status quo and the brezhnev doctrine (1964-1982) All of the nationalities had to give their nationalities up and embrace sovietization. There were many nationalities, and many did not give them up, despite years and years of propaganda. He organized a whole bunch of purges and executions. Caused fear, not loyalty, of the government. This is really what kept the country together: fear of getting killed. Many people believed that churchill created this term, but he did not. Churchill gave his iron curtain speech in 1946.