CGS SS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Totalitarianism, American Exceptionalism, Mahatma Gandhi

• School: Boston University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: CGS SS 102
• Professor: Jay Corrin

Document Summary

The end of the cold war and the triumph of the west ss4/14. Atomic bomb, single blink, 60,000 people were incinerated. 1945 the world was transformed, france, italy germany and gb were in shambles. After 1945, world was dominated by us and russia (little diplomacy experience) Ussr&usa were polar oposites in culture, politics and economics. Us is liberal and democratic, ussr was inspired by revolutionary ideas of. Us was not populated by people of similar race&ethinicity. Us identity was mixing bowl, set of ideas of what it is to be american. American exceptionalism: evangelical, preach gospel,state craft and diplomacy. Settlers built community (john winthrop) to show england and example. Build a city on a hill (beacon street). Founding fathers had a mission to create a democratic society for the world to follow. Ae captured in being shining city on the hill, beacon on a hill . Colonial new england was a ground for capitalism.