AG 105 Lecture Notes - Korean War, Paul Nitze, Nikita Khrushchev
9 Aug 2020
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Cold war: two ways of looking at the world. Learning goals: what are the views of the us on the ussr & how did it effect the foreign policy making. What are the paradigms prevalent in the cold war: how did they effect each other, how did they effect the us, how did they effect the ussr. Political ideology of the us: political ideology of the ussr. Origins of the cold war: absence of common enemy, failure to coherent view of europe in the yalta and potsdam conferences, different ideologies. Competitive coexistence (1953-65: realized struggle will last and nuke war is suicidal, ussr becomes more stable and powerful, therefore takes more international influence, 1955- germany joins nato, 1955 warsaw pact, 1962 cuban missile crisis. D tente (1965-76: equal in power, 1975 helsinki accords, us clearly more dominating economically. Late cold war (1976-85: 1979 afghanistan war.
