AMH 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mutual Assured Destruction, Total War, Marshall Plan

• School: SCFMS, SCF
• Department: American History
• Course: AMH 1010
• Professor: Thomas Honsa

Document Summary

Cold war - united states vs the ussr (soviet union/russia) Allies in central/south american, australia, and western europe. Russia allies w/ china and countries they took over. Started in 1945 and ended in 1991. Touched everything and changed the way things worked, even in usa. Democratic capitalism (no floor or ceiling, american dream idea) Secular evangelism - promotion of beliefs in economics, politics, etc. The world would be better if they were ____. (communism or d. capitalism) Decolonization - after the loss in wwii, the world realized colonies was stupid. Like how the natives were saying, i dunno, the whole time. Used to be 80 independent countries in the world, now 200+ The u. s. and ussr fight over these new countries. Casualties - conservative estimate of 15 million; most in asia, africa, and latin america. Proxy wars - each power"s allies would attack the other"s allies in those countries.