HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mao Zedong, The Communist Manifesto, Hereditary Monarchy
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Violent re-division of the world during the cold war mainly divided in terms of military alliances/war (rather than economic before world wars) Formed a parallel universe between the 2 world both have similar but different guns, aviation networks, toys, electric guitars, cars, chocolate bars, scrabble, arcade game, nintendo, personal computers. Fighting all over the map in places that were remote and inconsequential: the korean war (1950-1953, afghanistan. The war floods the world with guns because the world has become a large battlefield between the. Us and ussr (even in sierra and eastern europe) Us is economically unparalleled in terms of gdp and living standards compared to everyone else. Us main concern is securing open markets along keynesian lines as established at bretton woods so a war like this never happens again. Tali(cid:374)"s (cid:373)ai(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374) is se(cid:272)uri(cid:374)g the (cid:862)(cid:271)loodla(cid:374)ds(cid:863) of ww2 so this (cid:374)e(cid:448)er happe(cid:374)s agai(cid:374) so that. Germany can never get a hold of it.