HIST-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Melting Pot, Matthew C. Perry, Cuban Missile Crisis
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Though population is declining in a natural way, immigration makes up for this a. ii. Led to rise of far right parties (anti-immigrant, ultra nationalistic) Post war: latin america, many countries are moving towards more socialist type stuff, cuban missile crisis 1962 b. i. Closest we ever came to nuclear war b. ii. Us vs. russia: melting pot for socialism c. i. Argentina, brazil, chile, venezuela all try socialism: only in 1980"s an 1990"s do latin american countries start to really embrace free trade (brazil, russia, india, china growing economies) d. i. Still problems with corruption and monopolies: asia a. 1853 (admiral perry came in to tokyo bay) 1945 a. i. 1. a. i. 2. Tried to rebuild themselves through trade and economy building a. i. 2. a. Export oriented economy (export for cheaper prices) a. i. 2. a. i. This model is followed by taiwan and south. Write into constitution that they will only have a small military a. i. 3. a. West germany and japan suddenly built up huge economies in the 60"s a. iii.
