HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Yalta Conference, Appeasement, Totalitarianism
13 Dec 2017
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Us managed to feed everyone and create equal housing. Looking the other way when imperial tendencies were not responded to by powers. Americans deemed themselves responsible for world order. Presidents with different political parties, but have same idea. Soviet union is fairly new nations that emerged in 1917, during. Standard of living in the soviet union after ww2 was not horrible anything (communism) americans. Everyone had a place to live, however no one owned. Average soviet citizen was doing a little better than. Flag: hammer and sickle (hammer to build railroads, sickle to cut wheat) Only one political party, illegal to be a part of another one. Communist party, and there were no elections. Totalitarianism: used to describe aggressive, ideologically driven states that seek to subdue all of civil society to their control thus leaving no room for individual rights or alternative values. Concentrated state power in the soviet union. Did not allow freedom of speech or dissent.
