ECON 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kwame Nkrumah, Bretton Woods System, Josip Broz Tito
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The east - west divide: the cold war. Integrated world market, characterized by us dominance and imf"s new gold standard international monetary system (the bretton woods system) India became the first independent country that escaped colonialism in post world war 2. The third world developed from decolonization and they were not industrialized so could not keep with european economies. The french argued that algeria wasn"t a colony but was apart of france. Upheavel in algeria (president was asked to step down in algeria) . Indigenous population were not treated like french citizens (film: the battle of algers) was asked to step down was an independence fighter against the french. A group of leaders came together to how they were going to resit the cold war, nehru was the prime minister of india. Achmad sukarno: led the battle against the dutch in indonesia & led indonesia. Marshall tito: was a communist and started a communist government in.
