HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cuban Missile Crisis, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
Notes 4-18-18
● Decolonization and the Cold War
■ First World
● Democracy-U.S.
○ NATO-Created by Truman Doctrine
■ Successor to Western Alliance from WW2
■ World Bank and IMF are economic counterparts
● To rebuild and sure up the colonies in
Europe
■ Political counterpart is the European Union
● 9/11 is the only time the collective defense
of NATO is used
○ Marshall Plan
■ Pouring millions of dollars into rebuilding European
countries in the west
■ Second World
● Communism-Russia
○ Creation of Communist countries in post-war Europe
■ USSR brings industrialization
■ Pour money into Eastern Europe
■ Third World
● Underdeveloped countries
○ India, Ghana, Albania, Egypt, etc.
■ Mix of democracy and communism
● “Non-alligned”
● Don’t want to take part in cold war
○ Cold War
■ Development by which Europe is no longer the center of things
● Europe divided between two non-european powers
■ Europe Begins losing its colonies after WW2 very fast
■ Various Nuclear Standoffs
■ Mao Zhe Dong comes to power in Japan
● EX: Cuban Missile Crisis
○ World War 2 in Africa
■ Soldiers who fight for the Vische french
■ Soldiers who fight for Italy
■ Japan tried to turn Africans against U.S. war effort
● Used leaflets dropped from planes
○ Propaganda
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