CICS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subsistence Agriculture, Economic Mobility, Economic Nationalism
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Truman doctrine - states that the us would support greece and. Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling under soviet interest. Historians sometimes consider it to be the start of the cold war underpinned the usa"s policy during the cold war: marshall plan - american initiative to provide aid in europe after the end of world war ii. This was in order to prevent the spread of communism to these decimated countries: our thinking about development has evolved considerably over time. What are four theories or approaches to development and their main assumptions: modernization theory: societies move more or less inevitably through five distinct stages. Traditional countries can be brought to development in the same way that developed countries have. Attempts to identify the social variables which contribute to social progress and development of countries. Stresses the process of change but also the response to that change.