HRTS 2115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, Justiciability, Nuclear Arms Race

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: University of Iowa Center for Human Rights
• Course: HRTS 2115
• Professor: Jo Butterfield and Amy Weismann

Document Summary

Together, the covenant on political and civil rights, the covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights, and the udhr make up the international bill of rights. Forced to be divided into three tracks. 1949 cold war intensifies and the stakes increased. Soviet detonation of the a-bomb, sparking nuclear arms race. The us now faced an enemy that had nuclear weapons. Communism triumphs in china, creating the people"s republic of china. Fears by western powers that all of asia would fall to communism heightened anxieties and tensions in the region. East germany declared a state (breaks the allies germany occupation agreement) Formally ending any possibility that the different allied occupation zones would be reintegrated into a single german state. Communist east and democratic west until the end of the cold war. Us enters first peacetime military alliance by forming the north atlantic treaty.