POL 607 Lecture Notes - Cuban Missile Crisis, Proxy War, Mutual Assured Destruction

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 607
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Multiplicity means that power was dispersed amongst many countries. By world war 2 everyone failed to stand up to the rise of germany so hitler. In the first world war 1 this changed and germany had the upper hand. 1945 1990 there was a bi-polar system. Bi-polar system was a stand off between the americans and russians cold war. These two countries were fighting a war based on a serious difference in philosophical principles (capitalism vs. communism) Us free markets russia planned economy were among many differences. 1941-1945 the americans and russians were allies to band against germany. Many americans believed that they won the second world ware but it was truly the russians in any case they fought together. There was a conference in 1944 winston churchill (uk), stalin (russia) and. The purpose of the conference was to decide what will happen to europe after the war. When the red army occupied/liberated countries from nazis they brought.