HIS344Y1 Lecture 4: Lecture 4.doc
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The impact of american programs to secure the western system: truman document (to reduce communist influence) and the marshall plan (sinister american plot to reduce communist influence and ensure american economic hegemony) Only after these programs are developed does russia stalinize eastern europe to ensure american/western influence does not spread to eastern europe. The first immediate result is decolonization: decolonization is a misnomer because neither the british or french wanted the decolonization of their empires. At no point did they sit down to offer equality to their colonies they were compelled. They tried to hold onto their empires even after there was no chance of retaining them. No good will in france and britain the decolonization of their empires were political consequences of the war. The atlantic charter: consequences; calling the rest of the world to join the allies to fight germany in order to stop imperial empires: with such a call, empires and colonial rule could no longer function.
