HIS344Y1 Lecture : The Post Cold War World
Document Summary
The end of the cold war in the third world like angola and cambodia. However the united states not convinced that the cold war over (bush. Administration: although tension reduced in the third world the cold war mentality was still very much alive. In europe, the tension, confrontation and division remained the same. Warsaw pact renewed after gorbachev came to power: shows that gorbachev himself never thought the cold war would end there , and that the division of europe would continue. B. scowcroft: us policy not the catalyst of the collapse of the soviet union. Gorbachev"s perestroika (the restructuring: not clear what gorbachev had intended by the perestroika and if this were his initial plan (or if he just got carried away ) Gorbachev disliked the soviet commitment to eastern europe: therefore he did not feel the same way over eastern europe as the. Third world: clearly expressed by 1988the brezhnev doctrine is out (allowing.