[AMS 310] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (48 pages long!)

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMS 310
• Professor: Dr.Janet M.Davis

Document Summary

The rise of the national security state (from last class) Summary of last lecture: collision of ideas: governments, economies, ideals, ideologies. Interesting film: enemy at the gates: russians wanted full control over the countries at the border. State-controlled economy: no free trade, collective ownership. Tensions escalate: december 1991: soviet union dissolves, alliances, usa in postwar world, combination of gifts and loans for post war regions, marshal plan, designed to get usa up and russia off their backs, russia response: molotov plan. June 1948: russia cut everything off, no way to get supplies in threat of a new economy, usa response: berlin airlift. Send airplanes loaded with food and supplies: during 320 day; western germany is independent, may 1949: stalin decides to end the blockade and the airlift, new western government is created. Formal organization: usa created own strategy with how it conducts itself during the. Soviets successfully test their atomic bomb: china becomes a communist country.