PEACEST 2BB3 Chapter 4-5: Peacest Reading 4 and 5
2 Apr 2018
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Balance of power: keep people in check. Coalitions are formed after the fact for cs because you don"t know who will be the aggressor. Cs is designed to have no neutral parties. Ethiopian: italy wanting to invade/invading, france + britain not doing much because they wanted italy as an ally against germany. Treaty of versailles (war guilt clause treating germany as main problem/cause for war) Inadequate economic coordination same $ being distributed u. s only had. $, gave to germany to give to france to give to britain to give back to u. s. Japan had no natural resources went to expansionism + trade. America doesn"t have to expand because they have natural resources. Period of intense hostility without actual war. Often aggravated tension between us and ussr during cold war. Surrounded soviet union with us allies and us bases. Promoted a liberal economic and political world order outside of the soviet sphere of influence.
