POL114H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nato, Nuclear Arms Race, Proxy War
Document Summary
Cold war was fought through diplomacy, ideological rhetoric, arms races, regional proxy wars and interventions, and the completion for allies and military bases. A high level of animosity existing between the east and west. Between the democratic liberal capitalism (first world) vs. the communist command economy (second world). Professed to their ideology and their allies were support with their political systems: geo-political and alliance and informal rules/understandings: superpowers established formal and informal understandings and agreements and often that guided relations between them. Ex) cuba was a proxy for the soviet. International issue of decolonization, which led to the interests in protection and promotion of human rights. Competition of which political economic and social system would build a better economy. War between the western and communist to over throw the system. Foreign policy of soviet union was seen as a defense of preserving and protecting. Ronald reagan gained presidency and blamed soviet union for route of all evil.
