SOC 248 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Nikita Khrushchev, Mutual Assured Destruction, Plutonium
16 Oct 2017
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How states made war and war made states. Caribbean, eastern and southern africa, some of western africa, all of india and. Canada: only great setback=loss of american colonies, eventually colonies ie haiti rebelled and gained independence. From limited war to total war to cold war. Indochina, particularly vietnam: dilemma for western europe was that the winner of any election would be ho. Israeli-palestinian conflict: britain essentially promised the same land to both its arab allies and to european. Jews: war quickly broke out, soviet backed arab so united states backed israeli. In latin america, struggles between elite landowning families and displaced individuals, between military and civilian govts and between different philosophies of development. Cuba in 1961 the cia supported failed invasion of cuba at bay of bigs, seeking to topple fidel. Castro: cold war"s primary focus remained europe, warsaw pact, soviet union, poland, hungary, czechoslovakia, romania, bulgaria, east.
