- The Cold War was a attempt to answer allthe worlds problems with eachother
- 1971= The Soviet Union and satillite countries were doing poorly from and economic standpoint
- By 1981 life expectancy in Soviet Union was down
- End of 1991, the Soviet Union (a perfect model of communism) ceased to exist
- 1961 Vienna Summit
- Warning: State who's economic progress depended exploiting some of its citizens at the expense of others will not succeed
- Social welfare state
- Overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in early 1917
- Woodrow Wilson brought U.S. into the war in April 1917. Such a world would not be safe for proletariat revolution
- Wilsons Fourteen Points Speech/ January 1918
- A dictatorship of the proletariat would free the proletariat
- Lenin= successful realist
- End of the 1930's USSR= most powerful proletarian state
- Attack on Pearl Harbor shattered the image that distance ensured safety for the U.S.
- To prevent a third world war (according to Roosevelt admin.) is to prevent capitalism from its own self-destructive tendencies through international order
- 3 new international organizations: International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and the United Nations
- 3 BIG speeches:
- #1: Stalin in Moscow on February 9th, 1946/ Restated Marx's claims
- #2: Churchill in Fulton, Missouri on March 5th, 1946/ Russians didn't want to go to war, among other things
- #3: Truman on March 12th, 1947/ Asked Congress to help aid Greece and Turkey and announced the Truman Doctrine
- 2 ways of life: Democracy vs. authoritarianism
- End of 1930 Stalins agents had arrested or killed 63,000 of his adversaries
- 1932 deported over 1.2 million wealthy peasants to remote areas of the U.S.S.R
- Poland, Czecholovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany after 1949 would be independent states
- Conflicting objectives at the end of World War II/ punishing the defeated, cooperating with the Soviet Union, reviving democracy and capitalism, and strengthening the United Nations
- Truman Doctrine, and Marshall Plan
- German Communist Walter Ulbrich- says like Stalin that all problems could be solved through HARD WORK
- Mao another post-Stalin communist leader with ideas on how to salvage the ideology
- Stalin useful to Mao in that he showed how to consolidate a communist revolution
- Cult of personality very important part of Mao's regime
- West and East Berlin complications
- Capitalism was largely reformed
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