From b23e374320045cee87c81d5e3b091ca68134d10d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Isaac Shoebottom Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:43:06 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] 2024-09-16 13:43:06 --- .obsidian/workspace.json | 10 +++++----- UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md | 16 +++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/.obsidian/workspace.json b/.obsidian/workspace.json index e3c98fb..3a409ff 100644 --- a/.obsidian/workspace.json +++ b/.obsidian/workspace.json @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ "state": { "type": "markdown", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", "mode": "source", "source": false } @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ "state": { "type": "backlink", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", "collapseAll": false, "extraContext": false, "sortOrder": "alphabetical", @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ "state": { "type": "outgoing-link", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md", "linksCollapsed": false, "unlinkedCollapsed": true } @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ "state": { "type": "outline", "state": { - "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md" + "file": "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md" } } } @@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ }, "active": "3e47767dcfdfb364", "lastOpenFiles": [ - "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/Race predictions group project.md", "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/In class notes.md", + "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1451/Race predictions group project.md", "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/CS3113/In class notes.md", "UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/MAAC3113/In class notes.md", "README.md", diff --git a/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md b/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md index 22a8a42..587da67 100644 --- a/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md +++ b/UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md @@ -124,8 +124,22 @@ Their goals: - Soviets go on to mobilize criticism of Marshall Plan, create "Cominform" and tighten grip of Eastern Europe ## Key Points - Stalin's foreign policy - complex, driven by desire for security but also to enhance Soviet influence. -- Willing to work with wartime allances but within limits - by 1947 those limits are breached. Historians debate if he was actually truthful about this willingness +- Willing to work with wartime alliances but within limits - by 1947 those limits are breached. Historians debate if he was actually truthful about this willingness - Role of shifting perceptions (in USSR and USA) - Significance of ideology in shaping perceptions - Significance of advisors, role of other states +# Global Competition +- Cold War - an increasingly global confrontation +- Europe divided into "blocs" by the "Iron Curtain" +- Communists take power in China, war in Korea +- Nikita Khrushchev - Seeks to enhance soviet unions international influence, compete with USA - period of tensions and crises +## Stalin, Europe and Asia +### Europe Divided +- After rejecting the Marshall plan, soviet control in eastern Europe tightens further +- Germany divided: Western zones combined into west Germany, soviet zone become eastern Germany (1949). Berlin a divided city, tension point +- NATO established 1949, Warsaw Pact 1955 +### Communism in China +- Long complex power struggle between Chinese Communist (CCP), led by Mao Zedong, and Chinese Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek +- Civil War (1946-49): Communists win control of the mainland, establish Peoples' Republic (PRC) in 1949 +- Mao and Stalin sign treaty of alliance in 1950, but China is "junior partner" in Soviet opinion; the two countries eventually become rivals \ No newline at end of file