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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