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1970s Obstacles to Reducing Cold War Tensions
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on August 17, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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large bureaucracies produced by the Cold War began show signs of                             
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socialist economy models were beginning to show signs of               
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the feeling that both socialist and capitalist governments were become too big,                          entities engaged in a military competition
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the inflation of 1970s
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governments are spending and printing too of           
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common economic belief that if inflation goes up,                          would come down
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even if it                  the currency
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but governments discovered that you can indeed have high                    and high unemployment
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end of the                Woods financial system
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1870s: World Money 1.0
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gold exchange
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1944: World Money 2.0
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the Bretton Woods system
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gold dollar standard
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gold as anchor but print dollars
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trouble maintaining the value of the dollar
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established the International                  Fund (IMF)
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1971: broke this system
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               really took this place
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currencies go into a free            against each other
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1973: first        shock spike in oil prices
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oil producing countries raise price of oil
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1978: another price jump because of                revolution
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how do these problems affect each                  model:
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ISI: Import, Sustitute, Industrialize (e.g.             : trade low, support local)
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any oil you              becomes more expense
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you have few exports so it is hard to                     
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you may even have to pay more subsidies to further protect your industries
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you'll start                  money
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creates endemic and hyper inflation
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EOI: Export Oriented Industrialization
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Japan,            Korea
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depressed their domestic standard of living in order to compete                               
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as economy worsens globally, you are not able to export as much
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United States suffers a defeat in the                War
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1973 troops out, signs treaty
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treaty breaks down
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North Vietnam                  South Vietnam
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it feels like the expansion of American power is in retreat
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it looks in ways that the USSR is getting                  during the 70s but socialisms were having economic troubles
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obstacles to reducing the peaceful coexistence
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1. exposed realities such as Alexandr                         
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exposes Soviet Union's            labor system
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2. each superpower has different forces
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Soviet army much             
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NATO forces more                 
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but this means that if Soviet force overrun Europe, NATO countries have to be the first to use                weapons
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i.e. will the United States sacrifice Chicago to save Hamburg?
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3. Nuclear asymmetry
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Soviets have huge force of heavy         -based missiles
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USA has longer missiles and submarines
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USA feels Soviets would tend to              first
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Soviets fear that USA will build up too much            and offset the balance
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4. ongoing struggles in Third World
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each was seeking unilateral advantage
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Vietnam finds itself at odds with Chinese dominated                 
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Vietnam invades Cambodia putting an end to the genocide being conducted by that communist regime
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Angola being secretly backed by each superpower
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Somalia, Soviets supporting military dictator, sides get help from each superpower
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El Salvador, Guatemala
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5. Afghanistan invasion
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Soviets feared that the Americans would get involved, but this move seen largely as                          aggression
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military balance looked stable on the                but not when you looked deeper

Vocabulary:

adjudicate, v. give a judicial decision ⇒ "The realistic path for the superpowers was to adjudicate the conflicts and disputes among themselves."

People:

######################### (1918-2008)
Russian novelist, historian who helped to raise global awareness of Soviet Union's forced labor camps
  • wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
  • was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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