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The Post War and The "Cold War" - Coggle Diagram
The Post War and The "Cold War"
"Cold war"
(1945 -1991)
George Orwell (1945) used this term to refer to development of “two or three monstrous super-states which have weapons that could wiped millions of people in a few seconds.
Cold War was a conflict based around:
Ideologies
Economic dominance
Global influence
Propaganda campaings
Nuclear power
Space race
Economic Growth
AIM: to prop up capitalism and prevent the influence of communism from growing.
USA- Marshall Plan to revive European economies and rebuild industrial centers.
The Rise of Arabs
Iraq and Iran emerged.
EGYPT Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaimed a nationalist republic in Egypt. It took over the Suez Canal.
A movement of identity and revindication achieved the independence and regrouping of several countries of the Islamic majority.
The Arab League was formed for cooperation and defense purposes of the oil exploited by European and North American companies.
China suffered:
MAO: resisted the Japanese invaders and promised to redistribute land to the peasants
1949 "People's Republic of China" was proclaimed and Mao became the president.
Komitang party vs. Communist party: Chiang Kai-shek vs. Mao Zedong.
An Ideological Conflict
The struggle between the USSR and the United States was not only for territories or control of resources. It also had ideological content.
USA
defended capitalism with an open economy.
USSR
advocated a centralized economy and collective ownership, which tended to a fair distribution of resources.
ZIONISM
1947: Israel expanded their territory through war.
Since then there are clashes between:
srael, supported by the USA
Palestine, backed by the Arabs.
Palestinians and the Arab countries rejected that decision.