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cold war - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Comecon (1949)
      - stalin: dollar imperialism
  - - - revisionist: nukes were used to intimidate the soviets
        
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- - - - zero growth in 1980
    - - 1975-89 16% GNP
    - - comecon (1949-91)
  - - - 13% increase in military spending
      - 1985: 30% of the federal budget
  - - - NEM 1968 --> caused overhaul on economy
    - - killed leader + wife
    - - baltic way 200 mil
      - 1990 baltic states declare independence
    - - solidarity 99/100
- - - - sputnik 1 1957
      - explorer 1 1958
    - - CMC (1962)
      - missile gap (1950s) + shooting match (1957)
      - steve philips: khrush boasting nuclear superiority
- - - - ussr
        
        stagnating econ
        
        2% gnp annual growth
        
        arms race
        
        1960: 20% GDP
      - u.s.
        
        vietnam war (1955-75)
        
        2.3% GDP (1968)
        
        great inflation 1965
    - - vietnam war 1955-75
        
        peace with honour
        
        moral legitimacy
      - CMC 1962
      - mike bowker era of confrontation to negotiation
    - - U.S. realpolitik
        
        watergate scandal early 1970s
        
        anti vietnam war sentiment (late 1960s)
      - Sino-Soviet Split
        
        1969 sino soviet border dispute
        
        khrushchev vs mao (soviet revisionist)
        
        clash great leap forward (1958-62)
      - Odd Arne Westad: Nixon used china to serve american interests, and China used it for security from the USSR
  - - - salt i (1969)
      - abm (1972)
      - nuclear non proliferation treaty (1967)
      - froze cold war tensions did not eliminate JLG
    - - ostpolitik (1969)
      - helsinki (1975)
      - brezhnev did not follow human rights (post rev)
    - - outerspace treaty 1967
      - apollo soyuz mission 1975
      - post-revisionists: ap-syz signalled end of the space race
    - - afghanistan invasion 1979
      - spreading into middle east and africa - ethiopia vs somalia
      - fitzgerald: complexities and contradictions became explosive
- - - - shanghai comminique (1972)
        
        recognition of china (?)
        
        robert service: china-u.s. closer = to the ussr this was a sign of weakness
      - helsinki (1975)
    - - apollo-soyuz (1975)
      - ping pong diplomacy (1971)
      - outer space treaty (1967)
      - odd arne westad
    - - salt i (1972)
      - non-prolif (67)
      - abm (1972)
      - JLG: froze CW tensions not eliminate
    - - chinese economic reform (1978)
        
        1978: 1.1 billion trade
        
        1979: 2.3 billion trade
        
        'socialism with chinese characteristics'
  - - - sino soviet treaty 1950 --> mutual alliance, friendship aid
        
        300 million over 5 years with 1 percent interest
      - ideologically aligned
      - aid korean war together
    - - mao hates PC
      - GLF mistakes 30 million people died
      - sino soviet dispute 1969
    - - ideological split
      - actions in Korean War --> support NK, 300,000 troops
      - Sino-Soviet Treaty (1950) --> trade restrictions, china vetoed from joining UN
    - - ping pong diplomacy 1971
      - shanghai communique + Nixon visit beijing 1972
      - chinese economic reform 1978
      - Odd Arne Westad