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- - - - potsdam 1945
        
        ideological + econ tensions
      - divided NK and SK
    - - Truman Doctrine 1947
      - salami tactics (1945-49)
      - leslie gelb -- domino theory analogy : if you let crime go unpunished, there will be more crime
    - - immediate: currency dispute
      - long-term: marshall (1948)
        
        william appleman williams
      - stalin: dollar imperialism
    - - got support + permission from stalin and aid from China - 300,000 troops
      - revisionists: STALIN FACILITATOR NOT ORIGINATOR
  - - - post revisionists: germany was vital to us and ussr
    - - NATO (1949)
      - SEATO (1954)
      - WARSAW 1955
    - - sk: miracle on the han river. most rapid growth 60s
      - eg: 3.4 million emigres, brain drain, five yr plan (1951-56) + 1953 uprisings against sovietisation
        
        goldman
      - nk: eliminate markets 1960, growing isolationism
      - wg: miracle on the rhine, 7% annual gdp growth per year, 10% to 1% unemployment from 1950s-60s
    - - japan sanfran 1951
      - u.s. establish military presence in europe
        
        1949: u.s. congress approves military spending
        
        remilitarisation of europe
- - - - gov
      - geographical division
    - - goldman
    - - eg: brain drain, 3.4 million emigres, uprising against sovietization 1953
      - sk
        
        population doubles 1955-2000
      - wg: 10% to 1% from 50s to 60s
      - nk
        
        isolationism, censorship, and famine 53-54
      - human cost (3-4 mil) + division (berlin wall 61)
    - - korae (1950-53) = first proxy war
      - berlin (1949) = first cw crisis
      - post revisionist
  - - - vietnam
        
        8 mil tonnes bombs
        
        agent blue: 688,000 acres of land destroyed
        
        one of the poorest countries in the world 1990
      - cuba
        
        cuba vs u.s.
        
        first agrarian law nationalise sugar plantations (1959) -> economic embargo on sugar (main exports)
        
        cuba <3 ussr
        
        sugar exports = multilateral aid
        
        join comecon 1972
        
        historiography: castro used CMC to get closer to USSR (post rev)
    - - vietnam
        
        13% population die
        
        agent orange 3-4 mil ill 1 mil disabled (understated)
      - cuba
        
        uses USSR aid to improve healthcare, living standarrds, cuban literacy campaign
        
        second agricultural reform 1963 --> leads to low production and 1.6 million emigres (wealthy)
    - - vietnam indochina war ended french occupation 1954
      - castro overthrows batista 1959 --> cuban spirit --> anti-colonialism --> US angry
      - after CMC --> hate USSR for using cuba --> havana declaration 1979
    - - vietnam war (1955-75)
      - cmc (1962)
      - Rowher: wanted to preserve semi- democratic countries in asia
- - - - 1987 ban nuclear missiles, limit soviet strategic aims by 50%