Ways of the World: Chapter 20 Summary Party II

The Search for Enemies

• Old regime remnants and high rnking party officials
• counterrevolutionary conspiracies
• stalins terror and great purges

Military conflict and the Cold War

• Europe divided by the iron curtain
• "Hot wars" in Korea and Vietnam
• Marxism vs islam in Afghanistan
• Cuba

Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry 

• Fear of nuclear war
• aid and intervention in the 3rd world

The Cold War and the Superpowers

• "imperial" presidency
• "national security states" 
• "military - industrial complex" 
• american economic and cultural power
• soviet military spending and propaganda
• conflicts with the communist world

Paths to the end of Communism 

CHINA: 

• Deng Xiao's post-Mao reforms
• message of Tiananmen Square 1989

SOVIET UNION:

• nationalist movements
• collapse of regimes in Easter Europe 1989
• USSR becomes russia and 14 other states 1991