Choose two cases from the list below. Compare and contrast their experiences with these processes. Be sure to identify areas of overlap as well as difference.
· Germany
· Japan
· Mexico
· Russia
· United States
You will only need to use lecture notes, the primary source reader, and the Upshur textbook to answer this question. Primarily, you should draw on the resources presented in week 10, 11, and 12. You are strongly discouraged from using outside sources. If you do, however, they must be fully and properly cited. For the course sources, you can use abbreviated citations. At the end of any sentence where you have quoted or referenced one of the texts, use (Upshur, page) or (EWC doc. number) to indicate the source you used.
The paper should be approximately four double-spaced (traditional 12-point font and one-inch margins) long.
READINGS
The Cold War and the New Superpowers
Introduction: In the wake of World War II, the United States, preaching capitalism and democracy, and the Soviet Union, championing a centralized economy and communism, competed for global influence while threatening each other with large nuclear stockpiles.
Readings
Upshur
788-815, 893-902, 909-930Envisioning World Civilizations
14.7 V.I. Lenin, "What is to be Done?"
14.9 Women and Socialism
15.2 Stalin and the Cult of Personality
15.13 Winston Churchill, "The Iron Curtain"
15.14 The Novikov Telegram, September 27, 1946
16.1 Mao Zedong, "On Letting a Hundred Flowers Blossom"
DeTazz
his_102_directions_essay_4.docx
0
