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What is the definition of an International System? There have been four International Systems in the 20 th Century, what was the most recent system? What IR system did we just study? 20 th Century Internatio nal Systems?
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What is the definition of an International System? There have been four International Systems in the 20 th Century, what was the most recent system? What.

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Page 1: What is the definition of an International System? There have been four International Systems in the 20 th Century, what was the most recent system? What.

What is the definition of an International System?

There have been four International Systems in the 20th Century, what was the most recent system?

What IR system did we just study?

20th Century International Systems?

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Cold War System- Bi- Polar SystemSoviet Union & the United States were the two main power centers after WWOII & WWI.

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Cold War was the most recent IR System

COMPETITION OF IDEOLOGIES- DEMOCRACY VS. COMMUNISMCAPITALISM VS. COMMUNISM

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Propaganda in America

Duck & cover drills Bomb Shelters

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Both the U.S. and U.S.S.R had enough bombs to destroy the world many times over! What stopped the superpowers from using their weapons…..Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

The Soviet threat was weak, destroying America would not have benefited the Soviets!!!

More of a threat in Europe. Fear against communism in U.S. helps to fund defense budget.

Was the Soviet Union really a threat!

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Living Under Soviet Communism

Advantages Free Healthcare

Jobs for life

Free Education

Housing was provided

Security

Disadvantages Lack of Information

No Religion

Government control of most aspects of life

Purge of dissidents

Ultimate collapse of the economy!

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Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

What events mark the end of the Cold War?

Who where the leaders of the U.S. & the Soviet Union when it ended?

What happen to the countries that were part of the Soviet Union?

When didthe Cold War end?

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If guaranteed a job, nobody is inspired to work, production of faulty goods

Corruption in system

Emphasis on military and defense spending over consumer goods- bread lines and food shortages

Soviet Afghan War- economically drains “satellite nations” country

Supporting “satellite nations” drains economy

Hatred among different nationalities (ethnicities) in empire.

Why did the Soviet Union collapse in 1989?

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Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989

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Mikhail Gorbachev reforms leads to collapse of U.S.S.RGlasnost literally openness- “opening to the press”Perestroika was the policy of restructuring or reforming the economic and political systemThe Soviet economy had been in a period of stagnation for two decades and was in desperate need of reform.

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Commonwealth of Independent States

1990, the (CCCP) Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power.

Over the next several weeks, the 15 republics of the USSR held their first competitive elections.

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Common wealth of Independent StatesCIS

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It is now the 21st Century. What is the next International System?Bi- Polar, Multipolar, Unipolar?????

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What is the next IR System?Unipolar, Bi- Polar, Multipolar, Stratified, Globalization

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Bi- Polar China & the U.S.?U.S. & Russia?

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MultipolarChina, India, Russia, European Union, Brazil, United States…. Will these powers work together in a multipolar world ?BRIC Countries- Brazil, Russia, India and China

Potential Super Powers!

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Rise of RussiaWIL THE U.S. AND RUSSIA ENTER INTO ANOTHER COLD WAR OR FIND SOME WAY TO COEXIST? WHAT IS RUSSIA LIKE TODAY/

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Rise of Asia/ ChinaWill the U.S. and China work peacefully together as two superpowers?Or will the two superpowers come into conflict?