One example is World War II, which started in the middle of Europe- -considered then the most civilized part of the world- because of Germany's belief in its national superiority. ... Trade became one of the main incomes of the countries and trade required close interaction between countries and decisions were started to be taken to ease traders by governments. ... From the imperial ages early this century, Europe in particular has seen the decline of the colonial power, the democratization and communization, the rise and fall of totalitarian, nationalistic and socialist regimes, and thei...

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Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. ... It can also be argued, however, that 'expansionism' and self interest were the reasons why the Cold War started. ... Gaddis endorses his hypothesis with some examples from domestic policy such as the continuation of communes even though they proved inefficient, expansion and consolidation of power in Eastern Europe up to 1953 as safegua...

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The Americans had not taken the next logical step out of capitalism towards communism, and the Soviets had started out well, but had corrupted the gifts they had inherited from Lenin. ... In the utopian communes of America, there were always people from very different backgrounds. ...

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" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... For this we may start all the way back at the founding of the nation. ...

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