Since 1910, Korea had been under control of the Japanese government. ... North Korea remained under control of the Soviet Union, while South Korea was given to the United States. ... Although the U.S. had begun to withdraw troops from Korea as early as 1948, they were forced to remain, as communist North Korea threatened to invade South Korea. ... Due to a multitude of reasons, the United States suddenly found themselves on the verge of a war against Communism on Korean soil. ... This internal pressure was a direct result of the intense tensions revolving around cold war era politics. ...

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In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major patterns of strategic geometry and their change over time from Cold War to post Cold War. ... the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. ... Sino-Soviet-North Korean triangle 3. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan triangle. ... However, our emphasis is on the usefulness of the concept for studying the "transition" from Cold War to post Cold War. ...

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The Cold War was a war that literally wasn't your typical war. ... The Cold War was a big arms race that was started after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR or modern day Russia). ... The Cold War was a real complicated war because it was more a fight about ideology, Democracy and Communism. ... Nations like England, France and most of Europe was backing the United States and countries like China, North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam were backing the Soviet Union. ... Many people are happy that the Cold War was just an arms race instead of an actually war b...

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The main antagonisms leading to the Cold War rose almost simultaneously with the birth UN; the very nature of the antagonisms was deeply ideological: one could pragmatically put it as a US vs. ... When the Korean War broke in 1950, the Security Council consisted only of pro-western powers, since the USSR was boycotting the UN as a response to the US' refusal in 1949 to recognize Mao's PRC. ... A latter Anglo-French resolution for an unified command to fight in Korea was passed as a result of a lack of soviet veto. ... The same happened when the Security Council's resolution to w...

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There was little down time between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Truman administration's next foreign problem, the occupation of Korea and the Korean War. ... Rhee's regime was the trigger to kicking off the Korean War. ... Several reasons backed Truman in entering the Korean War. ... The rising tensions of the Cold War could have been yet another factor in the American's involvement in the Korean War. ... The midst of the Korean War, almost all of South Korea was t...

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In the post-Cold War world no power can challenge the US. ... USA and China were hostile up to the 1950's during the Korean War, as they were against each other, where China was with North Korea supporting communism and USA was preserving the integrity of South Korea (see Appendix A, Cowie H.R, (1980), Asia and Australia in World Affairs, Australia, page 100. Map showing who were supporting South Korea and North Korea in the Korean War, in June 1950), where the CCP recognised the importance of relations with their powerful communist neighbour; USSR. ... However, the Vietnam War generated ...

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Cold War, a term used for the period of tense relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, stretching from the late 1940s to the late 1980s when Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR ceased to exist. The two superpowers faced each other as leaders of conflicting political, economic and ideological alliances; became engaged in a nuclear arms race; and fought surrogate wars with each other in various locations in the Third World, from Korean, to Cuba and to Afghanistan. ... Another main reason was that there was a long history of mistrust between the two countries The ...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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The crisis also highlighted the Cold War climate engulfing the globe. ... The Cold war climate of 1956 arguably shaped every aspect of the Suez Crisis. ... Nasser was aware that he was a pawn in a war of far greater proportions and therefore emphasized the Cold War aspect in this imperial, regional crisis. The Cold War context was extremely apparent in the distribution of arms to Egypt in 1955. ... Furthermore it is a prime example of Cold war behaviors and politics in order to gain geographic and cultural alliance, just as it was seen in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. ...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ...

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An overly aggressive Soviet Russia influencing lower European countries even spanning as far as China, Korea, Africa, and even Vietnam which was one of the main reasons for the later Vietnam war. ... After the war, the countryside was battered and broken looking for a reliable government to run them, and economic aid to help the post-war rebuild; which the soviet union was quick to provide as many countries such as Yugoslovakia, Romania, Lithuania, and Bulgaria had already seceded to communistic ideals. ... However, after the financially taxing World War II, Britain was unable to continue such...

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After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Finland. ... The Cold War had begun. ... He gave Kim Il Sung of North Korea the go-ahead to start the Korean War in 1950, and launched a new series of ...

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The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... Perhaps the Soviets and Chinese leaders were simply utilizing Sun Tzu's "all war is based on deception" passage on an immense scale. ... Nyquist (2012) states "China and Russia continue to...

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A number of states have not signed up to this convention Egypt, Libya, North Korea, and Syria for example. ... When India tested a nuclear explosion, Pakistan answered immediately with a test resembling an almost Cold War standoff. ... The U.S. government point of view has been that the new ABM system will be focused on shooting down limited attacks from "rogue- nuclear states, considered to be North Korea, Iran#. ... -USSR nuclear deterrent perspective and would bring back the balance of power seen in the Cold War. The Cold War between the United States and Russia lasted nearly 60 years witho...

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The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. ... The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to de...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... Those at the conference also decided to meet recurrently after the conclusion of the war. ... Conflicts in both Korea and Vietnam have seen both American and British military powers fighting for the common cause of Containment fearing the overall Domino Effect of Communism that wa...

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This bought the fear that another world war, again with Europe its main arena, a distinct possibility. ... The following two weeks the world was holding its breath in anticipation of a full-scale nuclear war. ... The missile crisis was a tremendous shock to the two superpowers, unlike the Korean war of 1950 - 53, the confrontation this time was not between substitutes, but between the Americans and the Soviets themselves, who were both looking at the prospect of having each other's nuclear missiles bearing down on themselves. ... The Cuban paradox led the two superpowers to reach a number...

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NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) The destruction of two Japanese cities namely Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 at the hands of American Atomic bombs unveiled not only the enormous destructive capability of the nuclear devices but also the hazards and the holocausts which were in store for the humanity...

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Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. ... Stalin argued strongly for the continuation of the war and for cooperation with the Provisional Government. ... Stalin had initially argued against the treaty, agreeing with Trotsky that Russia could declare itself withdrawn from the war without having to sign any sort of diplomatic agreement. ... Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number of opponents (including a considerable number of foreign cadres--among ...

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Geopolitical challenges of China nowadays are directly connected with the perspective of becoming a superpower. That is why in order to investigate Chinese status it is necessary to elaborate on Chinese geopolitical environment its conditions and prospects. During centuries geopolitics of China was ...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... His writings on the Cultural Revolution are published amidst Western challenges to the Communist nations, such as Vietnam and North Korea, and the breaking down of ties between them, starting with the Hungarian revolt. ...

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