To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... At the end of the Second World War, whole countries were left in disarray and destruction. ... Yet another irony both super powers did not want another war to start but they were plunging themselves into another war the Cold War. ... A more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. ....

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... And the beginning of the clash of interests of the USSR and the USA in various parts of the globe, making the prospects of cooperation ghostly superpowers and actually marked the beginning of an era of confrontation. ... During World War II for the US economy were truly "golden": with the beginning of military operations from Europe to America poured a huge flow of capital greatly stimulated its economic growth. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of ...

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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. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China-North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union-China-North Korea. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan...

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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. ... Meanwhile, members of Stalin's loyal, personally appointed Politburo were beginning to wonder if their le...

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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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