So, by the end of World War Two, all of these countries, including East Germany were under Soviet control. ... After the war ended, tensions grew between the Soviet Union and its former World War Two allies. France, Great Britain, and the U.S. disagreed with the Soviets on topics such as the division of Germany, free elections in Poland, and the reparations paid by Germany. ... This action diminished the revolution and left 25,000 Hungarians dead. ... The Soviets lost control of the Warsaw Pact allies in 1989 to 1990 because the Communist parties were taken over by revolutions in Poland, Hu...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. ... By the end of the year there were nearly 200.000 troops ther...

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Ten days after the end of World War II, Birch, who attained the rank of captain in the United States military, was taken as a prisoner of war by Chinese Communists. ... "he found that this conspiratorial band had participated in the French Revolution of 1789, which infamous uprising, as we know, struck out with intense savagery against God and civilization and resulted in the murder of roughly a million human beings. Clearly, the upheavals and atrocities of 1789 served as a model for revolutions to come, especially the Bolshevik Revolution- (Thorton The New American). ...

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The end of World War II was also the end of a wartime alliance between America and Russia, as Truman and Stalin could not agree of the division of Europe (Divine 666). ... Many western European countries including England, Italy, and France were slowly recovering from the devastation of the war (Divine 670). Years of depression, food scarce, and resentment called for the growing interest in communist voting and expansion, especially in France and Italy (Divine 670). ... There was little down time between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Truman administration's next foreign...

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Efforts to leave the Warsaw Pact by member countries were crushed, for instance in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. ... Instead, the conflict continued from the end of World War II until the break up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. ... Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall, isolating West Berlin (the portion controlled by West Germany and allied with France, England and the United States) from East Germany, which completely surrounded it. ... In 2002, Serbia and Montenegro, came to a new agreement regarding continued cooperation, which, among other change...

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Historically, Huntington describes the transition from "the Peace of Westphalia" (Huntington, 1993) to the French Revolution, quoting R. ... Palmer from 1793 along the way, when he said 'The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun', then quickly moved to how the Russian Revolution and World War I "yielded a conflict of ideologies" (Huntington, 1993). ...

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Just two years before that several thousands miles from Vietnam, on Korean peninsula bloody Korean War ended with July 27, 1953 cease fire agreement between communist North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. ... By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. ... One of the most famous examples would be Che Guevara fighting for communist revolution in Bolivia. ...

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