the world changed when the Cold War ended. A truce between the nuclear threats of two superpowers the USA and the Soviet Union was created as soon as the Berlin Wall fell also preventing both superpowers from dominating the world. Europe was no longer divided into two groups with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany. The possibility that Europe could become independent of any superpower is a legacy from the fall of the Berlin Wall. There is now a possibility that there
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2 the united states emerged in many ways. They became one of two superpowers. For the United states to be a superpower‚ they need to have an overpowering economy‚ a strong military‚ extensive international political power. The United States had both a monopoly on atomic weapons and expanded production capacity after the war. The aftermath of World War II was the beginning of an era defined by the rise of one of the two superpowers. The super was known as powerful to other countries. It was a high
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through approaching the investigation from two prominent aspects relating to the rise of Cold War tensions. The first being how ideological differences created tension and suspicion between the two superpowers of the Soviet Union and America. Then the second being how the different interests of the two superpowers created tension between them and caused them to perceive each other as threats. This evaluation will reach a conclusion as to whether tension which led to the Cold War stemmed from ideological
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performer internationally as a peacekeeping force‚ and the international requests kept flowing in. Peacekeeping became a source of national pride. It was also in Canada’s interest to support these missions to prevent escalation and involvement by the superpowers. There were some critics of Canada’s involvement in peacekeeping and of the value of peacekeeping in general. It was noted that peacekeeping did absolutely nothing to resolve issues. It may have been preventing escalation‚ but it was doing
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considered to be a significant event in Modern World History. The Cold War dominated a rather long time period: between 1945‚ or the end of the World War II‚ and 1990‚ the collapse of the USSR. This period involved the relationships between two superpowers: the United States and the USSR. The Cold War began in Eastern Europe and Germany‚ according to the researchers of the Institute of Contemporary British History (Warner 15). Researchers state that “the USSR and the United States of America held
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secure domestic lands from external attacks highlighted the inability of League of Nations to sustain peace and stability in the international environment. It was created after World War I‚ in which the power was concentrated in the hands of two superpowers then; Germany and France. This concentration of power led to several other problems and made the War an inevitable occurrence. Consequently‚ after World War II‚ the United Nations was formed‚ which focused on equal distribution of power‚ by having
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summation of the events which caused the Vietnam War‚ and therefore it is a valuable source. The article discusses some of the reasoning for both of the superpowers’ intervention in the Vietnam War‚ such as America’s need to contain the spread of communism and to prevent the ‘Domino Effect’ from occurring in Asia. Similarly‚ a reason for both superpowers’ involvement in the war was to compete for influence in developing countries‚ in this case Vietnam. Therefore the USSR supplied Ho Chi Minh with military
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Plan‚ as well as his direction over the US involvement in the Korean War. However issues such as Britain and Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech‚ as well as the birth of McCarthyism in America‚ can also be seen as hindering relations between the two superpowers of the Cold War and therefore playing a role in it’s development. Whether Stalin was to blame for the Cold War can also be judged and evaluated through the use of sources‚ offering a number of interpretations‚ from extreme Orthodox and Revisionist
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viewpoint of North Korea starting the war can be seen as Kim ill sung had the intention of reuniting Korea under communism‚ however there was hostility within South Korea as Syngman Rhee also aimed to reunite Korea under his nationalist views. The two superpowers of the time can be seen as responsible for the outbreak of war because the Korean War can be viewed as a product of the cold war as the USSR backed the north and the USA helped fight with the south. The view of war breaking out as a result internal
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ended and another one erupted 2 years later‚ the Cold War. A war with no immediate military action between the two major superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union. It began in 1947 with tensions of political and economic structure within the nations. The United States was a capitalist and democratic nation while the Soviet Union was a communist nation. Both superpowers had goals to expand their rule and compete in various ways. The United States controls most of Western Europe while the
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