UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34210473
Format:
718 Seiten
,
19,8 cm
ISBN:
9780141979915
Content:
s Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely.
Note:
Englisch
Language:
English
Keywords:
Ost-West-Konflikt
;
Weltpolitik
;
Geschichte 1945-1990
Author information:
Westad, Odd Arne
