HIST 1051 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Cuban Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista
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Richard nixon won his place in the senate in 1950, when he was still little known to the american people. After world war ii, anticommunism had renewed strength in which a global geopolitical struggle between the (democratic) u. s. and the (communist) soviet union created the cold war. The cold war began soon after world war ii and ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the soviet union. What conditions and whose interests would determine the balance of power in europe and asia: origins of the cold war. The soviet union and the u. s. had nothing in common except for their interest in defeating the axis powers in wwii. They both sought to take charge in the postwar power vacuum. i. ) In february of 1945, roosevelt, churchill, and stalin met in yalta, which was a resort in ukraine on the black sea. The big three agreed to establish an international body to replace the league of.
