Foundations of War

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This paper maintains that historical evidence confirms that, just as the First World War laid the foundations for the Second World War, the Second World War laid the foundations for the Cold War. The paper looks at how, in both cases, war failed to resolve the fundamental problems that had led to military conflict in the first place, and initiated a chain of cause and effect that led to renewed conflict. The Second World War has been justifiably defined as a continuation of the First World War after a brief period of fragile peace, and the Cold War can be justifiably defined as a seventy-year war between East and West that was briefly interrupted by a grudging, temporary alliance during the Second World War.

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