The Cold War

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This paper explains that a specific movement in geopolitics of the Cold War begins after the 1945 Conference at Yalta where the Soviets and the Americans drew up specific agreements, which were designed to direct international affairs. It matters little what the accords were because Stalin immediately began violating the agreement. The author points out the idea behind the policy of detente was that rival blocs would increase diplomatic, commercial, and cultural contacts in an attempt to reduce tensions; however, the end of each detente period was marked by a specific and flagrant inequality that invariably led to additional hostilities, such as the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Communists and the erection of the Berlin Wall. The paper states that the eventual fall of communism was assumed to be caused by decades of geopolitical pressures by the Western powers, but the fall of Communism had as much to do with the nature of the ideology and its inevitable rejection by individuals seeking freedom.

Table of Contents
Cold War Periods
Detente
An Uneasy Truce
The Soviet Destruction
The Fall of Communism

From the Paper:

"During the decades that the Cold War encompassed, anti-Communist world politicians were viewed as belligerent and bellicose and yet, the strength that was so vocally decried by various Soviet sympathizers around the world, eventually led to the destruction of one of the most tyrannical governments in recorded history. American nuclear power incensed Soviet leaders and left-leaning politicians around the world but for differing reasons. Soviet leaders understood that the great power the United States was amassing would be difficult if not impossible to overcome but sympathizers for the communist way of thinking viewed American nuclear power as the ultimate threat to world peace."

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