The massive disorder & economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope & intensity of the Cold War But why did it last so long? & what impact did it have on the United States the Soviet Union Europe & the Third World? Finally how did it affect the broader history of the second half of the twentieth century
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