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History

Running Head : The Cold War

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After the end of world war two , two superpowers emerged competing for world supremacy . These two countries were the Soviet Union and the United States of America . Sharing power is often a difficult and a challenging concept as these countries viewed one another with mistrust and suspicion . Attempting to gain significant control , either country made every effort to develop a strong center of influence . In response to the expansion of the Soviet Union , the United States developed a

br policy known as containment . The fundamental objective of this policy was to recognize and accept the existing communist nations in the world while denying any further development of communist states . The cold war was particularly intense in the South American region as it experienced a lot of unrest during this period . The doctrine of Communism and Marxism became very popular among these countries to an extent that some of them won elections , as witnessed in the election of Salvador Allenede of Chile in 1970 (Calean , 2007

Immediately after the end of the Second World War , there was an optimistic relationship between the southern American nations which was manifested in the formation of the organization of American nations . The main objective of this organization was to address the security issues in the region . In addition , there was a charter that spelt out the mode of engagement between the different states . One outstanding provision of this charter stated that no nation would intervene in...

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