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2. How did the US react to North Korea’s invasion of South Korea?
The US reacted to the North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950 by taking the crisis to the United Nations Security Council. The US intended to achieve a UN resolution for military intervention...
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1. What were the causes of the Korean Crisis
The causes of the Korean crisis lay had their origin in the growing hostility between the USA and USSR in Europe that you have read about, and also in the specific circumstances within the Korean peninsula....
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7. Who was the more to blame for starting the Cold War: the United States or the USSR?
You have seen that the US and the USSR both played a role in the decisions, assumptions, policies and actions that started the Cold War between 1945 and 1949. However, historians have debated the extent...
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Why were NATO and the Warsaw Pact established?
Both superpowers created military alliance systems following the Berlin Blockade. The US established NATO in 1949 and the Soviet Union set up the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Europe thus became militarily divided...
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6. What were the consequences of the Berlin Blockade?
The post-war German state was viewed by both the US and the USSR as key to control and influence in the region. Its role in the outbreak of the Second World War, the focus of the Grand Alliance's war...
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4. How had the USSR gained control of Eastern Europe by 1948?
As you will have seen in the previous pages, the Soviet Union gained control over Eastern Europe by retaining the Red Army in the region and through the method known as ‘salami tactics’. We will look...
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1. Did conflicting ideology make the development of the Cold War inevitable?
The US and the USSR each believed that its particular ideology was the ‘right’ one for the post-war world. Both states believed its respective system was the most fair and the best for creating a just...
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7. Conclusions: which factors were most important?
On this page, you will get the chance to review the different factors that affected the international situation after 1919 and to decide which were the most important in bringing about the collapse of...
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6. Was the policy of appeasement justified?
As you have seen from the previous pages, Britain and France took very little action against both Hitler and Mussolini during the 1930s. This policy of giving concessions in the hope of preventing...
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4. Why did the League fail in its aim to facilitate global disarmament?
The League was bound to pursue international disarmament through Article 8 of its covenant. The members of the League recognise that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments...