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- 2. Main terms: ● principal developments in international politics; ● the withdrawal of European countries from their
- 3. Now we examine some of the principal developments in international politics from 1945 to 1990. The
- 4. ● The end of Empire: the withdrawal of European countries from their empires in Africa and
- 5. The collapse of imperialism in the 20th century was a fundamental change in world politics. Various
- 7. Key points: ● Different European powers had different attitudes to decolonization after 1945: some, such as
- 8. ● The process of decolonization was relatively peaceful in many cases; it led to revolutionary wars
- 9. The issue of when the cold war began, the most historians focus on various events between
- 10. The American military deployment (development) was followed by the political commitment (obligation) enshrined (keep) in the
- 11. While the origins of the cold war were in Europe, events and conflicts in Asia played
- 12. 1953-1969: Conflict, confrontation and compromise. Western Europeans depended on the US for military security and this
- 14. 1979 - 1986: ‘The second cold war’ The resulting period of tension and confrontation between the
- 16. Key points: ● There are disagreement about when the cold war started, why and who was
- 17. Using the bomb towards the global battlefield: The Western allies developed the atomic bomb in the
- 18. The global dimension was increased by the emergence of other nuclear weapon states – Britain in
- 19. Despite the apparent success of the NPT agreement several states are known to have developed nuclear
- 20. Conclusion: ● There remains a debate about the use of the bomb in 1945, and the
- 21. ● States with nuclear weapons have agreed on the desirability of preventing the spread of nuclear
- 22. ● Both the cold war and the age of empire are over, the age of ‘the
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