1. Containment in the Modern World
... the Soviets causing their government to collapse. The United States then emerged as the world's only superpower and began facing down entirely different threats. These new threats were posed by rouge nations. During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union had armed such nations in order to gain influence and control over them. This would strengthen their ... hand against one another. Now without a world divided into two large camps, these rouge nations were eager to slip out from the shadows of the superpowers. This presented obvious problems for the world's last super...
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- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: High School