... guns, 30,000 automatic firearms, 30,000 mortars, 500,000 riles and 30,000 tons of ammunition. The Soviets expected the Republicans to pay for these military supplies in gold. On the outbreak of the war Spain had the world's fourth largest reserves of gold. During the war approximately $500 million, or two-thirds of Spain's gold reserves, were shipped to the Soviet Union ... . This flagrant abuse of Spain's instability and volatile state by some of the world's largest powers could easily have been avoided, had there only ... Beevor). The Spanish Civil War is a good and early example of Br...

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... to the Russians and was not necessary to defeat Japan. While not all agree that the vicious bombings were part of the Cold War, the Cold War mentality is certainly seen in the motivations in the latter part of World War Two. The main cause of the Cold War, however, is found in Carruthers' statement that, "the two superpowers, having emerged from their interwar isolationism, found it impossible ... to agree on the shape of the post-war world."" America and the Soviet Union disagreed on the ... principles and policies that should have been implemented at the time. ... ...

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... 's role in the post-war world It incorporated principles of national greatness and global responsibility."28 John Ruggie summarises the transition between the wars well; "Old world power-political reasoning in support of that mission had held little allure for the American people - protected by two oceans, with friendly and weaker neighbours to the North and South, and pulled into two costly world wars".29 However Ruggie ... exceptionalism as noted by Ian Tyrell. The importance of this in regards to the start of the Cold War was proven by the way in which Truman's administration would ca...

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... of the world at present. Prior to World War II, the US followed a policy of "isolationism", whereby the U.S refused to interfere in world politics. However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, just two years after the war began, as well as the Axis powers declaring war two days after the attack, brought the US into World War II, something that analysts believe sealed the fate of Germany and Italy. But ... it was the economic and ... military polices that the US employed after the war- the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine- that effectively ended the policy of "isolationism". Indeed ...

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