Compare And Contrast Cold War And Russia

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After World War II America Great Britain and Russia all basically split up the territories that Nazi Germany once controlled. The conflict was caused by Russia continued view of communism and there spread of it in the new territories that they took control of after World War II
A proxy war that happened during the cold war was the Vietnam War with each side. The US and Russia supporting the opposites view The North Vietnamese were communist and the South Vietnamese were democratic. In the worldwide clash between American capitalism and Soviet communism. They used proxy wars like this to further their cause and further the tension between the two nations.
Realists believe that the international system is in a state of anarchy, not chaos, but

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