ommunism, women in politics, and the decline of armed conflict in east asia

Internationally, alliances with the two blocs gradually shifted, with some nations trying to stay out of the Cold War through the Non-Aligned Movement. Europe was divided into a US-led Western Bloc and a USSR-led Eastern Bloc. Western Europe and Asia were rebuilt through the American Marshall Plan, whereas Central and Eastern Europe fell under the Soviet sphere of influence and eventually behind an ' Iron Curtain'. It was instead characterized by espionage, political subversion and proxy wars.

Once allies during World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became competitors on the world stage and engaged in the Cold War, so called because it never resulted in overt, declared total war between the two powers. The war's aftermath was also defined by the rising threat of nuclear warfare, the creation and implementation of the United Nations as an intergovernmental organization, and the decolonization of Asia and Africa by European and east Asian powers, most notably by the United Kingdom, France, and Japan.

Two global superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), rose in the aftermath of World War II.

Ommunism, women in politics, and the decline of armed conflict in east asia