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7.4: End of Empires and Cold War

READ: Connecting Decolonization and the Cold War

The Cold War and decolonization were two trends that happened in parallel. Was it just by chance that two enormous global episodes began as the Second World War ended? Or did these two trends contribute to each other? Created by World History Project.
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