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7.4: End of Empires and Cold War

READ: Devastation of Old Markets

World War II broke the world. As the United States and Soviet Union tried to put it back together, they clashed in the Cold War. While many economies recovered and grew, the Cold War also produced a global system of inequality between rich and poor nations. Created by World History Project.
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