Static – World History – Spread Of Communism Outside Europe – (11) | Focus – Mains

Notes for World History

COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE & END OF COLD WAR (2)


How were international relations affected?

  • The cold war was over. USSR and its allies were no longer seen by west as the ‘enemy’.
  • Nationalism, which had been suppressed by communism, re-emerged in some of the former states of USSR and elsewhere. For example, in Georgia. Most tragic of all was Yugoslavia, which broke up into five different states.
  • International supervision of nuclear weapons of unstable or irresponsible countries like Iraq, Iran and Libya.
  • Economic problem was faced by all the former communist states due to economic collapse and intense poverty left over from communist command.
  • The re-unification of Germany created suspicion in Poles who feared that a united and powerful Germany might try to take back the former German territory given to Poland after Second World war.
  • The disappearance of communism affected relations between the western allies, the USA, western Europe and Japan. They had been held together by the need to stand against communism, but now differences emerged.

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