1. The Cold War and
Decolonization
1945–1975

2. The Cold War

3. After World War II…
 Western leaders perceived the Soviet
Union as the center of a world
revolutionary movement.
 Soviet leaders felt themselves surrounded
by the western countries and their North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (founded
1949).
 The United Nations provided a venue for
face-to-face debate between the two sides
in the Cold War.