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E-mail: c-lipson@uchicago.edu Voice: 773.702.8053 Fax: 773.702.1689
Charles Lipson Professor of Political Science University of Chicago 5828 S. University Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 |
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The wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union broke down soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. World politics for the next half century was defined by the tense—but increasingly stable—opposition between the two nuclear superpowers.
Why was the Cold War fought? What were its
defining moments? Why did it never escalate into a hot, global war, despite
close calls over Berlin and Cuba? How were other countries drawn into
the vortex of superpower conflict? What are the Cold War’s enduring legacies
today?
