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Article: Cold War Termination
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Cold War Termination
Thomas R. Maddux
Most historians and foreign policy analysts in 1981 did not anticipate that within a decade the Cold War would be over and that it would end with relatively little violence and the end of the Soviet Union. Instead,
they expected, like this author, to keep teaching their courses on the Cold War with new sections such as "Renewed Containment," "D
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tente II," and "Cold War IV." The widespread failure to remember the fundamental historical principle that change is continuous no matter how rigid and intractable problems appear to contemporaries led most historians to view the Cold War as an evolving but never-ending reality of international ...
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