The Earth and Its Peoples - Chapter 32
CHAPTER 32 The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945?1975 SEQ NLI \r 0 \h ?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h CHAPTER OUTLINE I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . The Cold War A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . The United Nations 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . After World War II Western leaders perceived the Soviet Union as the center of a world revolutionary movement, while 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.