num_pages: 280
description: The Second World War shattered and remade the world. Two great powers—the United States and the Soviet Union—warily confronted each other across the smoking ruins of Europe. But the end of war for Europeans prompted a surge of renewed struggle in colonial areas, as nationalist groups sought greater autonomy or independence. The weakened, tottering empires of Britain, France, and the Netherlands—their myths of military and racial superiority destroyed by the wartime line of march—were beset. American policymakers were no longer afforded the luxury of ignoring colonial problems as they began to fashion a new globalism to counter Soviet influence.
language: English
title: Empire and Cold War: The Roots of US–Third World Antagonism, 1945–47
titlecomplete: Empire and Cold War: The Roots of US–Third World Antagonism, 1945–47
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan