With the Demise of the Cold War in 1989 the world witnessed the end of an era. The worlds two super powers, The United States and the Soviet Union, finally saw an end to their arms race and America was left standing as the only super power with almost unlimited global sway in terms of political and economic dominance. With no realistic treat to America, new life was brought into the tradition of American unilateralism and …showed first 75 words of 1935 total…

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