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A 3 page examination of the contention that during the strong bipolarity which resulted between the U.S. and the USSR during the Cold War, Europeans essentially stood passively by while the major players determined Europe’s fate. Berlin itself became a pawn in this game. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The Cold War has traditional been viewed as a bipolar conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Indeed, the European role in the Cold War could
be perceived as largely inconsequential. Even their role in NATO, in fact, is largely directed and funded by the U.S. While NATO gave the European nations a collective
stake in the outcome of the cold war, NATO was jointly funded and directed by not only the U.S. but yet another non-European player, Canada. Not only was NATO
a puppet of the U.S. but European participation in it placed them squarely on the side of the U.S. politically. The fact that it is the U.S. spearheading such
efforts is especially apparent for the U.N., the political entity which although comprised of both European and U.S. forces alike, is essentially a pawn of the U.S. This topheaviness,
a topheaviness represented by the U.S. serving at the leader in terms of European interests rather than the European countries themselves is a situation which dates back to the end
of World War II. Just a casual look at the German city of Berlin will testify to the fact that the U.S. has largely led while European representatives followed
passively. By the fall of 1944 during World War II, Allied soldiers had advanced to the Rhine River and were about to cross.
The Russian soldiers were crossing the Oder River and commencing to attack Berlin (Rauch, 1957). President Roosevelt realized that the situation since the Teheran Conference had changed and
that there were still some unanswered questions remaining from Teheran (Rauch, 1957). The end of the war with Germany was in sight and it was time to discuss peace
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