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38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R.
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The relationship between the US and the USSR changed during the Cold War because the two countries transformed from being allies to being fierce rivals.
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During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity.
Postwar Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fueled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as American officials’ bellicose rhetoric, arms buildup and interventionist approach to international relations. In such a hostile atmosphere, no single party was entirely to blame for the Cold War; in fact, some historians believe it was inevitable.
T.S. Eliot’s famous vision:<span> “This is the way the world ends.</span><span> Not with a bang, but a whimper”</span>1<span> seemed to be all wrong on November 9, 1989.</span><span> On that wintry day, the world created by the four decades-old Cold War</span>2<span> between the United States and the Soviet Union exploded with a huge bang:</span><span> the destruction of the massive Berlin Wall, a Communist-built barrier to prevent the people of Eastern Germany from crossing into the free world.</span>
