They also wanted India to have its own government, in which men like them would become MPs. The Indian National Congress first set out these ideas in 1885. ... Also, India was so valuable to Britain that they were reluctant to lose too much control. By the end of the First World War in 1918 British rule was still secure.
The Cold War shaped American foreign policy and political ideology, impacted the domestic economy and the presidency, and affected the personal lives of Americans creating a climate of expected conformity and normalcy. ... The Cold War was to last almost to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the death of the Soviet Union.