The World War II And The Cold War - 1199 Words

When speaking to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin about the fate of Europe, Winston Churchill said â€Å"Might it not be thought rather cynical if it seemed we disposed of these issues, so fateful to millions of people in such an off-hand manner?† In what would come to be known as the â€Å"Percentages† Agreement, Churchill and Stalin had begun discussing a new age of imperialism that would follow the end of World War II. The imperialism they discussed was one of political and commercial influence as a way to control territories, instead of the colonial method. The colonial empires remained devastated following the events of World War II and, the dawn of Stalin and Churchill’s new imperialism would spark the Cold War between the economically†¦show more content†¦The Soviet Union’s Sovietization of Eastern Europe was Joseph Stalin’s response to the betrayal of Great Britain in the â€Å"Percentages† Agreement and the failure of the Gr and Alliance. Outside of those nations however, the Soviet Union began to promote self-sustaining economic freedom in the form of the Soviet economy. This heavily conflicted and disrupted with the â€Å"Trilateral† Empire’s attempts at constructing an economically controlled empire. As the United States and Soviet Union divided the world into two positions, rising national powerhouses, such as Argentina, implemented the idea of a Third Position for the war. The Third Position, embraced by Argentina’s president Juan Perà ³n, gave a new option during the height of the Cold War. Perà ³n’s Third Position was a removal from the conflict of the First Position, the United States and Western Europe, and the Second Position, the Soviet Union and its satellite territories. Unknown at the time, the idea of the Third Position would begin to merge with the idea of the Global South to make targets of Latin America, Africa, and East Asia. The Global South was a ter m that rose to popularity around 1947 to describe the areas of the world that had previously been colonies of Europe however, the United States and Canada were exempt