| Summary/Abstract |
If we look at major confrontations of the 1940s-1950s (the dispute
over Iran, tensions over West Berlin, or the Korean War), the Soviet
Union failed to achieve its goals in any of them. Nevertheless, at the
end of the first decade of the Cold War, the Soviet Union emerged as
a formidable opponent of the United States. Its rise was due to the
growing economic and military might, and this growth was in no way
hindered by occasional foreign policy setbacks.
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