The Peace on The Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (42)

 

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Chapter 2 Global wave – The end of colonial era and the emerging two super powers (4)

 

042 La Marseillaise & The Internationale (1/3)

In World War II, the United States, Britain and France which society were the capitalism and the socialistic USSR jointly fought against Germany and Japan of totalitarianism. The world experienced twice world warfare within less than half a century. All of the citizens in the world got bored with wars. They established the United Nations after World War II and looked for the permanent peace.

 

Article 1 of the UN Charter stated that it aims to "maintain international peace and security". Everyone claimed no more wars. But the West and the East had quite different ideology, so the peace between them quickly failed. "Hot Wars" in which both sides confronted direct

. But the "Cold Wars" were started and prevailed globally. Local hot wars have taken place in various parts of the world. They were the proxy wars between the West and the East.

 

In the Middle East, revolutions took in the form of military coup. In Egypt it was a confrontation between Association of Free Officers led by Gamal Abdul Nasser with the support of the USSR and the royalists supported by the UK. In Syria it was a fighting struggle between minority tribes supported by France and the majority tribe who received military assistance from the USSR. France supported minority tribes to keep substantive power.

 

(To be continued ----)

 

 

Areha Kazuya

(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)