{"id":583,"date":"2025-02-21T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/internationalhistory20c\/?post_type=content&p=583"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:20:20","slug":"chapter-9-asia-in-turmoil-nationalism-revolution-and-the-rise-of-the-cold-war-1945-53","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/students\/chapter-9-asia-in-turmoil-nationalism-revolution-and-the-rise-of-the-cold-war-1945-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9: Asia in Turmoil: Nationalism, Revolution and the Rise of the Cold War, 1945\u201353"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chapter 9: Asia in Turmoil: Nationalism, Revolution and the Rise of the Cold War, 1945\u201353<\/h1>\n\n\n
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The encroachment of the Cold War and its attendant reductionist logic had a profound effect on Asia. The volatility of the Cold War in Asia came about because it coincided with the first major wave of decolonization. This led to increasing regional instability within which local nationalist aspirations both manipulated and were taken advantage of by the major players in the Cold War, such as the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China (from 1949) to mould the region to suit their own interests. As a result, while the Cold War in Europe settled into a political stalemate, in Asia it led to several dangerous conflicts arising, most notably the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 and the Vietnamese struggle against French colonialism that culminated in the Geneva Conference of 1954. At the same time some newly independent states, such as India, Burma and Indonesia, sought to protect their national interests by adopting neutralism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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