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The Cold War and the Periphery

The focus of the article was to make known the fact, that while the Cold War did in fact start in Europe, it wasn't focused there again until the end. As the Cold War continued it began to become a war of ideology more than anything else. This meant that the war shifted away from Europe, into the Periphery where it began to take form as smaller skirmishes. These included the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

The debate was not whether the already Communist or Capitalist countries would change, as those regimes were mainly set in place. But whether or not the countries newly coming to the world stage would become capitalist or communist. The Cuban Revolution was a main example of this, being a country that revolted and switched to Communism.

Upon the end of the Cold War however, the focus switch back to Europe, with the events in Berlin