The pitfalls of national isolationism were brought to the surface by World War II. Allied nations needed each other in order to defeat Hitler and his Nazi war machine. The advantages of globalism were evident, and after the War, seen as the new order in an ever-shrinking world.
A strong international body had been envisioned by Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. In 1945, the United Nations was established, and based in New York City, in the hopes of assuring global peace and cooperation.
But Stalin and the Soviet Union had plans other than peaceful participation in a global community. During WWII, the Soviets engulfed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and soon controlled the governments of Romania and Bulgaria. By 1945, Poland was under Soviet rule and Hungary and Czechoslovakia teetered on the brink of Soviet dominance. After World War II when Germany was divided into four sectors––the U.S., France, England, and the Soviet Union––Stalin ordered the installation of a communist government in the Soviet sector.
It seemed the Red Army was invincible. How could a war-weary U.S. and Great Britain combat the flood of Soviet dominance and communism? Would France and Italy fall as well?
Stay tuned!
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