resolve disqutes peacefully.This Promise was
soon shattered, however, by the Cold War —
tension between the United States and the
Soviet Union. These two superpowers engaged
in an arms race, spending huge sums of money
on weapons. The other nations of the world
were split into two "sides," and the world was
frozen in a perpetual state of hostility, seemingly
on the brink of destruction
It was not until the collapse of communist
governments in the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe between 1989 and 1991 that the Cold
War ended and the political climate changed.
The end of Cold War tension made the global
village more politically possible by opening new
channels of communication between nations.