Discuss 3 major ways that the emergence of communism impacted the world during the 1900s

The Cold War with the democratic West that shaped global politics for half a century. The communist/democratic divide also led to an arms race which resulted in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The fall of the Soviet Union led to the disintegration of states and the Balkanization of various states which resulted in conflict and even genocides.

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