When did the Cold War become global?

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject History of Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: 1, Oxford University, language: English, abstract: The 20th century was shaped by three wars, each global and utterly destructive in its own way. The first took the world by surprise and crushed the romantic ideal of heroism with industrialised brutality. The second stained the very core of mankind with u...