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Great hopes for a new, better world order abounded in Bretton Woods, NH in 1944 and in San Francisco in 1945 (when the United Nations was founded). But the unity that the Allies had maintained in their fight against Germany and Japan in World War II quickly unraveled. Some say that the breaking of such unity occurred when Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov walked out of the talks on the Marshall Plan in 1947. Others date the demise to the Berlin blockade in 1948. Westad argued that the Cold War began and ended at varying times depending on where in the world a country was located. (What would Westad say about the timeline of the specific country you research on?) When do you think the wartime unity shattered and ushered in the Cold War? Argue why you think Allied unity foundered and the new post-World War II order was bipolar rather than universal.