Abstract
The study of the involvement of Britain and the United States in the Cold War has been complicated by the lack of an agreement among historians as to when the conflict can be said to have started. This, in turn, has led to uncertainty over which events can be labelled as causes and which as occurring during the course of the Cold War. In these circumstances, British and US government perceptions of each other's policies towards the Soviet Union provide a convenient and effective way of charting the various stages by which they reached, in their collective minds, a state of Cold War with the Soviet Union. This process is clearly illustrated by a review of British and US policies on the question of the Italian colonies (that is, the future of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland or Somalia, and Libya) from 1945–52: an issue which played a significant part in the breakdown of postwar Allied cooperation and the start of the Cold War.KeywordsMiddle EastForeign MinisterBritish GovernmentEthiopian GovernmentBritish PolicyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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