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24 sie 2018 · While proxy wars occurred across the globe — from Central and South America, to parts of Asia — this article focuses on the proxy wars that occurred in the central, eastern, and southern portions of Africa.
19 sie 2021 · Cold War conflicts played havoc with African politics. They skewed the complex processes of decolonisation, and snuffed out many of the fledgling democracies that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
13 maj 2020 · Cold War in Asia. The development of the Cold War in Asia converged and combined with anti-colonial struggles and the formation of states and political regimes in the newly independent but still poor countries. In most of these new states, agriculture remained the major economic activity.
28 sty 2018 · This chapter provides a succinct review of the role of the major Cold War actors (the USA with its European allies and the USSR) on Africa’s decolonization process. Based on the actions of these major actors, Kalu argues that the intrigues of the Cold War...
27 paź 2021 · In the mid-1950s, two developments signaled the arrival of the Cold War in North Africa: the Algerian War of independence against France began in November 1954; and Egypt adopted an independent foreign policy, challenging British influence in the Middle East, helping the Algerian rebels, and buying weapons from the Soviet bloc.
The Cold War in Asia was a major dimension of the worldwide Cold War that shaped diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991. The main countries involved were the United States, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, and ...
22 lut 2016 · Though often absent from retellings of the Cold War, the interventions and alliances conceived in Southern Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, had a profound and sometimes devastating impact.
