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the effect of the cold war on third world countries

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In what ways did the Cold War affect international relations between 1945 and 1990?
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Content: In many other cases, the superpowers’ support economically and militarily to various government and rebels in Africa exacerbated the civil war that engulfed the continent (Wayne et al., 2005). Due to the superpower rivalry played out in the third world, millions of people died as a result of the Cold War because of civil war and other conflicts that affected many parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Indeed as Painter ( 2001) pointed out most of the millions who perished during the cold war died in the third world thus, the cold war had a profound effect on those parts of the world. The Cold War increased tensions within international community because of the actions of the two superpowers; they pursued political and ideological goals some of which were ever more opposing with the objectives of the other for example: the Soviet believed that America is an imperialist power and therefore committed to spreading capitalist ideology with the intention of dominating the rest of world, on the other hand, the USA saw the Soviet as an ideologically motivated and “antagonistically” expansionist evil empire that is committed to the spread of communism (Painter, 2001). Thus as Bell (2001) pointed out both superpowers advocated that their system of belief was the only way forward for a better world. Another impact of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 that internationally created fears of an imminent nuclear war between the US and the USSR this clearly further increased tension between the two superpowers and their allies and as Baylis et al. ( 2008) suggested this was the “most dangerous moment” the world has ever seen since the end of the second world war (Baylis et al 2008, p.62).