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Headings: Cold War (1962–1979)
Cold War (1962–1979)
Contents
Third World and non-alignment in the 1960s and 1970s
Decolonization
Third World alliances
Cuban Revolution and Cuban Missile Crisis
30 September Movement
1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
Vietnam War
Nixon Doctrine
Sino–Soviet split
Détente and changing alliance
Culture and media
Significant documents
See also
Notes
Citations
References

Content: Contents
1 Third World and non-alignment in the 1960s and 1970s
1.1 Decolonization
1.2 Third World alliances
1.3 Cuban Revolution and Cuban Missile Crisis
1.4 30 September Movement
2 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
3 Vietnam War
4 Nixon Doctrine
5 Sino–Soviet split
6 Détente and changing alliance
7 Culture and media
8 Significant documents
9 See also
10 Notes
11 Citations
12 References
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Decolonization
Further information: Decolonization
Cold War politics were affected by decolonization in Africa, Asia, and to a limited extent, Latin America as well. The economic needs of emerging Third World states made them vulnerable to foreign influence and pressure. The era was characterized by a proliferation of anti-colonial national liberation movements, backed predominantly by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The Soviet leadership took a keen interest in the affairs of the fledgling ex-colonies because it hoped the cultivation of socialist clients there would deny their economic and strategic resources to the West. Eager to build its own global constituency, the People's Republic of China attempted to assume a leadership role among the decolonizing territories as well, appealing to its image as a non-white, non-European agrarian nation which too had suffered from the depredations of Western imperialism. Both nations promoted global decolonization as an opportunity to redress the balance of the world against Western Europe and the United States, and claimed that the political and economic problems of colonized peoples made them naturally inclined towards socialism. Western fears of a conventional war with the communist bloc over the colonies soon shifted into fears of communist subversion and infiltration by proxy. The great disparities of wealth in many of the colonies between the colonized indigenous population and the colonizers provided fertile ground for the adoption of socialist ideology among many anti-colonial parties. This provided ammunition for Western propaganda which denounced many anti-colonial movements as being communist proxies.