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the effect of the cold war on third world countries

Tag: the effect of the cold war on third world countries
In what ways did the Cold War affect international relations between 1945 and 1990?
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Content: A good example of this was the armed intervention by the United States in the Dominican Republic in 1965, here the US aim was as suggested by Young & Kent, (2004) to stop the spread of communism in the region; in other words, this was a pre-emptive attack against communism. Another example was the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and the failed attempt to overthrow Castro’s government in Cuba because America regarded Castro as an unfriendly and enemy (Bell, 2001). Furthermore, superpower rivalry was played out in parts of the world for example, in sub-Saharan Africa particularly Angola which became a battleground for the superpowers. On the one hand, the USSR and Cuba were supporting and arming Angolan government while on the other hand the USA and South Africa supported the UNITA rebels. 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;