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The Cold War led to some less-than-desired psychological effects. The United States and Russia and, to a greater extent, the world, lived in fear of impending nuclear doom. The psyche of US citizens during the Cold War was unstable due to the overwhelming sense of fear, powerlessness, and uncertainty about the future. [ 5 ]
Soviet Policy in West Africa (1970). Matusevich, Maxim. "Revisiting the Soviet Moment in Sub-Saharan Africa" History Compass. (2009) 7#5 pp 1259–1268. Mazov, Sergey. A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956–1964 (2010). Meredith, Martin. The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (2006).
Scramble for Africa: Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The Scramble for Africa between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the ...
The Congo Crisis in 1960 drew Cold War battle lines in Africa, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo became a Soviet ally, causing concern in the West. [3] However, by the early 1960s, the Cold War reached its most dangerous point with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Pages in category "Cold War in Africa" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
It was a historic day for South Africa. For the first time, the African National Congress will have to form a coalition to govern South Africa, whose role on the global stage is growing as it ...