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C-33 S-4 Cold War Around the World. The Cold War superpowers supported opposing sides in Latin American and Middle Eastern conflicts. Many of these areas today are troubled by political, economic, and military conflict and crisis. Post WWII ( nations grouped in 3 categories).
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C-33 S-4 Cold War Around the World • The Cold War superpowers supported opposing sides in Latin American and Middle Eastern conflicts. • Many of these areas today are troubled by political, economic, and military conflict and crisis.
Post WWII (nations grouped in 3 categories) • First World: U.S. & its allies • Second World: Soviet Union & its allies • Third World: Developing nations, often independent, not aligned with either superpower
India 2nd largest in populationvowed to remain neutral in the Cold War
Cuban missile crisis WWIIIThis U-2 reconnaissance photo showed concrete evidence of missile assembly in Cuba
Iranian Hostage Crisis 444 days Iranian militants escort a blindfolded U.S. hostage to the media
Afghanistan: Soviet Union’s Vietnam Soviet troops withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1988.
Important Facts • The Cold War superpowers supported opposing sides in Latin American and Middle Eastern conflicts. • Many of these areas today are troubled by political, economic, and military conflict and crisis.
During the Cold War, which of the these countries was a nonaligned nation? CubaIndiaJapan Poland
The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow the government of what Communist leader?
The United States and the Soviet Union had a dangerous standoff over the presence of Soviet missiles in what country in the Western Hemisphere?
Islamic revolutionaries held more than 60 Americans hostage for over a year in what Asian country?
The Cuban missile crisis pitted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev against President ______.
During the Cold War, most Third World countries could have been accurately described as which of the following? • Developing nations • Established democracies • Located in Eastern Europe • Aligned with the United States
Following World War II, who was a part of each of these?========== • The First World • The Second World • The Third World
The First World U.S. and its allies • The Second World Soviet Union and its allies • The Third World Developing nations, often independent, not aligned with either superpower