THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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It provided the weapons needed to gain revenge on European colonists.
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It destroyed African nations that were democratic.
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It offered Africans scholarships to study in the Soviet Union.
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It offered African governments membership into the Warsaw Pact.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soviet foreign policy in Somalia and Ethiopia was based on the Horn of Africa’s strategic location for international trade and shipping as well as its military importance.
Detailed explanation-2: -Soviet influence in the “socialist-leaning countries” was mainly political and ideological rather than economically exploitative: the Soviet Union pumped enormous amounts of “international assistance” into them in order to secure influence, ultimately to the detriment of its own economy.
Detailed explanation-3: -From 1945 to 1953, the USSR expanded its influence by creating the Eastern Bloc across states like Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Stalin set up puppet communist governments that he could control. He repressed anyone who resisted.
Detailed explanation-4: -The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Constitution.