COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Providing money
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Providing weapons
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Sending soldiers to fight
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unable to fight each other directly because of mutual assured destruction (MAD), the superpowers fought “proxy wars” throughout the world, often by directly intervening with troops and by actively supporting surrogates with material assistance (Halperin, 1963; Mumford, 2013; Snow, 1996).
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Cold War, proxy warfare was motivated by fears that a conventional war between the United States and the Soviet Union would result in nuclear holocaust, which rendered the use of ideological proxies a safer way of exercising hostilities.
Detailed explanation-3: -While proxy wars occurred across the globe-from Central and South America, to parts of Asia-this article focuses on the proxy wars that occurred in the central, eastern, and southern portions of Africa.
Detailed explanation-4: -The USA and the USSR never fought directly. Instead, they pulled other countries into fighting their war. These wars are known as proxy wars. Example are-the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, the 1961 Berlin crisis, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Detailed explanation-5: -Those conflicts, also known as proxy wars, entailed the United States and Soviet Union providing political, financial, and military support to friendly governments.