WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In response, Lumumba petitioned the United Nations to send in peacekeeper troops, and when those proved ineffective, asked the Soviet Union for aid. This quickly turned the conflict into a proxy war, with the United States and Belgium supporting Kasa-Vubu’s faction and the Soviet Union supporting Lumumba.

Detailed explanation-2: -After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states began a decades-long struggle for supremacy known as the Cold War. Soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do battle directly during the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -Effects. Proxy wars can have a huge impact, especially on the local area. A proxy war with significant effects occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Vietnam War. Operation Rolling Thunder, a U.S bombing campaign in North Vietnam destroyed significant amounts of infrastructure.

Detailed explanation-4: -Over more than four decades of Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union waged multiple proxy wars across the globe. In the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and other armed conflicts, the superpowers funded opposing sides or fought directly against communist or capitalist militias.

Detailed explanation-5: -Following lengthy negotiations, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington in April 1949. Initial member-states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) included the United States and all five Brussels treaty nations, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway and Portugal.