COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF 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: -One way by which the Soviets could win friends in the continent, as well as spread the Marxist-Leninist gospel among its future leaders, was to offer scholarships for Africans to study at universities in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries.
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: -Despite the widely reported Soviet support for the ANC and otherwise liberation movements, the Soviet Union also engaged in some trade with South Africa during the apartheid era, mostly involving arms and some mineral resources.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Stalin implemented a series of Five-Year Plans to spur economic growth and transformation in the Soviet Union. The first Five-Year Plan focused on collectivizing agriculture and rapid industrialization. Subsequent Five-Year Plans focused on the production of armaments and military build-up.