World History: global cold war

Question 1

Cold war wars dates

Answer 1

• Iran 1946
• Greece 1947
• Cuban Missile crisis 1962
• Czechoslovakia 1968
• Vietnamese war 1953-75
• Congo crisis 1960-65
• Central america crisis 1960-1996
• Operation Condor in Latin America 1968-89
• Angolan Civil War 1975
• Korean war 1950
• Algerian war 1954

Question 2

Third world

Answer 2

• Bandung conference 1955

- NAM (Non-aligned movement) 1961 with India, Indonesia, Egypt, Ghana, Algeria, Yugoslavia etc

Question 3

Decolonisation

Answer 3

• Between 1957 and 1962, 25 new states were created within Africa
• The FRELIMO in mozambique and FNLA and marxist MPLA in Angola

Question 4

American Empire

Answer 4

• Bretton Woods system in 1944
• USA supported Surkano in Indonesia in 1948
• Iranian coup in 1953 USA supported the Shah against the prime minister Mossadeq as he had tried to nationalise the oil companies
• Arbenz overthrown in 1954 in Guatemala