🕓 Time Period: 1900-Present
Chapters
8.1: Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization 8.2: The Cold War8.3: Effects of the Cold War8.4: Spread of Communism after 1900 8.5: Decolonization after 1900 8.6: Newly Independent States 8.8: End of the Cold War 8.9: Causation in the Age of the Cold War and DecolonizationContext
Aftermath of the two world wars led to two major developments
- Decline of colonial empires
- Nationalist movements in Asia and Africa intensified
- Colonies achieved independence either through negotiations or armed struggle
- Newly independent states tried to promote economic development
- Rise of tensions between capitalist and communist states
- US vs USSR
- Cold War conducted through competing military alliances, a nuclear arms race, and proxy wars in postcolonial states in Latin America, Asia, and Africa
- Also led to rise of Non-Aligned Movement