what can you tell me in short about stuff going on in the world after WWII- like the revolution in China, Cuba, things going on in Africa and Asia that wer indirectly connected to the cold war...or direct me to a site that has all this in short (i don't have time to go through it all on wikipedia)...thanks!
2006-08-31 23:51:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If you don't have time to do your own homework, I guess I don't have time to condense a lot of history for you. Go to wikipedia.
2006-09-01 01:59:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is the time period you are looking into? After World War II is kind of large. Here is a brief rundown.
Soviet control and repression in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Siege of Berlin and the Berlin Airlift
Formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Anti-Colonial movements in Africa and Asia, especially India and
Vietnam
Formation of Israel
Run up to the Korean War
Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Western Europe
Chinese Communists take over control of China, Chinese
Nationalists flee to Taiwan
Plus about a thousand other things that were going on.
2006-09-01 11:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
China's Communists defeated the Nationalists in 1949; leader Mao Tse Tsung set the country up for the "Great Leap Forward" in the 50s where he starved out a lot of the population. The "Cultural Revolution" was anything but cultural and revolutionary.
The U.S. and Russia were at a standoff (along with Cuba). Russia and China were also at odds with each other, too.
2006-09-01 12:04:42 · answer #3 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many of the things you mention became prominent in the Cold War because of Soviet Premier Khruschev trying to deter the West from fiddling with East Germany in general, and East Berlin in particular.
Because East Germany originally had an open border to West Germany, and the line between East and West Berlin was at times the wall between two adjoining rooms in the same building (no I am not kidding about that!), the West used its contacts within Eastern Europe to entice educated professionals to travel to East Berlin and escape to the West. This became an enormous drain on the economic recovery in the Soviet bloc, especially since the Kremlin still felt its only viable counter to American nuclear superiority was the maintenance of an enormous army to instantly seize Western Europe (If the Americans incinerate everyone in Smolensk, the Red Army will shoot everyone in Lyon France!).
Consequently, Russia frittered away the 1950's and 1960s trying to entice revolution in Africa and in Asia, building the Aswan Dam in Egypt, and latching onto Castro's insurgency after Battista proved to be too inept to hold onto power. Russia tried to entice Lamumba in Zaire, only to sit by while he was tortured to death by reactionary forces. They built the Aswan Dam while Eastern Europe still languished in post-World War II devastation only to be kicked out after one too many defeats by Egypt at the hands of the Isrealis.
As for China, just like in Cuba, the Russians NEVER liked Mao until after Chiang Kai Chek had thrown away his entire country through corruption and political repression. The Russians who occupied Manchuria gave some captured Japanese arms to Mao but the good stuff all went to Kim Il Sung in the puppet state of North Korea.
In short, while our patriot class was crying that we were losing the Cold War, the Red Menace was mismanaging itself into 'The Dustbin of History,' no matter what Ann Coulter says!
Anyways, I hope this will help you.
2006-09-01 15:16:59 · answer #4 · answered by sdvwallingford 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok check www.wikipedia.org....it will give u better explanations than me
2006-09-01 06:55:23 · answer #5 · answered by rapstar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋