The Emergence of Third World Countries

Brian Jing

Proxy War/Client States (745-746)

• Third world countries seeked help from the Soviet Union and the U.S.became allies and clients

• Superpowers overthrew hostile gov’ts and involved them in war against each other

• Devastating resultslots of death• Third world countries began to have

influences over the world and began to reject help from the U.S. and Soviet Nation

Non-aligned Nations (742-743)

• A newly independent nation that chose not to align itself with either the USA or USSR in the cold war

• Formed from the reaction against interferences like proxy wars from the USA and USSR

Patrice Lumumba (738-740)• Prime Minister of the Congo• Provided a more national and

militant leadership compared to Kasavubu (president of Congo)

• Delivered speeches against Belgium cruelty

• After independence, the army mutinied and Kasavubu dismissed Lumumba

• Lumumba wanted UN peace keeping force, but Kasavubu didn’t

• Lumumba appealed for U.S. assistance

• Lumumba captured and murdered by Kasavubu

Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter (747-748)

• Jimmy Carter attempted an accomodation with the new Sandinista gov’t

• Reagan sought after a policy of destablization

• Reagan authorized creation of a paramilitary force

• CIA trained and supplied contras in Nicaragua and instructed them in terrorismviolation of U.S. laws

• Reagan administration had secret arm sale with Iran

• This scandal gave Central American governments the opportunity to negotiate a settlement of the civil war in Nicaragua

Bandung Conference (745)• Leaders of 20 nations of Africa and Asia created a

post-colonial agenda• For the first time, non-Western leaders

assembled to articulate their own vision of a new order

• Formed regional groups• Called for global reduction in:– Military expenditure– Ideological confrontation– Increase in expenditure for economic development,

health, education, welfare, and housing

Balfour Declaration (873-874)

• A proposal that would redistribute lands of the Ottoman Empire to the Arabs and Jews if Britain could conquer them

• Inserted a colonial voice of divide-and-rule into middle of the Middle East

• Arabs and Jews follow British orders in hope for landleads to growing conflict between the two