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
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