C-33 S-4 Cold War Around the World The Cold War superpowers supported opposing sides in Latin American and Middle Eastern conflicts. Many of these areas today are troubled by political, economic, and military conflict and crisis.
Post WWII (nations grouped in 3 categories) First World: U.S. & its allies Second World: Soviet Union & its allies Third World: Developing nations, often independent, not aligned with either superpower
India 2 nd largest in population vowed to remain neutral in the Cold War
Bay of Pigs Kennedy vs. Khrushchev & Castro
Kennedy vs. Khrushchev & Castro
Cuban missile crisis WWIII This U-2 reconnaissance photo showed concrete evidence of missile assembly in Cuba
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (UNITED STREAMING)
Nicaraguan Civil War Sandinista vs. Contra
Political Map Of Iran
Khomeini & Return to Iran in 1979
Iranian Hostage Crisis 444 days Iranian militants escort a blindfolded U.S. hostage to the media
FAILED ATTEMPT TO RESCUE HOSTAGES IN IRAN
Afghanistan: Soviet Union’s Vietnam Soviet troops withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1988.
Important Facts The Cold War superpowers supported opposing sides in Latin American and Middle Eastern conflicts. Many of these areas today are troubled by political, economic, and military conflict and crisis.
C-33 Important Facts
During the Cold War, which of the these countries was a nonaligned nation? Cuba India Japan Poland
India
The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow the government of what Communist leader?
Fidel Castro
The United States and the Soviet Union had a dangerous standoff over the presence of Soviet missiles in what country in the Western Hemisphere?
Cuba
Islamic revolutionaries held more than 60 Americans hostage for over a year in what Asian country?
Iran
What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979?
Afghanistan
The Cuban missile crisis pitted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev against President ______.
John F. Kennedy
During the Cold War, most Third World countries could have been accurately described as which of the following? Developing nations Established democracies Located in Eastern Europe Aligned with the United States
Developing nations
Following World War II, who was a part of each of these? ========== The First World The Second World The Third World
The First World U.S. and its allies The Second World Soviet Union and its allies The Third World Developing nations, often independent, not aligned with either superpower