1. 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.

2. 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

3. India  2 nd largest in population vowed to remain neutral in the Cold War

4. Bay of Pigs Kennedy vs. Khrushchev & Castro

5. Kennedy vs. Khrushchev & Castro

6. Cuban missile crisis  WWIII This U-2 reconnaissance photo showed concrete evidence of missile assembly in Cuba

7. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (UNITED STREAMING)

8. Nicaraguan Civil War Sandinista vs. Contra 1981-1990

9. Political Map Of Iran

10. Khomeini & Return to Iran in 1979

11. Iranian Hostage Crisis  444 days Iranian militants escort a blindfolded U.S. hostage to the media

12. FAILED ATTEMPT TO RESCUE HOSTAGES IN IRAN

14. Afghanistan: Soviet Union’s Vietnam Soviet troops withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1988.

15. 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.

16. C-33 Important Facts

17. During the Cold War, which of the these countries was a nonaligned nation? Cuba India Japan Poland

18. India

19. The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to overthrow the government of what Communist leader?

20. Fidel Castro

21. The United States and the Soviet Union had a dangerous standoff over the presence of Soviet missiles in what country in the Western Hemisphere?

22. Cuba

23. Islamic revolutionaries held more than 60 Americans hostage for over a year in what Asian country?

24. Iran

25. What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979?

26. Afghanistan

27. The Cuban missile crisis pitted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev against President ______.

28. John F. Kennedy

29. 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

30. Developing nations

31. Following World War II, who was a part of each of these? ========== The First World The Second World The Third World

32. 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