{"id":5164,"date":"2015-03-31T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:14:28","slug":"the-cold-war-and-the-third-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/03\/31\/the-cold-war-and-the-third-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cold War and the Third World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold War was the result of growing political and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Many are taught the Cold War was a nuclear stalemate between the two super powers, and that it caused the alliance that fought against Nazi Germany in World War II to end. And while all this is correct a major part of the Cold War that is often overlooked it the involvement of The United States and Soviet Union in the Third World. Roger Kanet\u2019s essay \u201cThe Superpower Quest for Empire: The Cold War and Soviet Support for \u2018Wars of National Liberation,\u2019\u201d focus on the Third World conflicts between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. \u201cIn this essay we examine the ways in which the superpowers expand their initially European based conflict thought the developing world.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kent\u2019s essay focuses on why the two countries become involved in a war over developing countries. Both countries wanted to spread their beliefs on what the correct on political and economic practices were, and neither country wanted the others ideas to spread. Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan were three of the countries affected by this conflict. Many people do not realize that the United States involvement in these countries is a result of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect of the cold war that has been overlooked, according to Kent, is the lasting impact it had on the world. Kanet points out that the conflict has \u201cfaded into the historical background\u201d and the lasting effects it had on the Third World are ignored. Kanet explains that the Third World is still suffering form the Cold War today and we should not overlook this.<\/p>\n<p>Thought his essay Kanet uses treaties made during the conflict and plans by political leaders such as <em>The Regan Doctrine<\/em> and Gorbachev\u2019s <em>New Thinking <\/em>to give a reliable take on the conflict. Kanet\u2019s essay gives important insight to aspects of the Cold War many people do not know about and his ideas should be shared to give people more knowledge on their history and its impact on the world they live in today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Kanet, Roger E. \u201cThe Superpower Quest for Empire: The Cold War and Soviet Support for \u2018Wars of National Liberation\u2019\u201d. <em>Cold War History<\/em>. Routledge August 2006. 331-352.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold War was the result of growing political and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Many are taught the Cold War was a nuclear stalemate between the two super powers, and that it caused the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/03\/31\/the-cold-war-and-the-third-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110561],"tags":[20068,110715,110716],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist254-archive","tag-cold-war","tag-roger-kanet","tag-third-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}