After 1945, Africa became caught up in the confrontation between America and the Soviet Union, the so-called Cold War. Anti-Communism informed almost every aspect of the South African government's ...

In the Middle East and Africa the Cold War was waged by proxies of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. with no direct military confrontation between the two superpowers. But in Asia, the U.S. was a direct ...

By deftly manipulating the opportunities afforded Cuba by the Cold War ... in West Africa was due to receive its independence in November 1975. The country edged toward civil war as three separate ...