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THE “WINTER WAR” OF 1939-1940
A war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The war began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
“PHONY WAR”
An eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district. Nazi Germany carried out the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.
THE PACT OF STEEL
Known as the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy, was a military and political alliance between Italy and Germany.
FORTRESS EUROPA
A military propaganda term used by both sides of the Second World War which referred to the areas of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, as opposed to the United Kingdom across the Channel.
THE “BLITZ”
A German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
COLLABORATION
In World War II, some individuals and organizations and governments collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion.” Nationalists sometimes welcomed German or Italian troops, believing they brought liberation from colonization. (ACCEPTANCE OF AND COOPERATION WITH GERMAN CONTROL (OCCUPATION))
RESISTANCE
OPPOSITION TO GERMAN AUTHORITY IN VARIOUS PARTS OF WESTERN EUROPE
MARSHAL HENRI PETAIN
LEADER OF VICHY FRANCE
VICHY
CAPITAL OF UNOCCUPIED FRANCE
THE FREE FRENCH
(LED BY CHARLES DEGAULLE FROM LONDON, 1940-44 WHEN PARIS WAS RECOVERED) a political entity that claimed to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic.
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
(1940-1941) (GERMAN EFFORT LARGELY BY AIR TO CRUSH THE BRITISH LED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL)
SUDETENLAND
(WESTERN PARTS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA WITH MIXEDGERMAN AND CZECH POPULATION)
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Japan's attempt to form an economic and military bloc consisting of nations within East and Southeast Asia against Western colonization and manipulation, but it failed because of Japan's inability to promote true mutual prosperity within the alliance.
Appeasement
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, this was the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness.
MEETING OF DALADIER, CHAMBERLAIN, MUSSOLINI, HITLER: MUNICH CONFERENCE (SEPT.1938) TO SETTLE THE ISSUE OF THE SUDETENLAND)
An agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of land on the border between Czechoslovakia and Germany called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.
“POLISH CORRIDOR”
POLISH LAND SEPARATING EXTREME EASTERN GERMANY FROM THE REST OF GERMANY
ALONG WITH DANZIG (NOW CALLED GDANSK)
INTERNATIONAL PORT CITY ESSENTIAL FOR POLAND LOCATED IN THE POLISH CORRIDOR AND UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
GERMAN-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT OF AUGUST 1939
The countries agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them. Germany claimed Western Poland and part of Lithuania.
BLITZKRIEG (LIGHTNING WAR)
GERMAN MILITARY TACTIC FIRST USED AGAINST POLAND IN 1939. Germany's strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. Penetrate in a narrow gap in enemy point, then expand form inside. Communication was key in order to keep enemy off balance.
GERMAN INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION (JUNE 1941)
Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, which was code-named Operation Barbarossa, on June 22, 1941, deliberately breaking the nonaggression pact that the two countries had signed two years before. The invasion was the largest German military operation of World War II.
WORLD WAR II “BIG THREE”
(US, UK, USSR) Formed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory.
“GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR”
(SOVIET TERM FOR WORLD WAR II)
GENERAL TOJO
MAJOR JAPANESE LEADER DURING MOST OF THE WAR
“THE RAPE OF NANKING”
(JAPANESE ATTACK ON CHINESE CITY) The mass murder and mass rape of Chinese civilians committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War
JAPANESE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR (DEC.1941)
Surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II.
ANGLO- AMERICAN CAMPAIGNS IN NORTH AFRICA, SICILY, ITALY (1942 -1944)
The North African campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War) and in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), as well as Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign).
Operation Torch: Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942
Battle of El Alamein: decisive Allied victory in Egypt in November 1942
Operation Husky: Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943
Italian Campaign: Allied invasion of mainland Italy in September 1943
Battle of Monte Cassino: series of battles in Italy from January to May 1944
D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, drawing German forces away from Italy.
DAY-D OF EUROPE (JUNE 1944)
ANGLO-AMERICAN INVASION FROM FRANCE. Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France.
V-E DAY (VICTORY IN EUROPE)
MAY 1945
V-J DAY (VICTORY IN JAPAN)
AUGUST 1945
THE “FINAL SOLUTION” OR HOLOCAUST
NAZI PERSECUTION AND EFFORT TO DESTROY JEWRY
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, JAPAN
(SITES FOR US ATOMIC BOMBS): AUGUST 1945
SITZKRIEG (PHONY WAR): (OCT. 1939 TO APRIL 1940)
Six-month period (October 1939–March 1940) during which no land operations were undertaken by the Allies or the Germans after the German conquest of Poland in September 1939.
(ANGLO-AMERICAN) ATLANTIC CHARTER (1941)
A statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II.
YALTA MEETING
STALIN, ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL (JANUARY 1945) The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
POTSDAM MEETING
STALIN, TRUMAN WHO HAD REPLACED ROOSEVELT [APRIL 1945], CHURCHILL, THEN ATTLEE REPLACING CHURCHILL DURING CONFERENCE (JULY 1945). Held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS (1945-1946)
Held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II.
THE UNITED NATIONS
FOUNDED AT END OF WORLD WAR II TO REPLACE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
TURKEY AND GREECE AND COMMUNIST THREATS. Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
EUROPEAN RECOVERY ACT [MARSHALL PLAN] (1947- 1952)
A U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.
COMMON MARKET (EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY)
Founded in major step toward economic unity. On March 25, 1957, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg sign a treaty in Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the Common Market.
“THE IRON CURTAIN”
TERM POPULARIZED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1946 SPEECH. The political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.
THE TWO GERMANIES
EAST (PRO-SOVIET) AND WEST (PRO-WESTERN)
EAST BERLIN
CAPITAL OF EAST GERMANY
WEST BERLIN
PRO WESTERN CITY IN EAST GERMANY
BONN
CAPITAL OF WEST GERMANY
THE BERLIN AIRLIFT (1949)
Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
THE BUILDING OF THE BERLIN WALL (1961)
The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and a tangible manifestation of the world's separation into two distinct ideological blocs.
DE-STALINIZATION
(OFFICIAL REJECTION OF THE SPECIAL ROLE OF STALIN IN THE SOVIET UNION AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1953)
HUNGARIAN AND CZECHOSLOVAKIAN REVOLTS AGAINST USSR (1956, 1968)
A countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR). The uprising lasted 12 days before being crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on November 4, 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country.
AMERICAN-SOVIET SUMMIT CONFERENCES BEGINNING WITH GENEVA CONFERENCE OF 1955 WITH BRITISH AND FRENCH PARTICIPATION
Meeting in Geneva of the leaders of the U.S., France, Britain, and the Soviet Union that sought to end the Cold War.
RELATIONSHIPS OF EISENHOWER AND KENNEDY WITH KHRUSHCHEV
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev trade verbal threats over the future of Cuba. In the following years, Cuba became a dangerous focus in the Cold War competition between the United States and Russia.
Khrushchev noted Kennedy was young and good-natured, but inexperienced. This led him to believe that he could manipulate and intimidate Kennedy.
“PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE” IDEA OF THE 1950’S
The Soviet theory of peaceful coexistence asserted that the United States and USSR, and their respective political ideologies, could coexist rather than fighting one another, and Khrushchev tried to demonstrate his commitment to peaceful coexistence by attending international peace conferences, such as the Geneva Summit, and by traveling internationally, such as his 13-day trip to tour the United States in 1959. The World Peace Council founded in 1949 and largely funded by the Soviet Union attempted to organize a peace movement in favor of the concept internationally.
DETENTE IN THE 1970’S (NIXON/FORD AND LEONID BREZHNEV)
Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed an ABM treaty in Moscow on 26 May 1972 as well as the Interim Agreement (SALT I), which temporarily capped the number of strategic arms (MIRVs, SLBMs, and ICBMs). That was a show of détente militarily since an expansion of nuclear ballistic arms had started to occur.
CARTER AND AMERICAN BOYCOTT OF THE MOSCOW OLYMPICS (1980)
On March 21, 1980, President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter's February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO)(1949)
Was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union
THE WARSAW PACT [ASSOCIATION OF SOVIET DOMINATED COMMUNIST COUNTRIES]
A treaty that established a mutual-defense organization. It was composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
MARSHAL TITO’S YUGOSLAVIA SPLIT UP AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1980 (SERBIA, BOSNIA, FOR EXAMPLE)
Occurred as a result of a series of political upheavals and conflicts during the early 1990s. After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart, but the unresolved issues caused bitter inter-ethnic Yugoslav wars.
GORBACHEV'S POLICIES IN SOVIET UNION OF GLASNOST (OPENNESS) AND PERESTROIKA (ECONOMIC CHANGE)
Loosened centralized control of many businesses, allowing some farmers and manufacturers to decide for themselves which products to make, how many to produce, and what to charge for them.
This incentivized them to aim for profits, but it also went against the strict price controls that had been the bedrock of Soviet economic policies. It was a move that rankled many high-ranking officials who had previously headed these powerful central committees.
SOLIDARITY (POLISH LABOR MOVEMENT)
A Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the first independent trade union in a Warsaw Pact country to be recognised by the state. The union's membership peaked at 10 million in September 1981, representing one-third of the country's working-age population. Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and the union is widely recognised as having played a central role in the end of Communist rule in Poland.
THE “VELVET REVOLUTION” IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA: END OF COMMUNIST RULE
Non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 28 November 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older dissidents.
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
(1991 UNDER GORBACHEV)
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full independence on 26 December 1991.
BORIS YELTSIN AND VLADIMIR PUTIN
(POST SOVIET, RUSSIAN LEADERS)
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Yeltsin allied with various non-Russian nationalist leaders, and was instrumental in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December of that year. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the RSFSR became the Russian Federation, an independent state.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer, serving as the current president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012.
EMPEROR HIROHITO MAINTAINED IN POWER BY GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR IN CHARGE OF US OCCUPATION OF JAPAN
Designated as the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, General Douglas MacArthur directed the occupation mission with absolute authority. The primary purpose of the occupation was to disarm Japan and to punish the war criminals so that Japan would never again be a menace to the Allied countries.
TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIALS OF GENERAL TOJO AND OTHER JAPANESE LEADERS
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War.
MAO ZEDONG
(LED THE COMMUNIST CONQUEST OF CHINA: 1949) He formally proclaimed the creation of the People's Republic of China. The Communist victory had a major impact on the global balance of power: China became the largest socialist state by population, and, after the 1956 Sino-Soviet split, a third force in the Cold War.
CHIANG KAI SHEK
[DEFEATED LEADER OF THE GUOMINDANG PARTY IN MAINLAND CHINA AND AFTER 1949 ON THE ISLAND OF TAIWAN]
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As the leader of the Republic of China in the Nanjing decade, he sought to strike a difficult balance between modernizing China, while also devoting resources to defending the nation against the CCP, warlords, and the impending Japanese threat.
"NORMALIZATION" OF CHINESE- AMERICAN RELATIONS (AND THE ROLES OF PRESIDENTS OF NIXON AND CARTER IN 1972 AND 1979)
The seven-day official visit to three Chinese cities was the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC; Nixon's arrival in Beijing ended 25 years of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two countries and was the key step in normalizing relations between the U.S. and the PRC. Nixon visited the PRC to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union. The normalization of ties culminated in 1979, when the U.S. established full diplomatic relations with the PRC.
On January 1, 1979, the United States recognized the PRC and established diplomatic relations with it as the sole legitimate government of China. On the same day, the United States withdrew its recognition of, and terminated diplomatic relations with, the Republic of China as the government of China.
GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION UNDER MAO (1965-1976)
A sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976.
THE COMMUNIST CHINESE “GREAT LEAP FORWARD”(BEGINNING 1958)
Began during the period of the Second Five-Year Plan which was scheduled to run from 1958 to 1963, though the campaign itself was discontinued by 1961. Mao unveiled the Great Leap Forward at a meeting in January 1958 in Nanjing.
KOREAN WAR [1950-1953]
Fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
KIM IL-SUNG (NORTH KOREA)
FIRST COMMUNIST LEADER OF THE FAMILY
SYGNMAN RHEE (S.KOREA) 38TH PARALLEL DIVIDING KOREA
The Korean Peninsula was divided along the 38th parallel north from 1945 until 1950 and along the Military Demarcation Line from 1953 to present.
FRENCH INDOCHINA: LAOS, CAMBODIA, VIETNAM
A French colony and four protectorates in Southeast Asia established between l860 and 1904, and covering the present-day territories of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos
VIETMINH
(COMMUNIST FORCES OF HO CHI MINH)
VIET CONG
COMMUNIST ANTI-GOVERNMENT FORCES IN SOUTH VIETNAM
NGO DINH DIEM
(SOUTH VIETNAM LEADER IN SAIGON, (1954-1963)
\n HO CHI MINH (NORTH VIETNAM)
COMMUNIST LEADER IN HANOI, 1954-1969)
BATTLE OF DIEN BIEN PHU* (1954)
DEFEAT OF FRENCH AND FRENCH WITHDRAWAL FROM INDOCHINA
“DOMINO THEORY”
(EISENHOWER IN SPRING 1954): AMERICAN CONCERN ABOUT THE THREAT OF COMMUNIST SPREAD IN ASIA
PRESIDENTS JOHNSON AND NIXON AND AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM (1964-1974) AND THE “AMERICAN QUAGMIRE”
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In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina.
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Rather than accept the prospect of defeat, Nixon sent massive air force and naval reinforcements to bases in Indochina and Guam. On May 4 he decided to mine North Vietnam's harbors and open a sustained air offensive, Operation Linebacker, against North Vietnam.
The quagmire theory suggests that American leaders had unintentionally and mistakenly led the country into the Vietnam War
THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE REGARDING VIETNAM (1968-1973)
A peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.
FALL OF SOUTH VIETNAM TO COMMUNISTS (1975)
SAIGON
The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, effectively ending the Vietnam War. In the days before, U.S. forces evacuated thousands of Americans and South Vietnamese.
KWAME NKRUMAH AND GHANA (FORMERLY CALLED THE GOLD COAST AS A STATE IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE)
The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana.
NELSON MANDELA (SOUTH AFRICA)
APARTHEID (RACIAL SEGREGATION) AND THE LEADER OF THE ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT
MUSTAFA KEMAL “ATATURK”
FOUNDER OF MODERN TURKEY
ZIONISM AND THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL
Zionism is a political movement that was initiated in the late 19th century with the aim of actualizing the Jewish sense of peoplehood in a physical nation, leading to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Zionism today informs many Jews’ continued support and commitment to Israel.
IRAN RULED BY THE SHAH UNTIL THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION (1979) AND THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI, ISLAMIC LEADER
Iranian Revolution, also called Islamic Revolution, Persian Enqelāb-e Eslāmī, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on February 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic.
DAVID BEN-GURION
EARLY PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL
GOLDA MEIER
AMERICAN-BORN PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL IN THE 1960’S
OPEC
(ORGANIZATION OF OIL EXPORTING COUNTRIES, INCLUDING NIGERIA, SAUDI ARABIA AND VENEZUELA)
CAMP DAVID ACCORDS BETWEEN EGYPT (SADAT) AND ISRAEL (BEGIN) BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRESIDENT CARTER: 1978
Established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979.
PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (PLO) NOW THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY FOUNDED AND LED BY YASIR ARAFAT
Umbrella political organization claiming to represent the world’s Palestinians—those Arabs, and their descendants, who lived in mandated Palestine before the creation there of the State of Israel in 1948. Engaged in a protracted guerrilla war against Israel during the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s before entering into peace negotiations with that country in the 1990s.
FULGENCIO BATISTA
CUBAN PRESIDENT PRIOR TO CASTRO (1959)
FIDEL AND RAUL CASTRO
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION FIASCO (1961)
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (1962): KENNEDY VS. KHRUSHCHEV
Americans and Soviets had exchanged letters and other communications, and on October 26, Khrushchev sent a message to Kennedy in which he offered to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for a promise by U.S. leaders not to invade Cuba.
NAWAL EL SAADAWI (P. 931)
An Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman".
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE VIETNAM WAR (PP. 938-939)
The Vietnam War was a complex conflict that had significant global implications. The war was fought between the communist government of North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and the non-communist government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other Western allies. The conflict was deeply divisive and shaped global politics for decades, with its impact still being felt today.
C.L.R. JAMES ON PAN-AFRICAN LIBERATION (P. 942)
C.L.R. James was a Trinidadian Marxist and writer who played a significant role in the Pan-African liberation movement. His work focused on the need for unity among people of African descent and the struggle against colonialism and imperialism. James was a strong advocate for Pan-Africanism and his ideas had a significant impact on the movement for African liberation.
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