... . Environmental effects from chemical agents and the colossal social problems caused by a devastated country with so many dead surely caused many more lives to be shortened. In addition, the Khmer Rouge would probably not have come into power and committed their slaughters without the destabilization of the war, particularly of the American bombing campaigns in Cambodia. Afghanistan The afghan war, which ... ...

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... War as the tensions arose again after a period of détente. These conflicts in the Third World were numerous, and include the overthrow of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, the Khmer Rouge taking Phnom Penh in Cambodia, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong taking Saigon, Pathet Lao taking over Laos, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Angola gaining independence from ... ...

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