1. What factors influenced the origins of the Cold War?
... Portugal, a military coup in Afghanistan, Ayatollah Rhomeini gaining power in Iran, the New Jewel Movement taking Grenada, Sandinistas taking Managua in Nicaragua and Zimbabwe gaining independence from Britain. This period of time drew the Third World into the Cold War and Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States, said that, "the growing technological sophistication of Third World conflicts will place serious demands on our forces,"" as he felt that ... its allies and was originally implemented to convince Congress that giving aid to Turkey and Greece was the moral action to ta...
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