TOPIC 7 The Postwar and The “Cold War”

TOPIC 7 The Postwar and The “Cold War”

6. VIETNAM

The country was divided between the communist north and the capitalist south. The nationalist and leftist guerrillas of the Viet Cong rose against the government of the latter, supported by the north.

5. THE IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT

The struggle between the USSR and the United States was not only for territories or control of resources

4. THE COLD WAR

The Cold War was the historical moment between the Soviet Union and its allies with the United States and theirs. The latter constituted a defense agency, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

3. THE RISE OF ARABS

After the war an Arab movement of identity and reinvindication was awakened, which achieved the independence and regrouping of several countries of Islamic majority.

1. ECONOMIC GROWTH

The United States carried out the Marshall Plan to revive European economies and rebuild the industrial centers of its war allies, Germany and Italy.

2. THE PEOPLE´S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

China suffered the economic penetration of the Western powers, the Japanese invasion and the civil war. Since 1920 it was ruled by Komitang, led by Chiang Kaishek.