MYP Humanities/ DP Individuals & Societies @ IICS
  • Home
  • Grade 7
    • Unit 1: How We Organize History
    • Unit 2: Early Human Communities
    • Unit 3: Ancient Meso-America
    • Unit 4: Ancient Japan
    • Unit 5: Ancient Greece
  • Grade 8
  • Grade 9
    • Unit 1: The French Revoltuion
  • Grade 10
    • Prologue >
      • Bias
      • Evaluating Sources
    • Unit 1: World War II >
      • Aftermath of WWI >
        • Causes of World War II
      • Causes of World War II >
        • Quickwrite #1: Power...
      • WWII pre-D Day
      • European Theater >
        • Topography
      • Pacific Theater >
        • Quickwrite #2: Dropping the bomb...
      • Geography: WWII
    • Unit 2: Cold War >
      • Post WWII >
        • quickwrite #3: When did it get so cold?
        • Cold War Map activity
        • Political Cartoons: Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan >
          • Cartoon Assignment
        • CNN Cold War Documentary >
          • Comrades video
          • Iron Curtain video
          • Marshall Plan Video
          • Berlin Video
          • Korea Video
          • Reds Video
          • After Stalin Video
          • Sputnik Video
          • The Wall Video
          • Cuba Video
          • Vietnam War Video
          • MAD Video
          • Make Love Not War Video
          • Red Spring Video
          • China Video
          • Detente Video
          • Good Guys, Bad Guys Video
          • Backyard Video
          • Freeze Video
          • Soldiers of God Video
          • Spies Video
          • Star Wars Video
          • The Wall Comes Down Video
          • Conclusions Video
      • Asia >
        • Korean War >
          • Korean War Video
        • Vietnam War >
          • Vietnam War Timeline
          • Vietnam War Video
          • Quickwrite #4: Images of the Vietnam War
        • Laos & Cambodia >
          • Refugee crisis
      • Latin America >
        • Country Brief
      • Africa >
        • Country Brief
      • Collapse of the Soviet Union >
        • Fall of the Soviet Union
      • Cold war summative assessment
    • 1st semester final exam
    • 1st semester reflection
    • Unit 3: Global Interdependence >
      • World Religions
      • Globalization
    • writing center >
      • Research Paper
  • Grade 11
    • DP Econ y1 >
      • External Assessments >
        • Assessment Strategies
      • Internal Assessment
      • Unit 1.1 - Microeconomics: Competitive Markets >
        • In the News
        • Committee Memorandum
        • Guns vs. Butter
        • Short Answer Questions
        • Worksheets
        • Higher Level
      • Unit 1.2 - Microeconomics: Elasticity >
        • In the News
        • Elasticity Questions
        • worksheets
      • Unit 1.3 - Microeconomics: Government Intervention >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 1.4 - Microeconomics: Market Failure >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Standard Level 1.5*
      • start Internal Assessment
      • Unit 1.5 - Microeconomics: Theory of the Firm & Market Structures (HL only) >
        • In the News
        • Backwards Test
        • Perfect Competition Questions
        • Worksheets
      • The Airline Industry Sucks
      • Unit 1 review
      • 1st semester reflection
      • Unit 2.1 - Macroeconomics: The Level of Overall Economic Activity >
        • In the News
        • Tale of Two Countries
        • Quickwrite: GDP
        • worksheets
        • Food for Thought
      • Unit 2.2 - Macroeconomics: Aggregate Demand & Aggregate Supply >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.3: Macroeconomic Objectives >
        • In the News
        • Inflation & unemployment
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.4 - Macroeconomics: Fiscal Policy >
        • In the News
        • Quickwrite: Money
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.5: Monetary Policy >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.6: Supply-Side Economics >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
    • DP Geo Y1 >
      • Geography Monkey
      • Intro Ibdp Geo
      • Course Structure
    • DP History y1
  • Grade 12
    • DP Econ y2 >
      • External Assessments >
        • In the News
        • Assessment Strategies
      • Unit 3.1: International Trade >
        • Worksheets
        • HL Comparative vs. Absolute Advantage Problem
      • Unit 3.2: Exchange Rates >
        • In the News
        • Exchange Rate Questions
        • worksheets
      • Unit 3.3: The Balance of Payments >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 3.4: Economic Integration >
        • united we fall documentary
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 3.5: Terms of Trade (HL only) >
        • In the News
        • IB Examiner
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.1: Economic Development >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.2: Measuring Development
      • Unit 4.3: The Role of Domestic Factors >
        • In the News
        • Questions
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.4: The Role of International Trade >
        • In the News
      • Unit 4.5: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.6: The Roles of Foreign Aid & Multilateral Development Assistance >
        • In the News
      • Unit 4.7: The Role of International Debt >
        • In the News
      • Unit 4.8: The Balance Between Markets & Intervention >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4 Assessment Survey
      • Internal Assessment
      • 1st semester reflection
      • Review >
        • review worksheets
        • paper 3 Practice
    • DP Geo Y2 >
      • Sheard
      • Reviewing Year 1
    • DP History y2 >
      • Resources
Cold War in Africa
Picture
Questions to consider while studying about the Cold War in Africa:

​How did the Cold War affect the geography in Africa?
  • Which countries did the Soviet Union and/or the United States have interest in? why?
How did the Cold War affect the economics in Africa?
  • Did Africa benefit or suffer as a result of the Cold War?
How did the Cold War affect the political climate of the region?
  • How did the Cold War influence relationships in Africa?
What are current issues troubling the area that exists currently caused by the Cold War?
  • ​​​​​What social, political, and economic changes resulted from the Cold War?
​FEAR OF COMMUNISM
Fear of Communism haunted the white minority government of South Africa from the 1950's to the collapse of single party rule in Eastern Europe in 1989. South Africa, along with Egypt, were the first two countries on the continent to give rise to Communist parties - both in the 1920's. But the significance of this in domestic politics was only felt after the Second World War.

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 foreign policy and much of its domestic policy.

SUPPORT FROM WEST
The South African government's stand found support in the Portuguese colonial regimes of Angola and Mozambique, which hung on until 1975, and the white government of Ian Smith in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe), which only yielded to majority rule in 1980.

All these regimes equated political opposition with a desire to overthrow capitalism and nationalize the private sector. In this they were discreetly supported by most of Western Europe and America. The West was willing to turn a blind eye to institutionalized racism and minority rule government, if that meant keeping commercial and mining investments safe from nationalization.

The Zairean leader President Joseph Mobutu was similarly supported by the West for making a public stand against Communism, while at the same time he systematically stripped his country of its wealth and resources.

SOVIET SUPPORT
For its part the Soviet Union was happy to give military support to the governments of Angola and Mozambique and to the ANC. They had tried to achieve their goals of majority rule through peaceful means and failed. Now they had to contemplate using violent means.

Aside from military aid, the Soviet Union also offered a number of educational scholarships to young people, mainly in the former English and Portuguese territories.

But the Soviet Union gave little in the way of aid or trade. There was no great Soviet strategy for taking over Africa, and generally the Soviet Union was under informed about history, political structures and the needs of the countries it supported.

BELIEF IN SOCIALISM
The level of ideological commitment or interest in socialist doctrine varied among all the different governments and movements which received Soviet military aid. Their main aim was not socialist revolution, but to be free of military aggression from South Africa and see independence with majority rule throughout the continent. Had the West offered assistance, there would have been much less need to look to Moscow.

At another level the anti-capitalist, socialist outlook at the heart of communism was very attractive to people in a region where mineral and human resources had been so ruthlessly exploited for the sake of profit for the very few. But for many leaders, it made more sense to evolve an African form of socialism, drawing on African traditions than following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/12generic5.shtml
Picture
Picture
Here is a list of Soviet Communism inspired and allied countries in Africa. Some of these regimes changed sides throughout the period, most notably Egypt:
  1. Algeria
  2. Libya
  3. Egypt
  4. Mozambique
  5. Angola
  6. Ethiopia
  7. Somalia
  8. Benin
  9. Upper Volta
  10. Burkina Faso
  11. Guinea Bissau
  12. Sudan
  13. Burundi
  14. Sao Tome and Principe
  15. Niger
Picture
BRIEF Socialism in Africa
File Size: 285 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

ARTICLE Communism and Nationalism in Tropical Africa 1961
File Size: 1716 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

ARTICLE What the Communists left in Africa
File Size: 869 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Grade 7
    • Unit 1: How We Organize History
    • Unit 2: Early Human Communities
    • Unit 3: Ancient Meso-America
    • Unit 4: Ancient Japan
    • Unit 5: Ancient Greece
  • Grade 8
  • Grade 9
    • Unit 1: The French Revoltuion
  • Grade 10
    • Prologue >
      • Bias
      • Evaluating Sources
    • Unit 1: World War II >
      • Aftermath of WWI >
        • Causes of World War II
      • Causes of World War II >
        • Quickwrite #1: Power...
      • WWII pre-D Day
      • European Theater >
        • Topography
      • Pacific Theater >
        • Quickwrite #2: Dropping the bomb...
      • Geography: WWII
    • Unit 2: Cold War >
      • Post WWII >
        • quickwrite #3: When did it get so cold?
        • Cold War Map activity
        • Political Cartoons: Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan >
          • Cartoon Assignment
        • CNN Cold War Documentary >
          • Comrades video
          • Iron Curtain video
          • Marshall Plan Video
          • Berlin Video
          • Korea Video
          • Reds Video
          • After Stalin Video
          • Sputnik Video
          • The Wall Video
          • Cuba Video
          • Vietnam War Video
          • MAD Video
          • Make Love Not War Video
          • Red Spring Video
          • China Video
          • Detente Video
          • Good Guys, Bad Guys Video
          • Backyard Video
          • Freeze Video
          • Soldiers of God Video
          • Spies Video
          • Star Wars Video
          • The Wall Comes Down Video
          • Conclusions Video
      • Asia >
        • Korean War >
          • Korean War Video
        • Vietnam War >
          • Vietnam War Timeline
          • Vietnam War Video
          • Quickwrite #4: Images of the Vietnam War
        • Laos & Cambodia >
          • Refugee crisis
      • Latin America >
        • Country Brief
      • Africa >
        • Country Brief
      • Collapse of the Soviet Union >
        • Fall of the Soviet Union
      • Cold war summative assessment
    • 1st semester final exam
    • 1st semester reflection
    • Unit 3: Global Interdependence >
      • World Religions
      • Globalization
    • writing center >
      • Research Paper
  • Grade 11
    • DP Econ y1 >
      • External Assessments >
        • Assessment Strategies
      • Internal Assessment
      • Unit 1.1 - Microeconomics: Competitive Markets >
        • In the News
        • Committee Memorandum
        • Guns vs. Butter
        • Short Answer Questions
        • Worksheets
        • Higher Level
      • Unit 1.2 - Microeconomics: Elasticity >
        • In the News
        • Elasticity Questions
        • worksheets
      • Unit 1.3 - Microeconomics: Government Intervention >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 1.4 - Microeconomics: Market Failure >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Standard Level 1.5*
      • start Internal Assessment
      • Unit 1.5 - Microeconomics: Theory of the Firm & Market Structures (HL only) >
        • In the News
        • Backwards Test
        • Perfect Competition Questions
        • Worksheets
      • The Airline Industry Sucks
      • Unit 1 review
      • 1st semester reflection
      • Unit 2.1 - Macroeconomics: The Level of Overall Economic Activity >
        • In the News
        • Tale of Two Countries
        • Quickwrite: GDP
        • worksheets
        • Food for Thought
      • Unit 2.2 - Macroeconomics: Aggregate Demand & Aggregate Supply >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.3: Macroeconomic Objectives >
        • In the News
        • Inflation & unemployment
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.4 - Macroeconomics: Fiscal Policy >
        • In the News
        • Quickwrite: Money
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.5: Monetary Policy >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 2.6: Supply-Side Economics >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
    • DP Geo Y1 >
      • Geography Monkey
      • Intro Ibdp Geo
      • Course Structure
    • DP History y1
  • Grade 12
    • DP Econ y2 >
      • External Assessments >
        • In the News
        • Assessment Strategies
      • Unit 3.1: International Trade >
        • Worksheets
        • HL Comparative vs. Absolute Advantage Problem
      • Unit 3.2: Exchange Rates >
        • In the News
        • Exchange Rate Questions
        • worksheets
      • Unit 3.3: The Balance of Payments >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 3.4: Economic Integration >
        • united we fall documentary
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 3.5: Terms of Trade (HL only) >
        • In the News
        • IB Examiner
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.1: Economic Development >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.2: Measuring Development
      • Unit 4.3: The Role of Domestic Factors >
        • In the News
        • Questions
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.4: The Role of International Trade >
        • In the News
      • Unit 4.5: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4.6: The Roles of Foreign Aid & Multilateral Development Assistance >
        • In the News
      • Unit 4.7: The Role of International Debt >
        • In the News
      • Unit 4.8: The Balance Between Markets & Intervention >
        • In the News
        • worksheets
      • Unit 4 Assessment Survey
      • Internal Assessment
      • 1st semester reflection
      • Review >
        • review worksheets
        • paper 3 Practice
    • DP Geo Y2 >
      • Sheard
      • Reviewing Year 1
    • DP History y2 >
      • Resources