The Cold War began after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, when the uneasy alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other started to fall apart. There were only four independent states: Liberia, de facto a US protectorate; Egypt, nominally independent but occupied by British troops; Ethiopia, eager to establish a close relationship with the United States; and white-ruled South Africa. The money secured the loyalty of Colonel Joseph-Dsir Mobutu (who later renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko), a ruthless, ambitious and venal chancer whom the CIA believed to be childish and easily led. The Cold War had two sides, the United States, and the Soviet Union, both of these countries took measures, including giving money, fighting proxy wars, building a wall, or building missiles to fight for their ideals. The Soviet Union, too, hoped to fill that power vacuum, posing as the patron and armourer of colonial liberation movements. Moscows doctrinal purists had dismissed Nasser as a radical nationalist in the mould of those military strongmen who held sway across South America. Ahmed Ben Bella, in power 1963 to 1965, leaned toward China. Angola During the Cold War: Background . Most socialist systems today are participatory democracies. Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. for the very few. Though often absent from retellings of the Cold War, the interventions and alliances conceived in Southern Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, had a profound and sometimes devastating impact. Idahosa, P.L.E. The Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Critical Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was hostile to Tour, so the African nation quickly turned to the Soviet Unionmaking it the Kremlin's first success story in Africa. [17] The involvement of the Soviets split the Congolese government and led to an impasse between Lumumba and conservative President Joseph Kasa-Vubu, who was anti-communist. Africans were losers in the Cold War. French Indochina. and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick. However, the African nationalist movement was led by the better educated young middle-class that had little exposure to communism or socialism. 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These are some of the communist countries during the Cold War era.. * Angola * * The Cuban troops and the Soviets supported Angola for their war on independence and in return Angola adopted communism. Some students were shocked by conditions in Moscow, which was summed up by one African visitor as having no cars, no cafes, no good clothes or good food. By 1948 Soviet-sponsored and -directed communists had consolidated their control of the governments of eastern and central Europe and suppressed all noncommunist political activity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. ", Aryeh Y. Yodfat, "The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa,", Diana L. Ohlbaum, "Ethiopia and the Construction of Soviet Identity, 1974-1991. [18], In the 1950s, Gamal Abdel Nasser began to follow an anti-imperialist policy that earned him enthusiastic support from the Communist government of the USSR. Soviets and Americans were not the only outside actors on the stage of decolonization. Had the West offered assistance, there would have been much less need to look to Moscow. But for many leaders, it made more sense to evolve an Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. However, the Kremlin was reluctant to send Soviet troops because of its fear of a major escalation with NATO powers. They had tried to achieve their goals of majority rule through peaceful means and failed. MI5 monitored nationalist movements, and trembled whenever it believed these movements might be penetrated by Soviet agents. SUPPORT FROM WEST 2d ed. Matusevich, Maxim. The Cold War, however, also pushed US policymakers in the opposite direction. Soon after dawn on 5 November 1956, British paratroopers drifted down on the El Gamil airfield near Port Said in northern Egypt. Perhaps the most influential anticolonial thinker of the time was Frantz Fanon, a professional psychiatrist and philosopher. Robert A. Scalapino, "Sino-Soviet Competition in Africa", Alessandro Iandolo, "The rise and fall of the Soviet Model of Development in West Africa, 195764. Africa-Soviet Union relations covers the diplomatic, political, military, and cultural relationships between the Soviet Union and Africa from the 1945 to 1991. Foreign interference became a hallmark of the past-World War II era, even its first months. Inevitably, South Africa was drawn into the conflict, because Cubans were using Angolan bases to train guerrilla units. But Nasser was an ideal ally in Khrushchevs new policy of challenging the west in Africa. In the 1980s the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia plunged into greater turmoil and the Soviet system itself was collapsing by 1990. Throughout the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union avoided direct military confrontation in Europe and engaged in actual combat operations only to keep allies from defecting to the other side or to overthrow them after they had done so. Goodman, Melvin A. Gorbachev and Soviet Policy in the Third World" (1990) . March 1, 2023, 6:08 PM. In 1945, Africa was controlled by the friends and clients of the United StatesBritain, France, Portugal, Belgium, and Spain. The success of International Communism in gaining nine stooge states in Africa by the beginning of 1967 is near spectacular if two factors are borne in mind. By 1965, Cuba became a fully communist country and developed close ties to the Soviet Union. period, it was the only government to do so under the same leader Until the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union showed very little interest in Africa. Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend. Throughout the ferocious Algerian War of Independence in the 1950s, Moscow provided military, technical and material assistance to the FLN, and trained hundreds of its military leaders in the USSR. The CIA wrote off Nkrumah as a vain opportunist and playboy, and in 1966 were believed to have been involved in a coup that toppled him from power. Without France, what would you be or do? This was the view of many French people, and of many of the 700,000 European settlers (colons) in Algeria who enjoyed the advantages of French citizenship. He emphasised that these links placed a burden of debt upon Cubans that they were duty-bound to repay.. ", Alvin Z. Rubinstein, "Lumumba University-Assessment.". A product of the Cold War, the Southeast Asia War (1961-1973) began with communist attempts to overthrow non-communist governments in the region. Algeria became a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and largely targeted its rhetoric towards the United States, rather than France. Under the leadership of Ahmed Skou Tour, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence in 1958 and immediately sought foreign aid. When we arrived on the Isla de la Juventud [Isle of Youth], we were taken to different rural schools, they were all close to plantations of limes, papayas and yams. Our Own Special Brand of Socialism: Algeria and the Contest of Modernities in the 1960s., Desai, Ram. The Soviets, on the other hand, were determined to maintain control of eastern Europe in order to safeguard against any possible renewed threat from Germany, and they were intent on spreading communism worldwide, largely for ideological reasons. Fanon was responsible for promoting from a socialist perspective the intersectionality of colonialism and racism, as well as the idea of popular struggles for African national liberation. Meanwhile, Japan and certain Western countries were becoming more economically independent. This bibliographical essay focuses on the Cold War crises in Africa. Nkrumah was a pan-Africanist the goals of an independent and united Africa took precedence over the socialist revolution. South Africa, along with Egypt, were the first two countries on the continent to give rise to Communist parties - both in the 1920's. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!: Reagans Berlin Speech, https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War, The National WWII Museum New Orleans - Cold Conflict, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - The Cold War, Cold War - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Cold War - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), China rips new US House committee on countering Beijing, Russia's sports exile persists 1 year after invading Ukraine, Norway official who spied for the Soviets has died in Moscow, 'It just rang': In crises, US-China hotline goes unanswered, helped overthrow a left-wing government in Guatemala (1954). The decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s resulted in several proxy Cold War confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over the dozens of newly independent, non-aligned nations. Without Soviet and Cuban weaponry, and without Cubas 50,000 troops, the MPLA would almost certainly not have beaten UNITA and the South African Defence Force at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in 1988. There, everyone was equal! The United States and the Soviet Union began developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, and in 1962 the Soviets began secretly installing missiles in Cuba that could be used to launch nuclear attacks on U.S. cities. [3], After 1953, the continent underwent a rapid process of decolonization, whereby nearly all the colonies became independent nations. In this period the Soviets unsuccessfully blockaded the Western-held sectors of West Berlin (194849); the United States and its European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a unified military command to resist the Soviet presence in Europe (1949); the Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead (1949), thus ending the American monopoly on the atomic bomb; the Chinese communists came to power in mainland China (1949); and the Soviet-supported communist government of North Korea invaded U.S.-supported South Korea in 1950, setting off an indecisive Korean War that lasted until 1953. It meant a return to the Cold War. But the crisis also hardened the Soviets determination never again to be humiliated by their military inferiority, and they began a buildup of both conventional and strategic forces that the United States was forced to match for the next 25 years. He still remembers the schools amphitheatre, where film screenings were held. In the early 1960s the KGB cultivated Kwame Nkrumah, charismatic first prime minister then president of independent Ghana, only to discover (by breaking Ghanaian wireless codes) that he and his cronies were squirrelling away Soviet subsidies. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. The West was willing to turn a blind eye to institutionalised racism and minority rule government, if that meant keeping commercial and mining investments safe from nationalisation. EAST German communist officer uniform NVA COLD WAR RELIC RARE. Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University was established in Moscow in 1960 to provide higher education to students from developing countries. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2004. The Soviets exploited such reactions, offering sympathy and friendship, and accusing the imperialists of slyly seeking to retain their power to exploit their subjects. ", Arthur J. Klinghoffer, "The Soviet Union and Angola," (Army War College, 1980), Omajuwa Igho Natufe, "The cold war and the Congo crisis, 1960-1961. The Cold War came down to some basic differences between the world-views of the United States and the Soviet Union. Cuba had already been providing low-level support to the MPLA since 1965, when Che Guevara was in the Congo, but from 1975, the game had changed. End of the World War II. Picture Information. Weaver, Harold. One way by which the Soviets could win friends in the continent, as well as spread the Marxist-Leninist gospel among its future leaders, was to offer scholarships for Africans to study at universities in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. Crisis is an early test of IMF's crisis management role and leads to first large burst of lending by IMF to the four countries involved. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces soldiers, however did not engage in combat, and after the overthrow of Castro's friend Ben Bella, Cuba cut back its involvement. The Second World War had given enormous impetus to the embryonic nationalist movements in British and French colonies. It is easy to romanticise the historic friendships that the USSR, Cuba and Yugoslavia offered African liberation movements and governments, as Calvert 22s Red Africa season seems to, especially with so much information about the era still locked in archives. There was a sense of freedom, of liberation, as palpable in the streets as in the Mozambicans we met, remembers anthropologist Nadine Wanono, then a student of French cultural ethnographer, Jean Rouch, with whom she travelled to Mozambique in 1978, to teach Super 8 film techniques to FRELIMOs post-independence government. The point was not lost on Soviet propagandists. In 1991, USSR implode and the 15 republics become independent states, marking therefore the end of the cold war. The level of ideological commitment or interest in socialist doctrine varied among all the different governments and movements which received Soviet military aid. London: Zed, 1986. In 1986 Gorbachev rejected the idea of a revolutionary takeover of the South African government, and advocated a negotiated settlement. United States participation in the Southeast Asia War resulted from the policy of "containment," which aimed to prevent communism from expanding beyond its early Cold War borders. ", Larry C. Napper, "The Arab Autumn of 1984: A Case Study of Soviet Middle East Diplomacy. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. The level of ideological commitment or interest in socialist doctrine varied among all the different governments and movements which received Soviet military aid. They were popular and well liked.. ", Guy de Carmoy, "France, Algeria, and the Soviet Penetration in the Mediterranean. The onset of the Cold War added a sense of urgency. ", Gebru Tareke, "The Ethiopia-Somalia war of 1977 revisited. Communist parties in these colonies were constantly under pressure by either the colonial government or a white-dominated regime. same time he systematically stripped his country of its wealth and resources. Millions died in these proxy wars throughout Africa; food production and distribution were disrupted, and regional famines followed. Cold War conflicts played havoc with African politics. FEAR OF COMMUNISM In the late 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. This meant, at least from the public pronouncement of leaders, their commitment to egalitarianism. "The Soviet Union and Angola.". The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This book presents an analysis of the scope and quality of a select number of African states that came to espouse Marxism-Leninism or scientific socialism during their heyday. Lumumba was taken captive and subsequently executed in 1961. The first appearances of communist ideas in Africa were introduced by European workers in newly industrializing colonies with a significant concentration of settlers. However, these alliances were made primarily because they offered material support to the movement or dominant party in a regime, rather than being based on a clear and consistent acceptance of the guiding ideology of either the Western or Communist partner. South Africa, along with Egypt, were the first two countries on the continent to give rise to Communist parties - both in the 1920's. same time he systematically stripped his country of its wealth and resources. The Americans and the British worried that Soviet domination in eastern Europe might be permanent. What is often referred to as Marxism-Leninism rejects participatory democracy in favor of a disciplined, vanguard party in which democracy is practiced only in the central leadership organs of the party. This book critically examines the relationship of the post-independence African state, popular classes, and development. Both superpowers had been wooing Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser first the US, which offered then withdrew financial support for the construction of an Aswan dam, then the Soviet Union, which sold Egypt large quantities of arms. In sub-Saharan Africa the colonial powers faced no major challenges until the late 1950s. Castro growled about betrayal, but acquiesced. The Nixon administration was working behind the scenes with Sadat to bolster his plans to send the Russians home, which they did in July 1972. By the mid-1980s, the communist powerhouse was facing an economic crisis, losing a war in Afghanistan and overstretched in Africa. Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend. By 1980, then, South Africa ruled by what Castro called a Fascist-Racist regime stood alone against the forces of African nationalism. But could they deliver a golden age for their followers? While this nation has a predominantly black population, for most of the 20th century it was ruled by a white African minority . ", Yahia Zoubir, "Soviet policy toward the Western Sahara conflict. Fidel Castro sent 300,000 Cuban troops to Africa to support fellow revolutionaries against Western imperialism. 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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. The 15 new states are: Russia Estonia Latvia The USSR and Cubas involvement in countries like Angola and Ethiopia has dark episodes too, and has been heavily criticised. Soon after, Mixinge became one of the tens of thousands of Africans to travel to Cuba for schooling. SOVIET SUPPORT With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence greatly diminished. Communist nations, dominated by the Soviet Union and China, withdraw from the global economic system. I was aware of participating in a historic moment for the country. It was waged mainly on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and lasted until 1991. In the liberation struggles, film was a tool not only to document ongoing struggles and spread propaganda, but to inspire a sense of post-colonial, national identity. The Kremlin supported Gizenga, but did not want to take the international risks involved in delivering material aid to the blockaded Orientale Province. [20], The relationship went sour within years after the death of Nasser, when the new president Anwar Sadat started re-orienting the country toward the West. This period also coincided with the time of the Cold War . NATO has renewed itself and re-united The communist governments of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union collapsed between 1989 and 1991. Why US foreign policy was more violent in south America or east Asia than in Europe during the cold war ? For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here. Abboud declared himself an enemy of communism and of the Soviet-supported Nasser. The authors contend that, in practice, the aspiring ideology did not provide a clear strategy for social transformation after colonialism. The Gizenga regime was crushed in early 1962. The struggle between superpowers The Cold War reached its peak in 1948-53. Maxim Matusevich, "Revisiting the Soviet Moment in Sub-Saharan Africa" History Compass. The first such confrontation occurred in the former . To gain a lasting presence on the continent. The years following the Second World War saw European empires lose their grasp on Africa. . Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. From the late 1950s, Africans seeking higher education went to a rapidly increasing number of destinations, both within Africa and overseas. Please subscribe or login. What were practiced were hybrid forms of socialism, including some that eclectically borrowed from Marxist-Leninist and Maoist theory. Still, after the crisis, the Soviets were determined not to be humiliated by their military inferiority again, and they began a buildup of conventional and strategic forces that the United States was forced to match for the next 25 years. After rejecting a Soviet proposal for a four-nation Marxist-Leninist confederation, the Somali government launched an offensive in July 1977 with the intent of capturing Ethiopias Ogaden region, starting the Ogaden War. Joseph Stalin considered Africa to be low priority and discouraged relationships with or studies of the continent. This was prudent: at this stage there was no knowing who would win the Cold War. By midnight, British and French troops had secured the canal zone and sparked fury from the United States and the Soviet Union. Drew, Allison. ", Ermarth, Fritz. The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing. It also involves a rejection of the free market and the private ownership of property. Joseph Stalin had a fleeting interest in claiming the former Italian colony of Tripolitania in modern-day Libya, but the NATO containment policy blocked those efforts. Paris sold Algeria French warplanes in 1968, looking to counterbalance the Soviet influence. [13], Algeria supported the Polisario Front, a left-wing movement supported by Moscow that battled for 10 years for control of Western Sahara from Morocco. Munslow, Barry, ed. It will not include, therefore, one of Africas greatest human dramas, the Nigerian civil war (19671970), because the two superpowers supported the federal government in Lagos. (2009) 7#5 pp 1259-1268. The signing of the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty followed in 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing. The Cuban mission was represented as a noble and selfless act of internationalist solidarity with a sister state whose hard-won liberty was under threat from reactionary and, above all, racist forces, says Christabelle Peters, the author of Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick. 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