HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)

9.2: The Cold War in the Developing World

• 9.2.1: "Wars of National Liberation"

  • International World History Project: Dr. Robert Guisepi's "The Vietnam War"

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• 9.2.2: Decolonization and Nation Building

  • Decolonization in the British Empire

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  • Stanford University: Dr. Frederick Cooper's "Citizenship between Empire and Nation: France and French Africa, 1945-1960"

    In this presentation, historian Dr. Frederick Cooper of New York University discusses France's changing political and social relationship with its colonial possessions in Africa following World War II. Dr. Cooper also focuses on France's efforts to maintain French cultural values and identities in these colonial regions despite resistance from locals who sought independence from the French international regime.
    

• 9.2.3: The Non-Aligned Nations

  • GCIS South Africa: "The Non-Aligned Movement: Description and History"

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  • Jawaharlal Nehru's "Speech at the Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955"

    In this speech at the 1955 Asian-African conference of newly independent nations, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru argues that developing nations should not ally with either the United States or the Soviet Union, because such military alliances will not benefit developing nations in the Nuclear Age. Instead, developing nations should work together and pursue an independent developmental path free from burdensome alliances with pro-Communist or anti-Communist countries.