When did the Angolan civil war break out?
Spring 1975
How did the USA help the FNLA?
$300,000 in covert funding b4 the civil war
$25 million in supplies and $16 million in arms
How did Cuba support the MPLA?
36,000 troops at the start of the war
12,000 troops by Jan 1976
Who won the Angolan civil war and who became leader?
MPLA in 1976
Agostinho Neto
Why did the USA not take much action in Angola?
Just pulled out of Vietnam, so would have been difficult to get public support.
It wasn’t much of a threat to the USA
USA didn’t want to align itself with the apartheid system of South Africa
Was the USA right to fear that Angola was a part of Soviet expansion?
No - Castro seemed to support Angola with no prompts from Moscow
How did the Angolan civil war undermine detente?
USA believed that soviets were acting against the interests of detente
Soviets convinced they were in line with detente.
Why did the Ethiopian war start?
Somalia tried to seize Ogaden - given to Ethiopia by British after WWII
Somalia invaded in July 1977
How many Cuban troops in Ethiopia?
15,009 by 1978
When did the Ethiopian war end and what was the consequence?
1978 - truce agreed and Somali troops retreated
- USA accused ussr of using Cuba to extend influence across Africa. This undermined detente.
Why was the ussr worried about the PDPA and Hafizullh Amin?
They feared that the new regime was alienating the Afghan people and that it might align with the USA
How did events in Iran influence the USA’s attitude to Afghanistan?
Feared it would collapse, making it vulnerable to leftist communist influences. Therefore the Soviet relations with Afghanistan assumed greater importance
When did carter announce an increase in the defence budget?
23 Jan 1980 - carter doctrine
What did carter do in response to invasion of Afghanistan
4 Jan 1980 - restrictions on Soviet fishing privileges
Ban on sale of high tech and strategic items to ussr
Embargo on grain sales - especially difficult as ussr had become reliant on USA grain since Helsinki accords in 1975
How do the invasion of Afghanistan affect US - Soviet relations?
Soviets took the view that USA used invasion as an excuse to dismantle detente, revive the arms race, and build up a position of strength in Persian gulf
Why were Soviets concerned with Afghanistan
Shared a border with adjoining Muslim areas in ussr
It was a socialist state aligned with ussr but they feared it would become USA ally which would increase their geo strategic power in the area.
Who was the leader of Chile?
Salvador Allende
- socialist
Reason for USA intervention in Chile?
American businesses had significant interests in Chile’s copper and silver mines
Nationalisation of mines and land distribution threatened this.
Therefore intervention to secure resources and money opportunities
When did the USA intervene in chile?
Throughout 1970s
What was us intervention in chile and what were the consequences?
CIA attempted to stage a coup to prevent Salvador coming to power
Influenced WB to not loan money to chile - inflation spiralled, industry declined, farming stagnated, unemployment rose
Military coup under Augusto Pinochet - oppression as Allende sympathisers killed. - major civil rights violations
Why did the USA intervene in Grenada?
1983
Fear that it would become a communist base
Who was the leader in Grenada?
Bernard coard
What did the USA intervention in Grenada involve?
7000 strong invasion force
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Widening Of The Cold War27
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Cooperation And Confrontation37
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