Examples of proxy war in the following topics:
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- The costs of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as its numerous proxy wars, were extensive.
- The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs today.
- In addition to the loss of life by uniformed soldiers, millions died in the superpowers' proxy wars around the globe, most notably in Southeast Asia.
- Many of the proxy wars and subsidies for local conflicts ended along with the Cold War, and the incidence of interstate, ethnic, and revolutionary wars, as well as refugee and displaced persons crises, has declined somewhat in the post-Cold War years.
- The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs.
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- The United States and Soviet Union eventually emerged as the two major superpowers after World War II.
- World War II had served to enhance U.S. global power.
- By 1947, the United States took the lead in containing Soviet expansion in the Cold War.
- Additionally, much of the conflict between the superpowers was fought in "proxy wars," which more often than not involved issues more complex than the standard Cold War oppositions.
- For example, the Vietnam War was an example of a proxy war.
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- The 1970s and 80s were marked by the continuation of the Cold War and its proxy wars around the world, as well as a rise in both conservatism and liberal social movements at home.
- As the war in Vietnam raged on, Americans were horrified to hear of atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers.
- The 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers revealed the true nature of the war to an increasingly disapproving and disenchanted public.
- Secretary of State Henry Kissinger eventually drafted a peace treaty with North Vietnam, and, after handing over responsibility for the war to South Vietnam, the United States withdrew its troops in 1973.
- Cold War tensions slowly began to ease beginning in the mid-1980s.
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- He called upon the nations of the world to join together and fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."
- Kennedy's foreign policy was dominated by American confrontations with the Soviet Union, manifested by proxy wars in the early stage of the Cold War and coming to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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- Bleeding Kansas, or the Border War, was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Soilers and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements.
- As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States.
- On January 29, 1861, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state, less than three months before the Battle of Fort Sumter that began the Civil War.
- Politics in the region began to resemble a civil war rather than democratic balloting.
- Explain why Bleeding Kansas is considered a precursor to the Civil War
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- In addition to inheriting the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, President Obama's foreign policy efforts included relations with Syria, Israel, and Cuba.
- In addition to the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, Obama's second term has been marked by the Iran Deal, the Syrian Civil War, support of Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the easing of tensions with Cuba.
- The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria in which with international interventions have taken place.
- All sides receive substantial support from foreign players, leading many to label the conflict a proxy war waged by the regional and world major powers.
- On October 18, 2011, during the early stages of the Syrian Civil War, Obama said that President "Assad must go" for the sake of the Syrian people.
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- Origins of the Cold War goes back to events preceding the Second World War, and even the Russian Revolution of 1917, which underlay pre–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union, western European countries and the United States.
- The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945.
- With the victory of the communist side in the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950–53), the conflict expanded.
- Many feared an escalation into a general war with Communist China, and even nuclear war.
- However, because of the American policy of containment, the Cold War saw several "proxy wars," such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
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- Following World War II, the United States emerged as one of the two dominant superpowers, the USSR being the other.
- Indeed, the threat of mutually assured destruction prevented both powers from going too far, and resulted in proxy wars, especially in Korea and Vietnam, in which the two sides did not directly confront each other.
- Within the United States, the Cold War prompted concerns about Communist influence.
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American economy grew dramatically in the post-war period, expanding at a rate
of 3.5% per annum.
- The post-World War II prosperity did not extend to everyone.
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- The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue.
- The League of Nations failed to prevent World War II (1939–1945).
- The UN also assisted with two decolonization programs during the Cold War.
- With the decline of the Soviet Union and the advent of perestroika, the Soviet Union drastically decreased its military and economic support for a number of "proxy" civil wars around the globe.
- A number of missions were designed to end civil wars in which competing sides had been sponsored by Cold War players.
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- In 1827, The Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations formed as a proxy of the united crafts in Philadelphia with the primary goal of reducing the 12-hour work day.
- As German and Irish immigrants poured into the United States in the decades preceding the Civil War, native-born laborers found themselves competing for jobs with new arrivals who were exploited into working longer hours for less pay.