Summarize this- While in the West and in the Eastern Bloc the nuclear threat bred anxiety and hardened
political ideologies, in the developing world the Cold War was a covert (not openly
acknowledged) but deeply pervasive struggle. Here, East and West battled by proxy, turning
friends and allies abroad into Cold Warriors on their behalf. Across Africa, the struggle for
dominance between the forces of capitalism and communism sparked coups and revolutions, fuelled rivalries
with ‘aid and assistance’, and brought about political divisions through spying and ‘dirty tricks’. It was on these
distant battlefields that the Cold War was fought.