HIST 1707 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mahatma Gandhi, Developed Country, Kwame Nkrumah
13 Apr 2013
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The berlin wall was taken down in november, 1989. It"s something we always refer to because it didn"t actually come down. They let people cross it, and people could climb on it and party on it. It was a revolution that ultimately resulted in the collapse of the soviet union. The end of the cold war had a profound effect across the world, especially in the colonial world. What happened was, with the end of the cold war, the colonies were no longer of interest to the superpowers. They lost their political appeal, and they found themselves essentially overnight irrelevant. They had no more funding and political support, and the rivalry was replaced with complete indifference. This abandonment of colonial interest is especially prominent in the horn of africa. As soon as the war ended, both sides dropped all support for ethiopia and somalia. The powers, no longer having to support the client war, turned their attentions elsewhere.
