Cold War Pawns

What happened in Korea was only the beginning. Every country that hadn’t pledged allegiance or neutrality to one side or the other was in play. All that seemed to matter was how many countries you get on your side, whether that be capitalism or communism. And with Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact, an official document made with all of the Soviet’s “allies”, if you will, it was also the NATO versus the Warsaw Pact.
    There was no sense that world war was going to break out any time soon, but the feeling of tension of major conflict was always there. So when young, up and coming countries were created, The Soviet Union and the U.S. would use their respectable agencies to either infiltrate and/or support certain political groups, all just to gain control of a country. It’s all just to see who can get more players on their team, so when the time comes, each force has missiles coming from as many places as possible and from every direction.
    Decolonization in some places, with the addition of nationalist movements across the globe, gave opportunities for each side to do just that. From 1954 all the way into the late 70’s, The U.S. and the Soviet Union were in a constant behind the scene struggle in countries that went through political Revolution such as Israel, Egypt, Angola, The Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay, Panama, and most importantly of all, Cuba.