How did the cold war and the soviet union change world development?

In Sociological terms, i was wondering how the cold war effected the third world and how it also increased the economic and political gap between the 1st and 2nd world countries from the 3rd world countries.





Thanks|||To be it simply (thesis statement hint hint), the Cold War negatively effected Third World countries because of war by proxy (i.e. Afghanistan, Egypt/Israel, Iran/Iraq and Vietnam), a "us or them" mentality in regards to aid, and a large number of cheap munitions sold to developing nations (Africa)|||Read stuff by Talcott Parsons





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