In the post Cold War era, proxy wars persisted as regional factions in the Balkans received support from external powers during the 1990s. The Middle East saw Iran and Saudi Arabia backing ...

of the Cold War. on the outskirts of Berlin. That was Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Harry Truman. to divide up the ...

During the Cold War (1947-1991), the U.S. and Russia avoid nuclear annihilation by waging "proxy wars," supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts. Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the ...

It was called the Cold War, as the two sides never directly fought. But they battled each other in different ways. Proxy wars were wars fought in or between other countries, with each side getting ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the ... in the Korean and Vietnam wars in the 1950s, 60s and 70s; hundreds of ...

Proxy wars, a phenomenon where ex­ternal powers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and advance their own strategic interests, have become a defining ...