“Militant Unity and Solidarity”: Cuba, North Korea, and the Cold War

Discussion of the Cuban-North Korean relationship in the 1970s as a way to analyze the Cold War from a global perspective.

The Source

In Monday’s post, I discussed a textual primary source that helps us understand the relationship between Cuba and North Korea in the 1960s. Their relationship complicates how we think about the Cold War and helps us get beyond seeing the Cold War as primarily an American-Soviet rivalry.

A discussion of how we can teach the end of the Cold War and the last decades of the twentieth century in world history.

29 May 2023

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An example of Vietnamese anticolonialism against French rule from 1937.

8 May 2023

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Discussion of the Cuban-North Korean relationship in the 1960s as a way to analyze the Cold War from a global perspective.