The History of the Cold War: Every Month
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See a map depiction of the alliances, major proxy wars, and shifting influences of the two superpowers during the Cold War.
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NOTES:
Not every proxy war was shown nor could every proxy war be shown.
Treaties were shown when they went into effect, not when signed.
Sources:
D.K. Atlas of World History
The Gilliam's War in Afghanistan video (for the Russian invasion): • [OUTDATED] The War in ...
HurricaneHunter03's Portuguese Colonial Wars: • Portuguese Colonial Wa...
HurricaneHunter03's Indochinese Wars (for the first war and Cambodia): • The Indochinese Wars -...
Ollie Bye’s Creation of India video: • The Creation of India ...
Past Works
Wikipedia
Yan Xishan's Chinese Civil War video: • The Chinese Civil War ...
Music: Clash Defiant by Kevin MacLeod
It's kind of scary thinking about the amount of times we were close to a nuclear war during this time period.
There is a tv show about one of the times we were close. Deutschland 83
Thanks again to Stanislav Petrov
We were. And we still are…
@@Julio974 A name everyone should know.
We're closer now.
Modern chinese and american ACTUAL leadership has no moral reservations of this kind, the men of the recent past had, both in US and the Soviet Union...
Thanks for the patience! Glad to be back.
NOTES:
- Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe) should be third world green from 1965 to 1978.
:D
:)
@@adfr3d470 thank you
You're welcome
Your welcome tigerstar
So how many coups do you want?
Nigeria, Argentina, and Turkey: Yes
countryball and satw?
well turkey had 2 military coups
@@kaan732 3 actualy, with Turkish military momerandum it would be 5
Source: Wikipedia
Pakistan : Ametaurs
Greece with 13 coups in 11 years and 23 changes in goverment: Amateurs!
I like how 3rd world country term is now used to mean poor and unstable countries. Although many are stable and rich, just didnt join sides in the cold war.
like brazil
its weird my country is labelled as first world. even south america is labelled as first world.
Third World, (Tiers Monde) is an expression developed by Alfred Sauvy to name poor countries in reference to the social situations during the french old regime, it's later Third World became synonym for "non aligned."
Switzerland is third world, while Pakistan is first world
@@CanalDoTim999 Brazil?? Stable and rich?? loool
Three corrections we've noticed:
- Somalia should be listed as Other from 1977 to 1991. Because of Soviet support of Ethiopia during the Ogaden War, they no longer aligned with the Soviets. They turned to a United States partnership instead. Though remained socialist
- New Zealand should be listed as Other starting in 1986 due to the country being suspended from ANZUS when it became a nuclear-free zone.
- The Iran-Iraq War isn't even shown
Ikr surprised the Iran Iraq war was not on here and the 6th day war
countryball and satw?
@@Redkodiak1994 this is every month 6 days war was less than 1 month
Man, I see you everywhere.
Israel is not shown as a nuclear power in this video
For anyone wondering why Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan are nuclear powers towards the end: They inherited Soviet missiles once they became independent. History Matters made a video on it so I suggest you watch that for more info.
citing history matters as a good source
@@duskpede5146 what ? you think he isn't ??
Oh geez, Lukashenko has NUKES?!?!
@@diranbodossian6061 All those countries no longer have any nukes, Russia took them back. Those countries probably neither have the codes to launch them nor the capacity to maintain them.
@@diranbodossian6061 they did for a couple months but America and other economically powerful nations got them to relinquish their nukes with good economic deals
Yugoslavia wasn't a soviet ally, it tried to maintain neutral relations with both sides and to trade with whom they can. Stalin even tried to assasinate Tito a few times, and Tito said that if he tries to assasinate Stalin once, he won't need to try again.
Tito was the one who betrayed stalin
sheesh bro dropped a cold line on Stalin 🥶
hence why yugoslavia was shown as other
@SovietVodyanoy1949Yugoslavia liberated itself from Germany all on its own during WW2, hence why they were independant during the Cold War and not a puppet dictatorship under the soviets
@@chadzahirshah2588Actually we got much help from the Red Army
The virgin superpower versus the chad non-aligned movement
Non-aligned movement was a joke. In reality most of the member countries were unofficial allies of one side.
@@krazownik3139 Imagine actually declaring allegiance instead of holding up the pretense of neutrality
@@krazownik3139 yeah but unofficial is good enough, it meant neither side could invade to bring communism or ‘democracy without being seen as the aggressor
@Debayan Bagchi india was non aligned, we gave both america and the soviets the middle finger after testing the atomic bomb.
@Debayan Bagchi india had just friendly ties with soviet because we had no choice as pak was with America , and USA and UK fully supported Pakistan that time , we had no other choice , and remember KGB killed our leader Lal bahadur shastri
for some reason I expected for this timelapse to go beyond 1991 and show NATO expanding into the former Warsaw Pact countries, the various changes in the Middle East, China's expanding influence, etc.
Well that's not anymore the cold war
That was the sequel
The cold war never truly ended. China simply took the USSR's place as the bulwark of communism
@@compatriot852 no I feel like it did bc the trade war is what marked the new one in my opinion
@@compatriot852 It did end.
Austria: *sipping tea*
Austria didn't do so well in WW1 and WW2, wise idea to sit WW3 out.
*kaffee
More like munching on a schnitzel
Switzerland is watching a film.
*It wasn't Me, it was ger-*
Really awesome video honestly, great job!
And thanks for using my video on the Portuguese Colonial War!
had to put it at half speed to notice all the changes each month, but still, excellent video, man. i'd imagine that research alone took forever
It's quite staggering how the Soviet Blitzkrieg into East Asia in the final days of WW2 is so overlooked when it played such a massive role in setting the tone of the Cold War and politics today. It essentially led to China's fall to Communism, the Korean War, and the ensuing US mindset that led to Vietnam and other interventions like Afganistan that proved to have disastrous consequences.
it also caused japans surrender
@EmperorTigerStar myself wouldn't be me without you! Also great job!
I really love the choice of music. It's constantly building up but never drops or releases, very very fitting
In Seychelles 1977, there is supposed to be a coup, but it didn’t show up.
Because Seychells is too small or forgotten
@Greater Somalia oh ok
man jt literally is there its the ssquare near madasgasacar also does it matter
I just realized EmperorTigerstar is probably named after “Tigerstar” from the warrior cats book series and isn’t made up like I thought.
Everyone who has touched those books makes that realization sometime. Have they gotten better?
@@procyon6370 I dunno, I was gonna read the series then I realized there was over 90 books and I just don’t have the patience to read them all.
I just found warriors when going down the TH-cam rabbit hole, something I definitely am interested in, just not patient enough to read.
I read the first five series. Things got stale after the first two.
Also tigerstar wanted power like an emperor so lol.
I love how a historical mapper could’ve got inspiration from Warriors
Cold War become Hot War as soon as missile start to dance on the sky
dont look now... iron dome in the middle east
Man, this brings back memories. Your original Cold War video was the second video I watched from you when I was just starting to teach myself geography.
Hi, I'm a bit surprised by some elements:
1) Pakistan & Israël not shown as Nuclear powers
2) France being in the same blue all along while it leaft the NATO's military integrated command from 1967 to 2009 (keeping good relations & formal alliance, but not full member of NATO per se). I think a moment of lighter blue would have been more appropriate for a part of the video
small critics, nothing problematic, & keep the good work
1. Pakistan got nukes in the 90s. Israel more than likely had nukes but it was never fully proven when they got them so I couldn’t pick a moment.
2. Too many shades of blue would have been difficult to tell apart for a lot of people.
France was de facto a full NATO member, in case of war France would had automatically rejoin the integrated command.
@@EmperorTigerstar Yes, Israel's nukes are vague, but you could've picked either the Vela event (1979), generally considered a joint South Africa-Israel air test, or at least the Vanunu program disclosure (1986)
@@EmperorTigerstar where was the military coup in France?
@@EmperorTigerstar Pakistan tested its nukes in the 90s but had the capability before. It was just waiting for India to test again so it would have justification to test its own nukes.
its pretty nice to see a remaster of this masterpiece
Yet another good video! I see that you put a lot of time in effort into remaking the Cold War by every month
Still quite a reminiscent & classical but also a more educational and enjoyable reboot
I quite miss these sometimes
Some errors that I've noticed:
• Between February 1958 and August 1958, Iraq 🇮🇶 and Jordan 🇯🇴 weren't supposed to have a border separating them, since both were under the Hashemite Arab Federation at the time, and basically, a single state (although the Iraqi 🇮🇶 part could've been shown blue, since it was a part of the Baghdad Pact, the Hashemite Arab Federation was composed of 2 sovereign states without someone controlling both);
• You forgot to label the Sand War between September 1963 and February 1964, this war between Morocco 🇲🇦 and Algeria 🇩🇿 was related to the Cold War;
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 (later the Republic of Zaire) should've been shown as an US ally (Blue and Green for being at the Non-Alligned movement) from November 1965 onwards, due to the extremely anti-communist dictatorship led by Mobutu Sese Seko that was backed by the CIA that the country was passing through;
• From March 1968 onwards, Indonesia 🇮🇩 should've been shown as an US ally, due to its extremely anti-communist policies from its then dictator Suharto, that would last until May 1998;
• From March 1970 onwards, the territories occupied by the Khmer Republic on modern-day Cambodia 🇰🇭 should have been shown as an US ally, since the Khmer Republic was an US-backed military dictatorship that fell to the genocidal Khmer Rouge on April 1975;
• You forgot to show the 1971 Bolivian coup d'état 🇧🇴 on August 1971;
• On multiple parts of this video before December 1971 (April 1953, October 1958, March 1969), you forgot to flash Bangladesh 🇧🇩 grey when a military coup happened in Pakistan 🇵🇰, since before that date, both were one country;
• On April 1974, you forgot to flash Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 grey, all the other Portuguese 🇵🇹 colonies were shown with a flash of grey;
• Mayotte 🇾🇹 was supposed to continue to be a part of France 🇫🇷 on July 1975, and not become a part of Comoros 🇰🇲;
• Nicaragua 🇳🇮 shouldn't have been shown as an US ally between July 1979 and January 1985, since the country was going through an "...Unitary socialist provisional government under a military junta..." at the time, this government led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front was backed by the Soviet Union during the Nicaraguan Revolution;
• Namibia 🇳🇦 should've joined the Non-Alligned Movement on September 1979, not on March 1990;
• The Iran-Iraq War 🇮🇷🇮🇶 should've been shown on September 1980 to August 1988;
• Senegal 🇸🇳 and The Gambia 🇬🇲 should've been shown as one single country between February 1982 and December 1989, due to both being under the Senegambia Confederation;
• On January 1986, a military coup happened in Lesotho 🇱🇸, you missed that.
Very well-made video about the cold war!
I'd love to see a video relating Ireland, like the 9 years war or something like that.
Awesome video Emperor
Releasing a cold war video in July, madness
It's rather cold where I am in the winter in Melbourne. It's snowing right now on some nearby hills.
Have you considered adding commentary to videos like this? It could be helpful to get some pointers of where to look or what is going on that isnt visible on a map. I love the detail you put in to these, it seems you really do your research.
Latin America throughout this hole video: Its complicated
Major flaw in this map. The European colonies were not part of NATO. NATO does not apply to any territory, integral or colonial south of the Tropic of Cancer. And even then Algeria was above the Tropic of Cancer and France asked for NATO help in suppressing Algerians because from France's point of view, Algeria was just another province of France. Despite this plea for help and Algeria being above the Tropic of Cancer the US declined because we didn't feel like it.
I Don't Think That A Flaw because If Emperortigerstar Did, It Would Look Like The Colony were Given Independence and Made intro Middle African Powers.
Every Masterpiece:
*Soviet-Afghan War*
Has it's Cheap Copy:
*USA Troops in Afghanistan*
Masterpieces:
Vietnam War
Rip off:
1979 Chinese invasion of Vietnam
Yeh, the Afghan-Soviet war is the masterpiece cuz the afghans managed to get down the USSR
@@edwinalexis593 Nah, that was the American-Afghan war. The Soviets were very successful in their campaign and managed to place an actual stable socialist government. The Americans then used Terrorists situated in Pakistan to attack and enslave Afghanistan.
@@mathskafunda4383soutc?
America vs Russia: a tense rivalry that played a major role shaping and defining the world in the 2nd half of the 20th Century, but which doesn't seem to have ended or has been slowly making a comeback for the past decade.
It has ended, but now it's vs China considering that Russia is very weak compared to the US.
Honestly the modern tension between Russia and the US is stupid but I guess elites in both countries still want to milk it for power.
First off, it's America vs Soviets.
Second, no one outside of leftover political elites, short-sighted warhawks, and dumb sheep who watch mainstream media on both sides still think a backwater with nukes like Russia is somehow still the main rival of the US since the fall of the Soviet Union.
@@2hotflavored666 Russia is still 2nd on GFP lol
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 It wasn't America vs "Soviets", It was America vs Russia. You're naivë if you actually think that the USSR was about the "Soviets" and not Greater Russia/Russian Empire in disguise. Here's a fun fact from someone who lives in an ex USSR country: The Russians absolutely dominated minorities like us, and the policy of russification that was started by the Russian Empire? It still continued under the "Soviets", (still Russians) and if we haven't gotten our independence for another 2-3 decades, *our language and culture would've been completely wiped out, replaced by Russian.* It's hilarious how naivë people like you still exist. "Soviets" get out of here.
Egypt was pretty much fully in US camp when they signed the Camp David accords in 1979.
Probably one of his best videos yet!
This was such a freaky time to live through, and technically I got only the tail end of it! Only, we didn't know that was true at the time. I remember hearing all the horror stories of how INSANELY hard it was to get over the Berlin Wall...and how many people tried anyway. I heard in school about how the Soviet citizens had to stand in bread lines, and suddenly realising they were just people too and feeling sorry for them. I remember watching one of the big meetings between Reagan and Gorbechev on TV, when I was a kid, and I remember how songs about how we might all die tomorrow in a firey armageddon...could be happy little pop tunes and almost hit the top of the charts! I also remember watching the Olympics opening ceremonies on TV, and the first time ONE Germany marched in, with ONE flag. Just one. And it suddenly hit me.
Last but not least, I still have a globe from my school days, that has the U.S.S.R. and all the Communist Bloc countries still on it, with their Cold War names. It's gone from normal, to outdated, to EMBARRASINGLY outdated, to kinda cool because it's a historical thing. :)
Sidenote but: Did any other oldsters pause on the exact month and year you were born, to really look at and soak in what the world looked like at that time? I did.
1:04 You forgot to color bangladesh in the coup
It takes some Mad skills to make a Mad collaboration project
Cool vid emperor
Good job. Now you might have to do one for the Cold War II we are in today.
There is so much going on here month by month, I was rewinding constantly. "When did South Africa become a nuclear power?" "Did Turkey have another military coup?" "Ah, that's why the USSR intervened in Afghanistan; they were neighbors." "...When did South Africa stop being a nuclear power?"
this is better than my schools history class
What do you use for this map? like website or download.
You know ther are the awesome time-lapse maps of nuclear tests someone should make a map like that but with orbiatl rocket launches instead.
Baltics are always oversimplified for 1990-1991. Latvia and Lithuania weren't any more free than Estonia was during that period.
[FACTS] India was the 1st largest NAM country with a nuclear weapons. Together with Pakistan.
For those wondering why Namibia was listed separately from South Africa prior to March 1990, it's because although it was governed as part of South Africa, it was never *officially* annexed (although it should've been changed to light-green in 1966, as that's when the UN took direct controll).
love ur mapping
Cold war in a few sentences
The world lives at daggers drawn in a cold war.
With the Cold War almost over, the talks were a mere formality.
Throughout the Cold War, the Allies asserted their right to move freely between the two Berlins.
With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.
That was 4 sentences
@@angusb99 got me
Is the Yom Kippur War missing in ‘73? It’s a pretty major war and was important for the soviets
I think that and the Six Day War just happened to be too short to be included in a timelapse based on monthly changes, even though both were important for the technology and tactics on display as well as for the geopolitics of the region.
@@fyeahusa The Yom Kippur War was a month long and had a serious amount of soviet backing compared to the 6 day war tbf
@@Josephpesoj Who were the soviets backing in the Yom Kippur War? And are the Russians enemies with Israel because of Israel’s direct ties to the US?
@@alec8138 The soviets were heavily backing the arab states, they equiped them with quite good tanks for the time as well as sent advisors. There were reports of soviet soldiers also fighting however those are questionable. The biggest thing they did was to provide SAM systems that hampered the Israeli air capabilities significantly resulting in huge losses for the Israeli airforce. The reasoning is more to ally the arab nations than to kill Israel. A lot of Israeli's ties to the US only really began after the 6 day war so were relatively recent at this point. It's a really interesting conflict and worth looking into!
@@Josephpesoj Were both to kill Israel (To ensure there was no more western influence on mid east) and to have arabs as ally resulting in the entire region being under soviet influence.
Isn't required to say what was the result, I don't like too much ( ( that state ) ) but they really knows how to fight, was one of the major humilliations for the soviets, cuz while the US had to move from the other side of the world to get to Vietnam and the logistics itself were a huge challenge, the soviets and their allies didn't had that problem and also were surrounding the israelies.
you should've added a text box that says major events are than wars but good video anyways
Very cool video.
"Is it true that Stalin collects jokes with and about himself?"
"Yes it is true, but he also collects the people who make them"
...
I wouldn't call the Falklands War a proxy war. Yes, the UK received help from United States, but Argentina didn't accept help from the USSR or another communist country
What does the cross hatching mean? Is it defacto/dejure or just conflict, or what?
It means 2 at once so like neutrally aligned to the US is Brazil thru out this video
Pretty cool video, although there are a few things to note:
- There probably should have been a color for allies of the USSR that weren't necessarily Communist (such as Algeria from 1962).
- As mentioned by a below comment, Somalia should be listed as Second World Other from 1987.
Surprised to see that the Kuomintang managed to hold their resistence on the Mainland for so long
Surprised that they lost in the first place
If he hadn't lost, Vietnam and North Korea would not have been communist. China will be an ally of the United States. The concept of the four policemen of the United Nations is China, the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. The United States has promoted him to the five permanent members of the United Nations.
You should be surprised at how quickly their situation collapsed.
Impressive how much time did you spent on it?
Sorry for being nitpicky, but why is Rhodesia still shown as a nato member after udi i. 1965?
What's the relevancy of showing OPEC here?
I didn’t realise Russia broke hard after the Cold War with independent Sakha, Tuva, Udmurtia etc
before treaty of federation was signed, they simply did not agree to the Russian Federation before March 1992.
i wanna point out something out here, in Peru a pro soviet dictatorship took over betwen 1968 and 1975 so the blue lines are incorrect
they were elected by the people, and then US invaded, just correcting tgis small part
@@76456 the us never invaded Perú that was some Island in the carribean
@@battleshippotemkin4633 Paraguai, Bolivia, Haiti. gonna go searching on Peru. Ok it was related to invasion of Panama
Thank you for making this video!
Why is Yugoslavia half green half red, Tito litterally made Non-aligned mouvement in Belgrade
How is Finland western block? We literally had an mutually assistance pact that other Warsaw Pact members had until 1991. (yya sopimus, finlandization, treaty of 1948 finland soviet)
Maybe it's a cultural thing or about economical system? I had the same question as you.
@@karvainenhedelma1918 We were mostly neutral, with some deals to ussr
I am aware of yya, but was wondering that maybe they consider cultural leanings and economic system more important than one or two deals
@@karvainenhedelma1918 We had important economic relations with ussr, from the war reperations that started our economy to the huge market crises that happened after ussr collapsed.
And this video isn't about culture, it's about politics and economy. Tigerstar just didn't bother researching about us.
Trading and economic systems are different things. You do realise that Finland was and still is a capitalist country? I'm not denying the importance of war reparations to the Finnish economy, but it's not same as Finnish economic system.
How do you know something is or isn't about culture? Is there something in the video that shows it or...?
December 1991:
The Soviet Union: *Ight imma head out*
amazing map
You should do a molossia one
Why was the coup in France in 1958 not shown?
In Algeria*
"Cold war is a mind game played by two to five players, known as playees; each turn is a day, where you have to deal with your enemies by diplomacy or start a nuclear war."
-Own quote
What if South Africa kept his own nuclear and instead Russia soviet send nuclear to Angola and Mozambique and started nuclear war and also happens on Cuba?
Technically there shouldn't be a border between South Africa and Namibia until 1990, right? Namibia only became an independent country in 1990, breaking away from South Africa.
Very cool
Micronesia and other micro states be like: I could change the world!
Iran war be like: am I a *peace* to you?
Very good
I love this channel❤️
Me at 4:40 God, please don't break this time, please
It will be pretty ironic if 50 years from now we end up having videos on the ''2nd Cold War'' every month (US vs China).
Seems pretty inevitable at this point
It may be happening soon...
*_Taiwan_*
that's gonna be cool i guess...
Nah, China has way to many issues
@@alexanderbezumov3531 Didn't the USA and USSR have many issues during the Cold War?
Why is a part of Russia cut into at the end?
China: I want Tibet.
Tibet until 1960: Are you sure about that?
Do 7th Grade Drama: Every hour
The global chess
what is the program to make the map?
Can you make history of asia every year?
One error: Somalia should be shown with the same colors as Yugoslavia from November 1977 to December 1990. This is because the USSR supported Ethiopia in the Ogaden War, and Somalia aligned itself with China instead of the Soviet Union given the Sino-Soviet split. Somalia cut ties with the USSR in the Ogaden War
Except...it wasn't China
during the Ogaden War they were supported by the United States
@@wdwfanatic1394 The US did support Somalia during the Ogaden War, and it later adopted Somalia as an ally to counter USSR. In the context of the Sino-Soviet split however, Somalia remained communist until December 1990. Somalia aligned itself with China as China and the USSR competed for influence in the communist world, and Somalia cut ties with the USSR in 1977
A few questions just because I'm curious:
1. How exactly did you define an "ally" of the US and the USSR? I'm curious as to why a country like Ireland isn't an ally of the US but an other first world nation for example.
2. Why is Austria consistently a part of the third world when other European countries like Switzerland are labeled as an other first world nation?
3. Why did you show the individual republics in the Russian Federation at the very end? Is that just because the Russian Federation didn't form immediately after the USSR fell or due to something else?
Amazing video as always. Been watching for like 7-8 years now and you continue to be amazing. I hope you don't think I'm being judgmental or nitpicking your work or whatever; I am asking these questions to expand my own knowledge on the subject
Third World in Cold war is Neither allied to USA or USSR
1. Allies are based off of military treaty agreements.
2. The first, second, and third world had conventional definitions. For the first world it was the hardest to define so it was just a list of countries and Austria was not included. Plus they had forced neutrality by treaty which would solidly put them in the third world camp.
@@LuisAldamiz correct
@@LuisAldamiz and India has military agreement with soviet union but it still in third world
@@LuisAldamiz yeah it was friendship treaty not necessarily defense only
0:21-4:58
holy crap i just realized my dad was 16 when the cold war ended
The map is highly problematic becuase there was much nuance in alignments. Syria was a more reliable Soviet ally than Romania. Greece and Turkey were NATO but they disliked each other much more than they disliked the Soviets etc.
Please don't get rid of the earlier version I like how that version showed late 1945
The advance of Castro guerrilla in 1958 was quite accurate!!
Would be nice to highlight the most important events happened during the war
"Wretched and abundant,
Oppressed and powerful,
Weak and mighty,
Mother Russia!"
-Nikolay Nekrasov
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strengh
-1984
No Forest Brothers war? It was essentially the Soviet Union's Vietnam in the Baltics with thousands of casualties lasting for years and inhibiting the Soviet's efforts in the region.
I recommend using spotted/dash marks across the Baltics to represent the war going on in the region.
I don't think that's a proxy war so it makes sense it wasn't written(though I don't know since I don't know anything about that war), and this video doesn't show internal conflict on the map
@@firecreeper2249 The UK, US, and other Western powers were supporting the resistance fighters. They held a lot of territory and
It's also not internal, because the war was essentially a continuation of the Soviets invasion and occupation of the Baltics in WW2 and the governments were still in exile.
@@compatriot852 what I meant by internal is that unless a state is proclaimed or a territory is annexed this video won't show it. it's not really a rule that relies on historical facts or a rule at all, it's just a thing that I've observed mappers do to save time.
though I would it to be shown anyways
lol
@@firecreeper2249 in 1949 Lithuania re-re-re declared independence since partisans were basically in control of all of Lithuania. I think that it should be marked in the video some how.
Couple of things you missed:
1. Wouldn't it make more sense to list China as in the Western Bloc from 1961 to 1989 and Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979?
2. Central and South America were not as "non-aligned" during the Cold War as some make them out to be. The Rio Treaty was signed in 1947 and was made effective in 1948, so most of Central and South America should at least be blue from 1948.
3. A lot of the Middle East has nothing despite the Arab Cold War.
China was definitely not western bloc after the sino soviet split even with the normalizing of relations in 1972
@@Ducky27_ Why do you say that?
@@danielbuddenmusic1502 Normalizing relations doesnt mean your on the same side, just recently the US opened an embassy in Cuba but you wouldn't call Cuba part of the western world
@@Ducky27_ I know, but that's not all of what happened with China. The US and China were generally on the same side during wars, notably in the Third Indochina War.
You forgot to cross the Warsaw Pact.
Why aren't Ireland and Switzerland put in the green "other" category or half filled like South America? They were both neutral, even if they were a bit more aligned with Nato
Correct south america should be light green
@@ShubhamMishrabroExcept in some periods like Argentina in 1976-1983 where they would be blue
Choose Non-Aligned: It's more fun! Besides, war really bites!
yes
Now i understand that many civil wars are actully superpowers wars, but how can we discribe the Syrian, Yemen, Lybian civil wars? Who is fighting who??? I really need to understand :(