Allies of Ethiopia saw this as a huge threat and helped out. North Korea, Cuba, and the Soviet Union supported Mariam and his troops by giving Ethiopia dozens helicopter pilots, thousands of soldiers, weapons and military aid. Finally, after thirteen long, bloody months, Ethiopia (with help from its allies) gained back control over the Ogaden, and the Ogaden war was finally over.
This site provides information about the aftermath of the Cold War in Ethiopia. The site is unbiased because it encompasses the war from different perspectives.
This website provides details about the political relationship between the United States and Chile during and after the Cold War. The growing presence of the Marxist left meant a sharp increase in anti-American sentiment in Chilean public opinion, a sentiment that was fueled by opposition to the United States presence in Vietnam, the United States conflict with Cuba, and increased United States intervention in domestic Chilean politics.
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. Of these, more than 58,000 died or remain missing, and 300,000
others were wounded
$140 billion on the war
By 1961, guerrilla warfare was widespread in South Vietnam.
Communist-led troops of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly
referred to as Vietcong, were initiating hundreds of terrorist and small unit attacks per
month
1974 - Haile Selassie overthrown in military coup. General Teferi Benti becomes head of state.
1975 - Haile Selassie dies in mysterious circumstances while in custody.
1977 - Benti killed and replaced by Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam.
1977-79 - Thousands of government opponents die in "Red Terror" orchestrated by Mengistu; collectivisation of agriculture begins; Tigrayan People's Liberation Front launches war for regional autonomy.
1977 - Somalia invades Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
1978 - Somali forces defeated with massive help from the Soviet Union and Cuba.
The indiscriminate partition brought different ethnic groups (tribes) under one or more colonial power. This situation disrupted the political development of these societies; furthermore, ethnic groups were fragmented.
The horn of Africa has been a restive region for centuries. The region has been the scene of long lasting internecine conflicts. One of the most enduring and violent of those regional conflicts is the Ogaden conflict.
Families were forcibly separated into two or more groups; each group under a colonial power spoke a different European language.
. In northern Ethiopia, villagers still point out sites of forts, churches and monasteries destroyed by Gurey as if his military escapades happened just two or three decades ago.