The Cold War in the Classroom by Barbara Christophe & Peter Gautschi & Robert Thorp

Author:Barbara Christophe & Peter Gautschi & Robert Thorp
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030119997
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The curriculum requires that ‘blame for the Cold War’ be taught and learnt through the presentation of different interpretations and differing points of view (ibid., 25). China, Cuba and Vietnam are given as case studies. The following section on ‘Independent Africa’ calls for comparisons to be drawn between the experiences of the Congo as ‘a tool of the Cold War’ whose legacy lives on into the present and the African socialism of Tanzania. The kinds of states and leaders that emerged are specified. This section ends with the way Africa became drawn into the Cold War, using Angola as an example. Here the USSR, USA, Cuba, China and South Africa became involved militarily (ibid., 27). The curriculum requires study of the denouement of the Angolan War in the context of the ending of the Cold War and implications for international and regional relationships. How then do textbooks represent this version of history, that gives more weight to the Cold War in Africa and its relationship to decolonisation than earlier versions had done?

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