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Which of the following countries benefited from a Cold War influence as it achieved greater independence?
Egypt
Biafra
India
Nigeria
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Egypt and India.
- Egypt (under Nasser) leveraged Cold War rivalry to get Soviet economic and military support (e.g., Aswan Dam, arms) and to push British/French influence out (Suez crisis).
- India used nonalignment to extract economic/technical and diplomatic backing from both superpowers while maintaining independence.
Biafra did not gain major Cold War backing, and Nigeria’s post‑independence course was less a product of superpower patronage than internal/colonial dynamics.
- Egypt (under Nasser) leveraged Cold War rivalry to get Soviet economic and military support (e.g., Aswan Dam, arms) and to push British/French influence out (Suez crisis).
- India used nonalignment to extract economic/technical and diplomatic backing from both superpowers while maintaining independence.
Biafra did not gain major Cold War backing, and Nigeria’s post‑independence course was less a product of superpower patronage than internal/colonial dynamics.
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