The Areas of Tensions during the Cold War

• The Cold War served as a source of tension in different areas in Asia, Africa and Latin America
• one of the areas of tensions was in Korea
• After the defeat of Japan in 1945, the Russians occupied the northern part of Korea and US America occupied the Southern part of Korea.
• Both the USA and the USSR competed to expand their ideologies on their occupations led to the Korean War of 1950-53.