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The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.The United States, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Western European countries and other allies represented the "First World", while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and their allies represented the "Second World".
The terms First World, Second World, and Third World were originally used to divide the world's nations into three categories. The complete overthrow of the pre–World War II status quo left two superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union) vying for ultimate global supremacy, a struggle known as the Cold War. They created two camps ...
The "three worlds" of the Cold War era, as of the period between 30 April and 24 June 1975. Neutral and non-aligned countries shown in grey.. Third-worldism is a political concept and ideology that emerged in the late 1940s or early 1950s during the Cold War and tried to generate unity among the nations that did not want to take sides between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Third World is a Jamaican reggae fusion band formed in 1973. Their sound is influenced by soul , funk and disco . Although it has undergone several line-up changes, Stephen "Cat" Coore and Richard Daley have been constant members.
The Third World is a term used originally to describe the nations not aligned with either the First World or the Second World regardless of development, though the more common, contemporary use denotes the developing countries of Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Maoism–Third Worldism (MTW) is a broad tendency which is mainly concerned with the infusion and synthesis of Marxism—particularly of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist persuasion—with concepts of non-Marxist Third Worldism, namely dependency theory and world-systems theory. There is no general consensus on part of Maoist–Third Worldists as ...
Kemalism can very arguably be added to the list, [4] [5] as it appeared before the notion of Third World was created in post-World War II, it added populism to the equation (something not all Third World socialists did; Nasser and Nkrumah, for example, did) and Turkey is more developed than the typical notion of a Third World country, but as it ...
The Third World comprises China, India, the countries of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the other countries of Asia. [ 2 ] As political science , the Three Worlds Theory is a Maoist interpretation and geopolitical reformulation of international relations.