Did The International Community Support Apartheid?
Did the international community support Apartheid?
Introduction
To a certain extent, international communities such as the United States supported Apartheid cause of the Cold War. The United States wanted to contain communism from spreading throughout the world but in 3 December 1989 the Cold War ended which resulted in the withdrawal of American supported for the South African government. Liberation movements in South Africa were no longer considered as a communist threat by the South African government.
In the 1950s due to communist influences, the United States supported Apartheid because it believed that if one country fell under communist influence, more countries were more likely to become communist due to the Domino theory. In Source F, the United States and the South African government had a partnership as the United States had supported Apartheid, selling military arms worth $112million to South Africa because it was a capitalist state. The United States government supported Apartheid despite the fact that it was a discriminatory system but American citizens were deeply concerned about the violence in South Africa, making them not support Americas partnership with South Africa stated in Source F.
International communities besides the United States did not support Apartheid as the communities saw the system as an unjust government …show more content…
Resolution 189 established on 13 November 1963 by the United Nations adopted sanctions to stop countries from supplying South African with petroleum. These sanctions had limited countries from having any interactions with South Africa culturally, academically and in sporting in order to demonstrate that they did no support South Africa’s racist government. The United Nations Centre Against Apartheid was later introduced in
Introduction
To a certain extent, international communities such as the United States supported Apartheid cause of the Cold War. The United States wanted to contain communism from spreading throughout the world but in 3 December 1989 the Cold War ended which resulted in the withdrawal of American supported for the South African government. Liberation movements in South Africa were no longer considered as a communist threat by the South African government.
In the 1950s due to communist influences, the United States supported Apartheid because it believed that if one country fell under communist influence, more countries were more likely to become communist due to the Domino theory. In Source F, the United States and the South African government had a partnership as the United States had supported Apartheid, selling military arms worth $112million to South Africa because it was a capitalist state. The United States government supported Apartheid despite the fact that it was a discriminatory system but American citizens were deeply concerned about the violence in South Africa, making them not support Americas partnership with South Africa stated in Source F.
International communities besides the United States did not support Apartheid as the communities saw the system as an unjust government …show more content…
Resolution 189 established on 13 November 1963 by the United Nations adopted sanctions to stop countries from supplying South African with petroleum. These sanctions had limited countries from having any interactions with South Africa culturally, academically and in sporting in order to demonstrate that they did no support South Africa’s racist government. The United Nations Centre Against Apartheid was later introduced in