This promise was broken when the United States entered the war after the Zimmermann Telegram. This was "a war for empire" to control vast raw materials in Africa and other colonized areas, according to the contemporary historian and civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois. [67]

After the KMT lost the civil war with the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, ... Chen Lifu, a CC Clique member in the KMT, said "Communism originated from Soviet imperialism, which has encroached on our country." It was also noted that "the white bear of the North Pole is known for its viciousness and cruelty".

In the late fifties, Syria and Egypt dared to entertain the revolutionary dream of uniting against Western imperialism, now known as the United Arab Republic (UAR). A notion so threatening it sent shockwaves across board and war rooms alike. ... faced off against an armed insurrection that quickly escalated into near-civil war. Months of urban ...

The Cambodian Civil War ... the North Vietnamese leaders declared that all communist states should join forces against "American imperialism." [75] Indeed, the issue of Vietnamese versus Chinese hegemony over Indochina greatly influenced the attitude Hanoi adopted towards Moscow in the early and mid-1970s. During the Cambodian civil war, the ...

A backlash against imperialism; The 1953 Iranian coup d'état; A rise in expectations created by the 1973 oil revenue ... The prospect of a fall into communism and a "second China" (after Mao Zedong won the Chinese Civil War) terrified the Dulles brothers. Operation Ajax was born, in which the only democratic government Iran ever had was ...