The Cold War had a profound effect on the international spaces of the Third World, affecting many wars and their development in particular. U.S. and the USSR have been influential for helping governments and corporations align their ideologies to express their objectives. This led to more proxy wars, where the superpowers provided support to opposing sides in peripheral conflicts rather than in direct combat. In Vietnam, for example, the United States intervened aggressively to contain the ongoing expansion of communism, especially the protracted and devastating war. Similarly, the Soviet Union’s involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980s led to a protracted war, with great suffering and instability. Economically, the international centers of the Third World were increasingly forced to act along capitalist or socialist lines depending on their alignment with great powers Countries with the US. integrated in Latin America mostly used capitalist strategies, while some African countries followed socialist strategies with Soviet support of this external influence influenced their Economic strategies and developed reform strategies, once in a while through foreign resources on special closure. Some countries including India joined the Non-Cooperation Movement and tried to stay in the US. Or a faction of the Soviet Union but made a difficult transition to neutrality under intense geopolitical pressure from both sides. Overall, the Cold War legacy of the Third World includes a history of war, economic crisis and political division, which has led to lasting change and equilibrium.