During the Cold War, how did the two ideologies communism and capitalism affect developing countries?

These countries were often dubbed the "Third World", meaning not involved in either the worlds of capitalism or communism. They occasionally became battlegrounds for the two economic systems, being used as pawns in battles between the two superpowers (ie Korea, Vietnam, etc). This led to many uprisings in states controlled by both the western powers and those controlled by the communist forces of the east. Additionally, the threat of nuclear annihilation loomed above even the most secluded and isolationist of small nations.

almost all countries that were world powers the communist countries, including Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, East Germany (not including Berlin), China, and other countries east of the iron curtain, were supported by the soviet union the capitalist countries, including United Kingdom, France, West Germany and Berlin, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Japan, South Korea, South, and other countries west of the iron curtain Vietnam, were supported by the US