USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The tactic was supposed to isolate the Soviet Union so that communism would not spread but would collapse in on itself. To enforce the tactic, the Americans made alliances with many countries that were considered to be vulnerable to the Soviets’ sphere of influence.

Detailed explanation-2: -brinkmanship, foreign policy practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other. The technique is characterized by aggressive risk-taking policy choices that court potential disaster.

Detailed explanation-3: -Brinkmanship was a term that was constantly used during the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union. An example of the policy of Brinkmanship was in 1962 when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. This nearly brought the Soviet Union and the United States to a nuclear war.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term brinkmanship was coined by Dwight Eisenhower’s Democratic opponent in both of his elections, Adlai Stevenson, who dared to mock Secretary of State John Foster Dulles when he celebrated the principle of pushing things to the brink.

Detailed explanation-5: -The brinkmanship was the US policy under President Eisenhower to go into nuclear war in order to prevent the spread of communism.