USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Critics described President Eisenhower’s willingness to threaten nuclear war in the interest of maintaining peace as which of the following policies?
A
massive retalliation
B
containment
C
brinkmanship
D
covert
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Critics described President Eisenhower’s willingness to threaten nuclear war in the interest of maintaining peace as which of the following policies? publicly criticized the president’s policy of limited war. significantly reduce military spending.

Detailed explanation-2: -President Eisenhower’s willingness to threaten nuclear war to maintain peace worried some people. Critics called this brinkmanship-the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down-and argued that it was too dangerous.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eisenhower’s New Look national security policy. The New Look approach relied heavily on the capacity for a devastating assault with nuclear weapons-the strategy of massive retaliation-to fight Soviet military provocations, regardless of whether they involved nuclear weapons or not.

Detailed explanation-4: -The policy of massive retaliation was created during the Eisenhower Administration as part of its New Look strategy. It claimed that the U.S. could retaliate with disproportionate force to any attack by another nation.

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