USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Policy of brinkmanship can be described as
A
appeasement to an aggressor nation.
B
diplomacy rather than war.
C
willingness to go to the very edge of all out war.
D
stopping the spread of communism.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In politics, brinkmanship is an approach in which a country pushes a situation extremely close to a dangerous point. Many considered the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia an example of brinkmanship; the accumulation of so many deadly weapons could have led to disaster.

Detailed explanation-3: -This policy came to be called “ massive retaliation.” “Brinkmanship” was the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down. Eisenhower used two concepts in international confrontations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Brinkmanship is a foreign policy used in the Cold War which is where a country would push a dangerous issue or event to the edge looking for the best outcome for there side. Brinkmanship was a term that was constantly used during the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union.

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