THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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Question
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“We declare that however acute the ideological differences between the two systems-the socialist and the capitalist-we must solve questions in dispute among states not by war, but by peaceful negotiation.” This statement by Nikita Khrushchev in 1957 expressed the idea of
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massive retaliation
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peaceful coexistence
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de-Stalinization
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inevitability of the triumph of communism
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -During the Cold War, the United States was based upon capitalism and democracy while the Soviet Union was based upon communism and dictatorship.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, or in other words capitalism against “communism”.
Detailed explanation-3: -The western alliance, headed by the US, represented the ideology of liberal democracy and capitalism while the eastern alliance, headed by the Soviet Union, was committed to the ideology of socialism and communism. You have already studied these ideologies in Class XI. WHAT IS THE COLD WAR?
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