USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following is the best example of the “Ideological struggle” between Soviet Communism and Western Capitalism?
A
Overthrowing the Iranian Prime minister
B
The defense of West Berlin against Stalin
C
The failed revolution in Hungary in 1956
D
Sputnik, and the Space Race
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, or in other words capitalism against “communism”.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Bolshevist Marxism–Leninism, an ideology of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state to realise the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Detailed explanation-3: -Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Sino-Soviet split arose from the ideological clash between Soviet first secretary Khrushchev’s policies of De-Stalinisation and peaceful coexistence and Mao Zedong’s bellicose and Stalinist policies.

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