THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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MAD ____ Mutually Assured Destruction
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Detente
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HUAC ____ House on un-American Activities
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Police State
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the Cold War, deterrence strategy was aimed mainly at preventing aggression by the hostile Communist power centers-the USSR and its allies, Communist China, and North Korea. In particular, the strategy was devised to prevent a nuclear attack by the USSR or China.
Detailed explanation-2: -mutual assured destruction, principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated. nuclear weapon.
Detailed explanation-3: -The primary application of this doctrine started during the Cold War (1940s to 1991), in which MAD was seen as helping to prevent any direct full-scale conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union while they engaged in smaller proxy wars around the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nuclear Deterrence. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union each built a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Soviet policy rested on the conviction that a nuclear war could be fought and won. The United States adopted nuclear deterrence, the credible threat of retaliation to forestall enemy attack.