WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
During the Cold War Era, many Asian and African nations followed a policy of nonalignment because they
A
had the same goals and needs as the Soviet Union
B
needed the natural resources of Western European nations
C
wished to receive aid from the Soviet Union and the United States
D
were afraid of losing their vote in the United Nations
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Many of the nations that opted to join the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War did so because they were poor, strategically unimportant, and ignored by the Free World.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although membership in the American party rose to about 75, 000 by 1938, following the Great Depression, many members left the party after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of 1939. Others left in 1956 after Nikita Khrushchev exposed some of Stalin’s crimes and Soviet forces invaded Hungary.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historians have identified several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War, including: tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.

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