COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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summit diplomacy
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the SALT negotiations
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the U-2 incident
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Nixon’s policies toward the U.S.S.R. and China
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the height of the cold war, as critics of the Eisenhower administration complained about the growing “missile gap, ” the United States secretly gathered data on Soviet missile capabilities through photographs obtained from U-2 reconnaissance plane overflights of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The Cold War thaw was the gradual de-escalation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. The thaw began with the death of Stalin in 1953. Khrushchev took over and relaxed some of the repressive practices of Stalin.
Detailed explanation-3: -The period that followed Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953 is commonly known as “the Thaw, ” a time of limited political and cultural liberalization. Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, embarked on a tumultuous program of reform that included de-Stalinization, the explicit repudiation of certain aspects of Stalinism.
Detailed explanation-4: -The original consensus about the cause of the U-2 incident was that the spy plane had been shot down by one of a salvo of 14 Soviet SA-2 missiles.