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East vs. West: The Cold War Rivalry and Nuclear Standoff

Explore the intense rivalry between East and West during the Cold War, marked by the formation of NATO in 1949 and the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Dive into nuclear strategies like MAD and brinkmanship that defined this era of high-stakes global conflict.

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East vs. West: The Cold War Rivalry and Nuclear Standoff

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  1. The Cold War East vs West

  2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949) • United States • Belgium • Britain • Canada • Denmark • France • Iceland • Italy • Luxemburg • Netherlands • Norway • Portugal • 1952: Greece & Turkey • 1955: West Germany • 1983: Spain

  3. Warsaw Pact (1955) • U. S. S. R. • Albania • Bulgaria • Czechoslovakia • East Germany • Hungary • Poland • Rumania

  4. ICBM - Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

  5. Nuclear Strategies • Brinkmanship - Pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome. • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) - Policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

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