IAS (Admin.) Mains Political Science (PSIR) Comparative Politics and International Relations-Arms Race and Cold War Study Material (Page 2 of 3)
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Arms Race: History, Nuclear Arms Race
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- Since dawn of humanity, mankind has been involved in warfare against each other.
- For waging warfare, the belligerents need weapons, preferably ones that are better than the other side.
- Warring parties have constantly been trying to improve their war fighting capacities, by acquiring better weapons and developing better strategies.
- An arms race however, is marked by a desire for quick procurement of deadly weaponry over a short period of time by two or other nation states.
- It is led by a desire for a superior military t…
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Arms Race and Cold War
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- Following World War II, the Cold War was a time of diplomatic instability between the Soviet Union and its satellite states (the Eastern European countries) and the US and its allies (the Western European countries) .
- Following World War II, the world was split into two power blocs, each controlled by two superpowers: The United States and the Soviet Union. the Soviet Union and the United States of America.
- The ideological conflict between the imperialist United States and the communist Soviet Union was the main focus of the two superpowers. Since there was no large-scale combat between the two sides, the word “Cold” was coined.
The Causes of the Cold War
- Allied countries (the United States, the Un…
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