Cold War Era in World Politics Test - 3

Cuba had received diplomatic and financial support from the Soviet Union and Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union decided to convert Cuba into a Russian military base. In September 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments began to build military and missile bases in Cuba, from which the Soviet Union could have the ability to strike most of the continental United States.

West Germany joined NATO in 1955, with unification of East Germany in 1990 it became Germany. Czech Republic became member of NATO in 1999. France is the founding member of NATO

Various treaties were signed by two superpowers during the Cold War :
(i) Limited Test Ban Treaty,1963 (LTBT) - It banned nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in the outer space and underwater.
(ii) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,1968 (NPT) - It allowed only the nuclear weapon states to have nuclear weapons and stopped others from acquiring them.
(iii) Strategic Arms Limitation Talks-(I),1972 (SALT-I) - After the talks Soviet leader Brezhnev and US President Nixon signed a Treaty on the limitations of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty) and Interim Agreement on the limitation of strategic offensive arms.
(iv) Strategic Arms Limitation Talks-(II),1979 (SALT-II) - The US President Jimmy Carter and the Soviet leader Brezhnev signed the Treaty on the limitation of strategic offensive arms in Vienna.
(v) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty - (I),1991 (START-I) was signed by Soviet President Gorbachev and the US President George Bush Senior on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms in Moscow .
(vi) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty-(II),1993 (START-II) —The Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the US President George Bush Senior signed on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms in Moscow.

After the second World War, the world was divided into two blocs, i.e., the U.S.A and USSR, i.e., capitalist Vs socialist system.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between the US and the USSR in which both of them came close to nuclear conflict. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.

Cuba was an ally of the Soviet Union and received both diplomatic and financial aid from it. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base.

The Truman Doctrine of 1947 was announced to achieve the containment of the USSR. The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey.

The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was an event caused due to Cold War; the Berlin Wall defined the demarcation between the communist Eastern Germany and the capitalist Western Germany.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955. The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries