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The Cold War Era - NCERT
OVERVIEWThis chapter provides a backdropto the entire book. The end of theCold War is usually seen as thebeginning of the contemporary erain world politics which is thesubject matter of this book. It is,therefore, appropriate that webegin the story with a discussionof the cold War. The chapter showshow the dominance of twosuperpowers, the United States ofAmerica and the Soviet Union,was central to the cold War. Ittracks the various arenas of theCold War in different parts of theworld. The chapter views the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) as achallenge to the dominance of thetwo superpowers and describesthe attempts by the non-alignedcountries to establish a NewInternational Economic Order(NIEO) as a means of attainingeconomic development andpolitical independence.
two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hir oshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, causing Japan to surr ender. Critics of the US decision to drop the bombs have ar gued that the US knew that Japan was about to surr ender and that it was unnecessary to drop the bombs. They suggest that the US action was intended to stop the Soviet Union fr om ...
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