CONTEMPORARY WORLD POLITICS
CHAPTER-1
THE COLD
WAR
This chapter has 2 parts
Refer to the notes on my
website.
This series is based upon
the new syllabus.
, INTRODUCTION
Cold war referred to the series of competitions, tensions and
confrontations between US and USSR backed by their respective allies.
The Cold war was not simply a matter of power rivalries, of military
alliances, and of the balance of power. These were accompanied by real
ideological conflict as well, a difference over the most best and
appropriate way of organising political, economic and social life all over
the world.
,• The Western Alliance headed by the US represented the ideology of
liberal democracy and capitalism.
• The Eastern Alliance headed by Soviet Union was committed to the
ideology of socialism and communism.
• It was the war in which the rival states through all means try to control
or gain supremacy at the cost of other.
,
CHAPTER-1
THE COLD
WAR
This chapter has 2 parts
Refer to the notes on my
website.
This series is based upon
the new syllabus.
, INTRODUCTION
Cold war referred to the series of competitions, tensions and
confrontations between US and USSR backed by their respective allies.
The Cold war was not simply a matter of power rivalries, of military
alliances, and of the balance of power. These were accompanied by real
ideological conflict as well, a difference over the most best and
appropriate way of organising political, economic and social life all over
the world.
,• The Western Alliance headed by the US represented the ideology of
liberal democracy and capitalism.
• The Eastern Alliance headed by Soviet Union was committed to the
ideology of socialism and communism.
• It was the war in which the rival states through all means try to control
or gain supremacy at the cost of other.
,
