KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / BIG POWERS AND COLD WAR / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / BIG POWERS AND COLD WAR / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / BIG POWERS AND COLD WAR / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

·      The United States of America, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China were regarded as the big powers since the end of the Second World War (1945). Among them, the United States and the Soviet Union were the Super Powers

·      There was much co-operation among the Big Powers during the War. But later there aroused mutual suspicion among them and Cold War began.

·      The Cold War was a war of words or ideologies and of nerves. This Cold War created great international tension. The Cold War was announced by Winston Churchill in his famous “iron curtain” speech at Fulton, Missourie in 1946.

·      The word ‘Cold War’ was first coined by Bernard Baruch 1946

·      The years 1945-47 are generally taken to mark the beginning of the Cold War

·      The first ‘shot’ of Cold War was fired by Winston Churchill

·      The US decision to intervene in the Greek Civil War may be considered as formally ushering in of the Cold War.

·      The biggest crisis of the early stage of Cold War was the Berlin Blockade which began in 1948

·      The formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in April 1949 was one of the most important aspects of Cold War

·      In 1954 the US brought most of the South East Asian Countries under a common framework modelled on NATO called SEATO

·      The Arab states formed CENTO in 1955. (Central Treaty Organization)

·      The Cold War continued upto the collapse of Soviet Union in 1990

·      HOTLINE is a telecommunication link established since 1963 between the Kremlin (Moscow) and White House (Washington DC, USA) to avoid misunderstanding. Now ‘hotline’ means a direct exclusive line of communication especially for an emergency.

·      Warsaw Pact was a military alliance formed under the Soviet Union against NATO in 1955

·      Now Russia is in a more or less stable condition under the Presidentship of Dmitri Medvedev

 

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / BIG POWERS AND COLD WAR / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES