The Cold War Era
The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union shaped every region of the post-war world, and NCERT Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 1, reconstructs that confrontation. It explains the emergence of two power blocs, the logic of deterrence and arms races, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the way the Cold War played out through alliances such as NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The chapter then turns to the Non-Aligned Movement, India's role within it, and how newly independent states tried to keep their distance from both superpowers.
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